#10-23 Two-Spirit Women Speak Out … reviving a title of respect
The English term “two-spirit” is attributed to Cree Elder Myra Laramee, who proposed it in 1990 at the Third Annual Inter-tribal
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#09-23 Intersex Law in Kenya … Progress has happened, but it’s slow
Darlan Rukih’s mother tried to keep her child’s intersex condition a secret, but eventually it came out. Darlan has become
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#08-23 Globalizing Feminism … Can the subalterns speak?
Excerpts from a keynote address to the US National Women’s Studies Association, by the world-famous scholar of deconstructionism Gayatri Spivak.
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#07-23 UN. Aid, and Sexual Abuse: Investigations fail, lawyers say
From the podcast series Gender at Work, feminists with experience in United Nations and aid organizations explain how policies to stop
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#06-23 Homecare Worker Protest … Working 24 hours but only paid for 13 is slavery
Audio from an April 2023 rally in New York City with homecare workers and their supporters protesting 24-hour shifts paid
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#05-23 Adrienne Rich Remembered … A canonized poet broke through into feminism and politics
The late Adrienne Rich was a bridge between the near-invisibility of women writers, feminist writers, and lesbian writers, and their
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#51-22 Guatemalan Widows Rise … after genocide against indigenous people
Massive displacement and genocide have been inflicted on indigenous communities in Guatemala for centuries. The women you’ll hear today experienced
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#50-22 Iraq Invasion +20 … How US control affected women’s rights
Yanar Mohammed is co-founder and Chair of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq. Founded in 2003, OWFI provides shelters,
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#49-22 Reproductive Slavery … From the 19th to the 21st Centuries
“The Long Struggle to Abolish Reproductive Slavery” is a lecture by Dorothy E. Roberts – a professor of both Law
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#48-22 LGBTQI+ in Kenya … Supreme Court victory is both a win and a loss
After ten years of appeals, Kenya’s Supreme Court ruled in February 2023 that organizations with words like lesbian and gay
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