Overcoming childhood trauma, with Dana (part 1)
Enjoy part one of my conversation with the incredible Dana, a Filipino immigrant to the US who overcame childhood trauma to make sure that the kids in her life were looked after. She went through so m...
10 Elo 202144min
"Normal" doesn't exist, with non-binary, neurodivergent Daze
Daze used to think they had two options: become a homeschool mother on a farm in the valley where they grew up, or become a nun. Instead, they left their tiny fundamentalist Catholic community and wen...
27 Heinä 202157min
Smashing the patriarchy, with queer feminist sex writer Imungu Kalevera
Imungu Kalevera defies the expectations for Kenyan women in a few ways. She's queer, childfree and a self-proclaimed career feminist, all of which make her a real rarity in majority Christian, sub-Sah...
13 Heinä 202158min
Creating a chosen family, with Barbara Krulik
Barbara Krulik has lived a life! An independent curator and cultural manager, she came of age in New York, where like-minded creatives formed the core of a chosen family that has been there for her th...
29 Kesä 202149min
The personal is political, with Chinese feminist Siyu
Siyu is an only child of China's one-child policy, born in a very traditional part of the country. Yet, her parents never pushed her towards motherhood, and she's been able to lead a modern, internati...
15 Kesä 202154min
Tubal ligation at 23, with Daniela Echeverry
Daniela Echeverry is a 23 year old Colombian woman who recently received permanent birth control. I spoke to her six months after her tubal ligation, and she sounded so happy and healthy, with no regr...
1 Kesä 202135min
Spread your wings, with feminist wellness advocate Doreen Caven
Doreen Caven was raised in a Catholic household in Nigeria, and she was a baby feminist even before she knew what the F-word meant. At an early age, she saw the role she was expected to fill, as a wif...
18 Touko 20211h 1min
Escaping cultural expectations, with Mohita Solanki, an Indian in Australia
Mohita Solanki was born in India, where pronatalism is everywhere. Her parents hoped their daughters would have children one day, but also insisted they get an education - and it’s this education that...
4 Touko 202145min
