#12-22 Kenya Politics and Women … on the eve of new national elections
Zuleikha Hassan is one of the most outspoken members of Kenya’s Parliament. This episode covers several years of her political
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#11-22 The Orgasm Gap … why big pharma created Female Sexual Dysfunction
Dr. Leonore Tiefer gave the keynote address at a conference on The Medicalization of Sex, organized by the Simon Fraser
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#9-22 and #10-22 Wade in the Water, parts 1 and 2
As of 2022 Juneteenth is a US federal holiday. First celebrated by Black communities in Texas, it marks June 19th, 1865,
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#08-22 Leymah Gbowee on Peacemaking … women must make spaces for ourselves in all the negotiations, Nobel Laureate said
Shortly before she was announced as a Nobel Peace Laureate, Leymah Gbowee was on a book tour in the US.
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#07-22 Battered Women’s Defense … Why would she kill her husband?
Speaking to a group of attorneys in Kansas City, forensic psychologist Dr. Lenore Walker explains the development of battered women’s
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#06-22 Let ‘Em Eat Cake! … Marie Antoinette’s famous phrase. If she said it, why?
An “Aural Tapestry.” Food journalist Lizet Kruyff cooks Marie Antoinette’s favourite cake from her childhood – an Austrian kugelhopf, while
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#05-22 WINGS’ 36th Birthday … Recalling an interview from our 20th year
May 13, 2022, is the 36th anniversary of the release of WINGS’ first edition. Much of the early history and
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#04-22 Accounting for whom? … Marilyn Waring vs. the GDP
Waring asserts and documents that the UN-prescribed system of international accounts was designed to justify expenditures on war, that it
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#03-22 Birthkeepers Midwives’ care empowers birthing mothers in remote communities and disaster zones
In September 2021, Ibu Robin Lim addressed a Maternal Gift Economy Rising Salon via Zoom from Indonesia. We share excerpts
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#02-22 Butch Is Not a Dirty Word … Masculine women claim their stripe in the gender rainbow
Women who find themselves “on the masculine side of centre” often experience disapproval, rejection, and pressures to change. Madelaine Imber
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