Minisode: Halftime and Music Hysteria
Send us a text Inspired by NFL's greatest halftime (according to Mandy) - white (women) hysteria and music
Feb 16, 2022•32 min0
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White Feminism: NOW Part 2
Send us a text From the "official" organization of NOW - starting where the WW picked up...and dropped the ball, again.
Feb 12, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 4
White Feminism: National Organization for Women
Send us a text By all prominent historical accounts, the National Organization for Women was founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan and several other women who met together in a hotel room at a women's conference that June. But there's a whole lot more to what happened before that hotel meeting (because, of course there is) that involves many foundational events and women that are not white.
Feb 04, 2022•59 min•Season 3Ep. 3
White Feminism: Betty Friedan
Send us a text The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is widely credited for initiating the "second wave" of feminism. Dissecting the problematic themes of this framework, and Friedan's writing itself, is an important beginning in tackling the overall issues with white feminism.
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 2
White Feminism: Introduction
Send us a text Season Three! Introducing the idea of feminist "waves" - where they came from and why they are problematic.
Jan 15, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 1
bell hooks
Send us a text We sadly note the passing of bell hooks. We encourage you all to read her work and the many online tributes to her. We particularly resonated with this piece by Mikki Kendall. bell hooks will definitely be making more appearances in the next season about white feminism.
Dec 21, 2021•39 min
The Haters: Workplace Reproductive Rights and Robert Bork
Send us a text Forced sterilizations in the workplace and its ties to Robert Bork, failed Regan Supreme Court Justice nominee.
Dec 11, 2021•56 min
Book Club and Roe: An Unfortunate Matchup
Send us a text We didn't know the end of our book club would coincide with the (almost inevitable) roll back of Roe v Wade; but given the material we have covered this season, we should have seen this coming. Read this, now: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/12/the-betrayal-of-roe.html
Dec 04, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Thanksgiving Minisode
Send us a text A Thanksgiving minisode! Come learn about the Godmother of Thanksgiving, Sarah Hale. If you haven't heard about her before, you'll still recognize her immediately. Just remember what we've said in the past about white women commemorating things...
Nov 24, 2021•36 min
The Haters: Book Club Part 4
Send us a text Continuing the discussion of Jennifer Nelson's book, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement. Wrapping up Chapter 3 and moving on to the Young Lords in Chapter 4.
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min
The Haters: Book Club Part 3
Send us a text Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
Nov 05, 2021•55 min
The Haters: Book Club Part 2
Send us a text Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement by Jennifer Nelson. We get deeper into the Redstockings radical feminist group.
Oct 22, 2021•49 min
The Haters: Book Club Part 1
Send us a text Intro to "Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement" by Jennifer Nelson. We learn, again, that there is so much to history that we have no idea about and, once we learn it, we have the typical "ah, shit" response. It's not going out on a limb to say that abortion is a complex issue, but it get so much deeper when we add in race and eugenics and the medical industrial complex, and on and on....so join us again with your seatbelts tightly fastened!...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 4 min
The Haters: Eugenics, Sterilization and Birth Control Research in Puerto Rico
Send us a text The little known history of reproductive testing and experimentation on Puerto Rican women in the early to mid 1900s. So many thanks to the authors and researchers we shout out in this episode. We will get links to their work here soon!
Oct 04, 2021•58 min
The Haters: Interview with Wayne Au
Send us a text An interview with the amazing Wayne Au , social justice and critical education theory expert, discussing eugenics in school testing. This conversation will make you rethink definitions of intelligence, success, educational standards and more! For more of Wayne's work, check out Rethinking Schools and his published books ....
Sep 25, 2021•57 min
The Haters: Eugenics Conversation with Cara Page and Susan Raffo
Send us a text We are joined by Cara Page and Susan Raffo for a conversation about eugenics: where we fit into the deeply embedded and continuing history of eugenics in politics, reproductive rights, legal systems, education, settlement, climate change...truly, truly everything around us is so intricately connected with the ideas we've been discussing in this series. We are grateful to Cara and Susan for helping us process this and encourage you to look more into their work. Register for the Dis...
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Dirty Britches: LuLaRoe, LuLaRich, and a whole lotta white women
Send us a text The best bright-colored-trash-clothes on TV since the Tiger King, with a main serving of white women bullshit. Binge it now !
Sep 14, 2021•16 min
The Haters: Coerced Sterilization from 1970 to Today
Send us a text This sterilization stuff ended, right? Right??? Well, no, of course it didn't. We cover: 1. The case of Madrigal v Quilligan and the documentary No Mas Bebes ( https://vimeo.com/ondemand/nomasbebes ) 2. Sterilization in California's women's prisons and the documentary Belly of the Beast ( https://hdpl.kanopy.com/video/belly-beast ) 3. Native American Sterilization in the 1970s (Compulsory Sterilization of Native Americans and Racist Motivations Behind Public Policies; D. Forbes av...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Dirty Britches: Antivaxx Britches and Bullsh*t
Send us a text We discuss lying-liar-pants Sherri Tenpenny and Mandy unloads her feelings about all of it.
Sep 07, 2021•35 min
The Haters: Unload with Kate Schatz (Lucretia Mott)
Send us a text We're taking a little break from awfulness to catch up with Kate Schatz and learn about the impressive Lucretia Mott! Born in the late 1700s, Lucretia is a reminder that there have always been individuals who didn't just go along with the status quo.
Aug 27, 2021•1 hr
The Haters: Eugenics and Forced Sterilization in the United States
Send us a text Eugenic proponents had to find a way to whittle down the "undesirable" population in the US. Enter: sterilization. Join us to weave together the histories of anti-immigration sentiments, racism, ableism, and more to see how state sanctioned sterilization became mainstream in the early 1900s and continued through the 80s and even today. US policies became an influence for Hitler and his racial sterilization programs in Germany leading up to WWII. Resources and Citations: https://ww...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr
Dirty Britches: Modern Olympic History of Racism and Ties to Eugenics
Send us a text The modern day Olympics has some roots in American eugenics...because, of course it does.
Aug 10, 2021•33 min
The Haters: Eugenics and Reproductive Rights
Send us a text The birth of reproductive rights in England and the US actually started in eugenics with a couple of white women. Join us in learning about Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger, both historically renowned birth control advocates and women's rights icons...with a catch. As usual, "rights" for the "right" people.
Aug 07, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Dirty Britches: The Olympics Gets a Gold Medal in Racism
Send us a text Surprise (or not): The Olympics has a racism problem. This Olympics has seemed particularly egregious in its openly racist policies and procedures, so in this first of a two-part mini, we're outlining some of these problems - from Simone Biles, to Sha'Carri Richardson, to banned substances and swim caps. The Olympics didn't invent racism, but in true competitive spirit, it's at the top of the game. Not sure this is one you want to win, though....
Aug 04, 2021•34 min
The Haters: Eugenic Feminists
Send us a text Our old suffragist friends turn to whiteness once again! In season one, we learned many of the early white suffragists turned their back on women of color in their efforts to secure the vote for themselves. Unsurprisingly, eugenics was also enthusiastically endorsed by many early feminists. Because it turns out, white supremacy has always been a helluva drug. Come learn about Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Victoria Woodhull and get ready for some *drama*! These women were a hot mess...
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Dirty Britches: Balls & Weddings
Send us a text It's a mini, but it turned into a maxi - we said we'd discuss slave labor camp weddings (aka plantation weddings) and we're also throwing in some information about balls. Dances, people, not *those* balls. Don't get too comfortable though, it's still a gross discussion.
Jul 23, 2021•42 min
The Haters: Introduction to Eugenics
Send us a text Mandy takes back the reigns for this laundry session, and there's gonna be several loads to get through. We're talking about eugenics - which is basically the idea that natural selection of the fittest could be accelerated through deliberate selection of the "fittest" and, even uglier, "deselection" of the "non-fit" or "degenerate" subsets of the human population. In this first episode we remind ourselves of our Darwinian evolutionary theory and Mendelian genetics (think peas and ...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 1 min
The Haters: Slavery, Part 6 - Daughters of the Confederacy
Send us a text When the South lost the Civil War, all the white women decided to give up on riding the wave of white privilege and jump on board with reconstruction and restitution, forever ending racial discrimin.....oh who the hell am I kidding! Of course they didn't! Along came the Daughter's of the Confederacy! Defenders of the "lost cause", memory keepers for confederate traitors...I mean, "true patriots", and erectors of statues, -- totally meant to honor their ancestors and not in any way...
Jul 10, 2021•1 hr 8 min
The Haters: Interview with Hasan Jeffries
Send us a text Today's interview is with Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author and professor of history at The Ohio State University. Dr. Jeffries hosts the podcast "Teaching Hard History" and gave a TED talk with nearly 1.8 million views on "Why we must confront the painful parts of US history". We talk about having the curiosity to learn and go beyond the narratives and nostalgia we are typically taught in US history, but also why knowledge is not enough....
Jul 04, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Dirty Britches: Chocolate Shouldn't Be This Dark
Send us a text File this one under things you need to know, but wish you didn't. Your chocolate is dark, and not in a good way. Learn about the history of child slavery and the cocoa industry, and how companies have pledged for years to make changes, but very little has been done.
Jun 30, 2021•27 min
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