Nancy has spent her career working towards social justice and the realisation of universal human rights in fields ranging from mental health and poverty eradication to refugee protection. Until July she was the CEO of the charity Stonewall and as such worked as part of the movement in the UK and around the world. She is now helping small start up organisations in the same fields.We talked about where the backlash comes from, what the solution is (if any), the historical evidence of backlash agai...
Feb 20, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 5
For today's episode, we sat down with Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson, Director of the Women’s Budget Group, to discuss women and money. The UK Women’s Budget Group is the UK’s leading feminist economics think tank that provides evidence and proposes policy alternatives for a gender-equal economy. They are the link between academia, the women’s voluntary sector and progressive economics think tanks. In this episode we talk about the financial repercussions of unpaid are, the impact of austerity on gende...
Jan 17, 2024•52 min•Season 2Ep. 4
On today's episode we are joined by Laura Danger, a licensed educator, certified coach and creator from Chicago who has been teaching and facilitating for over 12 years. Laura, also known by her social media handle as thatdarnchat , uses her incredibly successful social presence to empower overwhelmed caregivers to value their own time and the priceless care labour they provide. She popularised the term Weaponised Incompetence (referring to people, mainly men, who deliberately do a task poorly i...
Nov 20, 2023•56 min•Season 2Ep. 3
On today's episode we're joined by Andrea Sempértegui, Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College and a member of the anti-extractive collective Comundisis based in Quito, Ecuador. She focuses on indigenous politics, environmental and feminist movements, struggles over territory and natural resource extraction and decolonial thought in Latin America. Her essays have appeared in the likes of New York Review of Books and Verso. We delve into the importance of women in the climate struggle,...
Sep 15, 2023•57 min
Welcome to Series 2 of Discourse: The Grabbing Back Podcast! We are so excited to be starting this season with such a fantastic episode with guests Julia Serano and Talia Mae Bettcher. We discuss, amongst many ideas, the perceptions and readings of our bodies, the cultural specificity of boundaries and how they tend to affect women more than men and how femininity is considered quote-unquote artificial in a similar way to transness, and how dangerous that can be. Trigger warnings: transphobia an...
Aug 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Renowned feminist, activist, historian and theorist who has been key int bringing female voice into visible history. A life long activist, she has campaigned on issues from unionising women, abortion, nurseries and the Vietnam War and has always been an advocate for grass roots activism. She helped to make the phrase “the personal is political” popular. She is best known her contributions the Women’s Liberation Movement, which drove feminism in the 1970s and brought us feminism as we know it tod...
Jan 18, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This month we are delving into and explaining Intersectional Theory through the lens of Kimberlé Crenshaw, the American civil rights advocate and leading scholar who introduced it. Last month we considered how the concept of ‘intersectionality’ has deep roots. This month we’re narrowing down and getting really specific about the term ‘intersectionality’ as defined by the woman who coined it. The term is widely used now, but had quite a specific meaning when Crenshaw introduced it as a framework ...
Sep 01, 2022•57 min
This month we are focusing on the Roots of Intersectionality and instead of one big conversation, we wanted to really reflect the diversity of voices and opinions that emerged with early African American feminists. We have picked six extracts of text by some writers of the time, and invited on six guests to share their reflections on them. There’s so much richness of thought here and so we’ve divided this month’s episode into three mini episodes, so you can reflect on different pieces in your ow...
Jun 28, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This month we are focusing on the Roots of Intersectionality and instead of one big conversation, we wanted to really reflect the diversity of voices and opinions that emerged with early African American feminists. We have picked six extracts of text by some writers of the time, and invited on six guests to share their reflections on them. There’s so much richness of thought here and so we’ve divided this month’s episode into three mini episodes, so you can reflect on different pieces in your ow...
Jun 28, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This month we are focusing on the Roots of Intersectionality and instead of one big conversation, we wanted to really reflect the diversity of voices and opinions that emerged with early African American feminists. We have picked six extracts of text by some writers of the time, and invited on six guests to share their reflections on them. There’s so much richness of thought here and so we’ve divided this month’s episode into three mini episodes, so you can reflect on different pieces in your ow...
Jun 28, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to part one of our "Waves" episodes everyone! This is month one of season one here at Grabbing Back, THE place for all things feminist theory and good chat. We’re chatting to the amazing Gillian Love about ‘the waves of feminism’; when were they, what were they, did they even exist and what should we, as modern feminists learn or critique about them. Content warning : discussions touched on homophobia and transphobia - without graphic details. References and recommendations This is a lis...
May 13, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to part two of our "Waves" episodes everyone! This is month one of season one here at Grabbing Back, THE place for all things feminist theory and good chat. We’re chatting to the amazing Gillian Love about ‘the waves’; when were they, what were they, did they even exist and what should as modern feminists learn or critique about them. Content warning : discussions touched on homophobia and transphobia - without graphic details. References and recommendations This is a list of some of the...
May 12, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Grabbing Back has returned hot from the presses with its latest discourse episode. Be a fly on the wall and listen to our creators talk about ownership of language, space, swimming pool lanes, bodies, racial identity, and the feminist movement. Who owns those things? Do we? Should we? How can we?This audio piece was created as part of Grabbing Back's theme month, where our creators focused on the word "OWN." Six people - some who knew each other, some who didn’t, got together in a (zoom) room an...
Dec 02, 2021•54 min
