The Pink Patriarchy: When Feminism Starts Policing Women
This episode explores the "pink patriarchy": how mainstream feminist institutions, shaped by funding, respectability politics, and carceral approaches, end up excluding sex workers, trans women, incar...
20 Mar 12min
Feminism Isn’t Just One Thing: Second-Wave Feminism, When the Personal Became Political
Second-wave feminism emerged in the 1960s not because first-wave feminism had “finished the job,” but because its victories exposed how much work remained undone. Women could vote, in theory. They cou...
18 Mar 8min
Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: When Feminism Stops Asking Who Pays the Price
Feminist support for the Nordic Model is often rooted in clear, articulated goals: reducing violence, limiting exploitation, and challenging gendered power imbalances. These goals are not in dispute. ...
13 Mar 6min
Feminism Isn’t Just One Thing: First Wave Feminism Explained
Understanding the different waves of feminism matters because feminism is not a single idea, strategy, or moral position; it is a long-running argument about power, inclusion, and what real change ent...
11 Mar 9min
The Pink Patriarchy: When Feminism Becomes a Brand Instead of a Liberation Project
There’s a version of feminism that looks great on Instagram. She wears a pussyhat. She has a TED Talk cadence. She speaks fluently in the language of empowerment, choice, and women supporting women - ...
6 Mar 9min
Not Your Mama’s Feminism: The Policy in Practice - Survivor Voices
Survivors are everywhere in anti-trafficking rhetoric. They are quoted in reports, paraded at conferences, featured in congressional testimony, glossy publications, and donor-facing videos, and routin...
4 Mar 12min
Weekend Hot Takes: Wait… We’re Doing War With Iran Now? (WTF Edition)
Apparently we woke up this weekend and the world collectively decided: sure, let’s add another war to the schedule. One minute everyone is arguing about grocery prices and student loan payments, and t...
2 Mar 6min
Not Your Mama’s Feminism: Sex Workers Have Always Been Here
There is a persistent fiction at the heart of modern feminist policy debates: the idea that sex workers are a new complication, an inconvenient edge case, or a group that can be spoken about rather th...
27 Feb 6min
