"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.4
In this final installment of our series on the women of Afghanistan, we examine the country's trajectory following the Taliban's return to power in August 2021. Moving past ridiculous initial public r...
30 Aug 56min
The man who fooled the world: How the anti-vax movement came to be
Helloooo! I decided to do a small sidequest about the antivax "movement". I mean...how did a fabricated 12-person case study published in the medical journal The Lancet kick off decades of modern vacc...
20 Aug 55min
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.3
Was the 20-year U.S. occupation a humanitarian rescue mission for women, or was it just a lie to push an agenda of military interventionIn? Hint: Embedded Feminism. In part 3, we look at the 2001 US ...
6 Aug 48min
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.2
In this episode, we take a look at the reality of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban's first reign from 1996 to 2001, through a historical and feminist lens. Moving past the savioristic and imperia...
23 Jul 53min
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.1
We’ve all seen those viral internet photos from the 1960s and ’70s, amiright? Afghan women in mini-skirts…walking freely in the streets. But what do those photos actually say…who actually got to exper...
9 Jul 1h 14min
The Evolution of Exploitation: The cases of Marita Verón & Kristen Galvan
Human trafficking has a long history. It began with what we know as slavery, but as the world changed, the structure of exploitation evolved to fit that environment. When most people think of modern s...
16 Jun 1h 10min
Online "rape academies" & the digital age of misogyny
In this episode, we investigate the wild intersection of systemic violence against women & girls, and modern technology. We begin with the landmark Gisele Pelicot case in France, breaking down the co...
26 Mai 1h 3min
The CIA's Iran-Contra Affair, the crack epidemic, & the women who paid the price
The War on Drugs didn’t start in the streets; it started in the shadows of the offices of the CIA. This episode traces the timeline from the late 70s up through the late 90s, connecting the dots betwe...
6 Mai 1h 3min
