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Nothing like a holiday to turn up the heat on hard conversations. In this Season 2 Finale, Kassia and Sabrina reflect on conversations they've had with family and friends who don't necessarily agree with their points of view, including:
Sabrina's history of heated arguments with her uncle and how they finally managed to have a calm conversation about abortionKassia's tendency to come in a little too hot with family members who disagree on humans rights issues like vaccinationThe tragic moment in 2021 when gun violence hit too close to home and how Kassia is trying to find the human side of every storyLike what you hear and want more? Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world.
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We’ve never met a woman without a complex relationship to her own hair. Shorter, longer, curlier, straighter, lighter, darker, up, down. For many women—especially Black women—hair can be a complicated thing.
Founder of Parting the Roots, Simone Wright is working to educate people and organizations on the history, politics, and significance of Black hair and the Black Canadian identity. She joins Sabrina to talk about:
• The historical importance of Black hair in pre-colonial Africa, how the slave trade suppressed this connection, and the ways non-Black communities still attempt to control Black hair today.
• The role outside forces and intersectionality play in a woman’s relationship with her hair
• Her journey to embrace natural hair and the response she’s received personally and professionally
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130 years. That's how long it will take to achieve gender equity at the highest levels of global politics. Around the world, women are still less likely to be encouraged to run for public office at every level - this starts with what we tell young girls about what is possible and ultimately influences women's lack of confidence to step into the race. Erin Loos Cutraro founded She Should Run to give women from all walks of life the tools they need to run for public office. In this re-release from season one, Erin joins Kassia and Sabrina to talk about:
• The double standards that women endure when running for public office
• Why representation matters and what changes when women hold elected positions
• How she manages to remain hopeful about the future of our democracy
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Contrary to what society would like us to believe, not every woman wants to be a mother. Some women regret the choice altogether.
Orna Donath was only 16 years old when knew with certainty that she never wanted to be a mother. In the decades that followed she never waivered in that decision. Today, Orna is a sociologist and author in Tel Aviv, Israel. In this rerelease of one of our most beloved season one episodes, she joins Kassia and Sabrina to talk about:
• Her personal experience of the stigma society places on women who choose not to mother
• Her thought-provoking research on women who deeply regret their decision to have children
• How we can begin to untangle womanhood from motherhood
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Every year, one in five women in the United States struggles with mental health. Income disparities, caregiving responsibilities, higher rates of poverty and violence are just a few of the risk factors that leave women especially susceptible to chronic stress.
Dr. Beth Ricanati is no stranger to burnout. She was the mother of three children and a physician working full time when she realized she needed to prioritize self-care. At the recommendation of a friend, she turned to baking bread as a way to build ritual and community into her weekly routine. Dr. Ricanati joins Sabrina to discuss:
The mental health crisis in America and why women are more likely to experience chronic stress than men
Why creating meaningful rituals with our hands can benefit mental health
The need to shift away from self-care toward community care to address the underlying causes of women’s mental health issues
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In honor of Sexual Health Month and our recent conversation with Zoe Mendelson, Sabrina and Kassia are opening up - like really, intimately opening up - about sexual health. We're walking through Zoe’s book, Pussypedia, discussing some of its more shocking takeaways, and our relationships with our mothers who were often our own source of education when we were young girls. In this no-holds-barred conversation, we end up talking about:
• Not soaping your slit and other things we all wish we knew about sexual health
• Masturbation and how much pleasure we each might want
• Sex toys, what to call them, and who's never gone shopping for one
More personal than ever before, Sabrina and Kassia bear all including a quite shocking admission. Like what you hear and want more? Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world.Breaking Glass is a production of Evoke Media, a nonprofit organization that exists in order to elevate the people and stories working to make the world a more unified and equitable place. To join a global conversation about gender equality:
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When Zoe Mendelson first googled squirting, she had no idea the rabbit hole of sexual education she was about to go down. The internet was riddled with inconsistent information and even experts disagreed on some of the simpler questions she was curious about.
Why we need to take back a more gender and organ inclusive use of the word pussyThe role of the patriarchy in disinformation around people's pussiesBuilding Pussypedia - a free, bilingual encyclopedia of the pussy that aims to address the lack of quality, accessible information about our bodies on the internet.
An information designer by training, Zoe became passionate about curating a comprehensive platform for accessible and inclusive sex education. She has since dedicated the better part of a decade to learning about, writing about, and talking about pussies. She joins Sabrina Merage Naim to talk about:We also discuss the launch of her new book, Pussypedia. Like what you hear and want more? Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world.
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Around the world, 1 in 3 women experiences physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. In India, where a woman is raped every fifteen minutes, the outlook is especially dire.
ElsaMarie D'Silva walked away from a twenty-year career in aviation to launch SafeCity - the world's foremost crowdmapping platform for gender-based violence. An entrepreneur, activist, and survivor, she joins Kassia to talk about:
The various forms of gender-based violence—including physical, sexual, and psychological— and the prevalence of it in IndiaWhat happens when survivors have safe spaces to share their storiesHow stories and data can empower women and their communities to take action.Like what you hear and want more? Sign up for our biweekly newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world.
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Did you know the word “homosexual” didn’t appear in the Bible until 1946? Neither did we. And neither did Kathy Baldock until a gay friend said, “Even God doesn’t love me,” and Kathy, a heterosexual, practicing Christian, went looking for answers.
Today, Kathy is an author (Walking The Bridgeless Canyon), LGBTQ advocate, international speaker and educator. She has done more research than almost anyone in the world on the origins of Christianity's discrimination against the LGBTQ community. She joins Sabrina to discuss:
• How two words became combined and mistranslated to “homosexual” in the 1946 Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible
• The ways in which the Church's relationship to the LGBTQ community has evolved
• How an antiquated understanding of procreation, among other things, led to gender discrimination in the Church
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Women account for less than 10% of leadership positions in governments around the world. At this rate, we will not achieve gender equality in these highest positions of power for 130 years.
Marissa Conway is not surprised. Neither intimidated nor impressed by the foreign policy sector dominated by older, white men, Marissa has had a front row seat to the patriarchal systems in which policies are made. A vivacious young analyst and activist, Marissa made a name for herself founding the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. Based in England, she has supported political campaigns,,consulted governments around the world and joins Kassia to discuss:
• How to deconstruct patriarchal power dynamics in foreign policy
• The ways she sees governments, capitalism, and Western ideals co-opting feminism
• What feminism means to her and whether or not it can be achieved without women in positions of power
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Despite the influence of civil rights icons Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, their mother's stories were all but erased from history. That is until Dr. Anna Malaika-Tubbs came along.
While pregnant with her first child, Dr. Mailka-Tubbs wrote the award-winning book The Three Mothers: How the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. Her original research details the lives and influence these women had, and is a catalyst for conversation about the many ways we continue to undervalue the work of mothers. She joins Sabrina to discuss:
• The ways in which American society could better celebrate and support mothers
• How she refused to be erased as the wife of a prominent politician
• Her experience as a Black woman raising young children
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Abortion saves lives. Abortion is healthcare. Abortion should never have been politicized.
But it was. And in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, when we're mostly full of anger and sorrow, we really need glimmers of hope. One such spark can be found in a place one might expect fervent opposition to abortion: Ireland. In this rerelease of one of our very first episodes, Ailbhe joins Sabrina & Kassia to share how she organized a national movement to legalize abortion in Ireland. They talk about:
• Her experience growing up gay in a conservative Catholic community
• How she navigated oppressive cultural gender expectations
• Why the Irish campaign for reproductive rights was ultimately successful
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Many double standards exist for women and men, but perhaps none as ubiquitously as how they use their voice. A loud little girl is called bossy, a bold assertive woman is called a bitch. The same leadership qualities that we celebrate in men we often silence in women and Phumzile van Damme has experienced this at every turn of her career.
Elected to serve as a Member of Parliament for South Africa at the age of 31, van Damme went on to hold positions of National Assembly Whip, Shadow Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Committee, and National Spokesperson of her party. She is one of the most accomplished young, Black, female politicians in South Africa and yet the relentless pressure to silence her eventually led to her resignation in 2021. She joins Kassia to talk about:
• Her political rise and her reputation for defying tradition and speaking out on behalf of gender equity
• Her struggle with self-confidence and imposter syndrome
• The attempts of organized gendered disinformation campaigns to undermine her political influence
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Ever been called an angry feminist? Us too.
Soraya Chemaly is a writer, speaker, and activist who studies the many reasons women have to be angry, and why they're called bitches, hot-headed, crazy feminists when they are. She is an award-winning activist, the best-selling author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, and director and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project. She joins Sabrina to discuss:
• The reasons women have to be angry, from microaggressions to macro-level sexism
• Why anger is actually one of the most hopeful, forward-thinking, and powerful emotions
• Why men and women are conditioned to experience and display emotion differently
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We’re releasing a bonus episode from 1972! Just kidding. We’re releasing a bonus episode from 2022 about what to do now that the United States is about to revoke the rights of millions of people with uteruses. Sabrina reaches back out to human rights attorney and previous guest, Julie Kay to talk about:
• What this legal ruling might mean for other rights
• Which interventions are and are not likely to work once Roe v. Wade is overturned
• How we keep going, keep fighting, and strategically channel our rage
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It's not often that a poet's first paid piece of writing jumps to the top of the New York Times bestseller lists. Kate Baer's did. Her first book, What Kind of Woman was published in 2020 and followed shortly by a book of erasure poetry, I Hope This Finds You Well (2021). Both tackle the underlying treatment of women and mothers in modern society.
Even if you haven't picked up one of her books (yet), you've probably seen her work, which regularly goes viral online. She joins Kassia to talk about:
• The slow burn of being lost, overwhelmed, and undervalued as a woman and mother
• The unreasonable expectations that society places on women and the support it fails to provide
• The unglamorous realities of writing (hint: lots of misogyny, failures, emotional labor, and some very expensive childcare)
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In a country that criminalizes homosexuality, Kaz is an openly queer individual. Bisexual, lesbians, and transgender persons are not recognized by the Kenyan constitution and yet she lives openly and authentically while encouraging others to do the same.
Kaz started her career as a singer and performer. In 2006, she won the Kora Award for The Most Promising Female Artist in Africa and was dubbed the Kenyan Queen of Soul. Today she is the host of The Spread, a sex-positive podcast that creates a safe space for people to understand their sexuality and learn to live confidently in awareness of their sexual identity. She joins Sabrina to talk about:
• Her experience being sexually abused as a child
• How she recovered from revenge porn as a young adult
• What we can all learn from the bondage, discipline, dominance and submission and sadomasochism (BDSM) about consent
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Five kids between the two of them, Sabrina and Kassia know a thing or two about pregnancy. From infertility to miscarriage, morning sickness to stretch marks these ladies could write a real epic. That's why they're pulling back the curtains - not as experts on any one of these issues, but as mothers and friends who want to dispel some of the ways society tends to sugar coat pregnancy. We're talking about:
The first trimester and the burden of being expected to endure it in secretMiscarriage and why it does us a great disservice to not talk about it more candidlyInfertility, vulnerability, and the honest desire to hold the cards close to our chestWe're getting real personal in this episode, showing up for one another to celebrate big news and recount hard losses and to invite you all to start talking. Like what you hear and want more? Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world.
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Comprehensive sex education is not standardized in schools across Arab countries and more than 40% of pregnancies are unintended.
Providing OB-GYN care in conservative Arab cultures where many women are taught to be ashamed of their bodiesTurning to social media to build a platform for sex education that is not otherwise available in schoolsHow women, men, and authorities are responding
Since moving from Chicago to Dubai in 2014, Dr. Salem has defied tradition and delivered sex education to women through her OB-GYN clinic as well as through her Instagram account. With more than 20k followers, she answers questions, busts myths, and provides advice to women who don't otherwise have access to sex ed. She joins Kassia to talk about:Like what you hear and want more? Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world.
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Reproductive freedom is in grave danger across the United States. Experts predict that it is not a question of if Roe will be overturned this year, but rather when.
Kitty’s 1992 appearance before the U.S. Supreme CourtJulie’s successful argument before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human RightsWhat we need to do to protect reproductive rights across the country when Roe is overturned
Kathryn Kolbert is one of the most influential reproductive rights attorneys in the country. Julie Kay is a passionate human rights attorney who came up under the mentorship of Kitty at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Collectively, these women are two of the most aggressive and accomplished defenders of reproductive rights around the world. They join Sabrina Merage Naim to talk about:We also discuss their newest book, Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom. Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world.
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