Light Work by Dear Patriarchy

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 6 of Series 2, we're sharing our recent guest spot on the "Things That Keep Us Up At Night" podcast with Abby DesJardien. We spoke about a variety of topics ranging from why we do what we do, the Patriarchy and activism, the weight of expectation on working mothers (because a...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 5 of Series 2 where we are talking about when to call it. We start by breaking down what a toxic workplace is and what some major red flags are that you're working in one before diving into reasons why some women may feel that they need to quit a job they still really love. We discuss...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 4 of Series 2 where we start by talking about global racial injustice, specifically what’s happening in the U.S.A. & the U.K. We talk about the unending police shootings in North America, the Sewell Report in the UK, racist Dr. Seuss books and how disappointing it is to see so many soci...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 3 of Series 2, where we explore joy. We examine some of the reasons why women struggle to retain and engender joy in their lives and discuss how we personally feel joy is lost during the day as a working woman. We talk about the ways in which people and pressures can strip joy from daily li...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 2 of Series 2 where we dive into a topic we're deeply passionate about: Gaslighting. We discuss how we've encountered this in a multitude of ways in both our personal and professional lives as well as how women with prior experiences of sexual or physical violence may be more susc...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Series 2 of the podcast! We jump right into the deep end with our discussion about how current events (femicide, mass shootings) are all directly tied to anger, specifically male anger. We dive into how toxic masculinity and White privilege feeds our global problem with male anger before applying i...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 20, the finale of series 1! This is our series recap of all the discussions we had along with some background behind each conversation and further fleshing out of some of our previous discussions. We hope you've enjoyed the journey so far as much as we have, we look forward to our next...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 19, one for the working mamas out there! We recorded this episode on the 21st of February, the anniversary of Malcolm X's assassination and John Lewis' birthday, so we start the conversation talking about their impact, as well as Gloria Richardson's, on our lives. We move on...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍                                         *** TW: Sexual Assault/Sexual Abuse *** Welcome to Episode 18: It's Britney, bitch! Or rather, it's the truth about what happens to many (if not all) young girls on their journey to womanhood. We dive into some triggering topics in this week's episode, in...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 17 which is a purely anecdotal session, no research or statistics on this one, just an intimate discussion about mental health, religion and the ways in which self doubt insidiously finds its way through any amount of armour. Jenni & Lisa discuss how a recent interaction in the process...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 16 where we briefly touch on trolling & cancel culture before jumping into our main subject of why being a "good girl" gets you nowhere. Jenni shares a recent experience where she was forced to evaluate how the rules she was taught as a girl were  vastly different to what boys...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 15 where we discuss a tweet that was sent to us detailing how women represented the total US job losses in December 2020. The article and statistics behind this tweet as well as the global statistics we found outlining that women are (once again) the biggest losers in the job market due to...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 14 where we discuss the burnout of nearly a year living in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic combined with the political and social upheaval that is taking place around the world. We begin with a conversation about the trope of the angry feminist and how it has personally affected us before...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 13 where we go off on the popular hashtag #notallmen and what it actually means when it's said in relation to the sharing of women's lived experiences. We talk about how using this phrase centres men in women's issues (a common tactic of the Patriarchy) and discuss where the...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 12, our first discussion on systemic racism and how it impacts the working women, specifically those from BIPOC/BAMER communities. We discuss the US & UK statistics on the endemic racial inequity within the corporate world and read several narratives highlighting the experiences of BIPO...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 11 where we end 2020 by burning down the house on women taking up space. We dive into how the historical pressure on women to shrink, expand and, ultimately, shrink again has a direct correlation to our socio-political enfranchisement. We discuss why women apologise far more then men and wh...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 10 where we discuss the burn out many women feel around the festive season, especially with the added stressor of navigating the holidays during a global pandemic. We talk about emotional labour/labor, mental load and how our culture of “more is better” is grinding us all down. We delve int...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 9 where we do a deep dive into 3 key terms we discussed in Part 1 of the Boardroom: Mansplaining, Hepeating and Imposter Syndrome. We talk about where these terms originated and their background, how they present in the Boardroom and our personal experience with each of them. We finish up w...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 8 where we dive into the Boardroom and how it's keeping anyone who isn't a White man at arm's length. We go over the current statistics for diverse representation in the boardroom (spoiler alert: they're abysmal), how White women have historically been used as the "...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 7 where we're taking a moment to feed back on some of the interactions we've had around our Boys Club episode, and other past episodes as well, as well as "clear the air" about what the Dear Patriarchy podcast is and what we're trying to accomplish. We hope you enjo...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 6 where we dive into Boys Club: What it is and the ways in which women and other groups that have been marginalised within our patriarchal social construct may experience it in the workplace. We talk about how to recognise if your own organisation has a Boys Club culture and share our perso...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 5 where we finish what we started in our last episode by unpacking how the Patriarchy affects women's views on, and relationships with, other women. We delve into why record numbers of White women in America voted for Donald Trump and how the behaviours & beliefs that lead so many...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 TW: Contains discussions of miscarriage, stillbirth, foetal/fetal demise and abortion from 40:00 - 43:30 Welcome to Episode 4 where we open up the densely packed topic of what the Patriarchy is and how it impacts us all on a daily basis. We discuss how it is believed the Patriarchy came into being, how it now...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 3 where we dive into the burn out we're all experiencing at work and home, which is being dramatically escalated by the global pandemic and political upheaval taking place in many countries around the world. We discuss the impact gender and race has on individual burn out levels, what...

If this episode is resonating with you, send us a message - we’d love to hear from you 🤍 Welcome to Episode 2 where we do a deep-dive into sexual harassment in the workplace. We discuss our own experiences with workplace harassment (sexual and otherwise), how it has affected us and explore the current statistics for sexual harassment across  different groups, including BIPOC / BAMER, LGBTQ+ and d...