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Send us Fan Mail Interview with Leah Slick-Driscoll.  Leah is a member of the Meskwaki Nation of Iowa (Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa) and is also Winnebago from Nebraska. She received her B.A.s in History and Social Studies Education from the University of Iowa in 2009. She received her M.A. in Social Studies Education from the University of Iowa in 2014. She is honored to teach 9-1...

Send us Fan Mail Weighing in on the Katie Britt response to the SOTU address and how she ties in to weaponized white motherhood

Send us Fan Mail While we all realize the latest Alabama ruling on IVF is a reproductive rights issue, we may not have thought through the deeper issues of intersectional feminism that run through this controversy. Today we're discussing how white women are showing up in very white-womany ways for IVF.

Send us Fan Mail We're back!!! Sorry we disappeared for a moment there. But don't worry, we're still here, we're still friends and we're still down for exposing white women and how we enforce and support white supremacy. We're discussing the weaponization of motherhood this season and starting with a group of modern day Daughter's of the Confederacy: Mom's f...

Send us Fan Mail Discussion of the article "It's not White Fragility, it's White Flammability" by Sun Yung Shin on Medium. Also mentions: "Is 'Imposter Syndrome' Just for White Women". Find out more about Sun Yung Shin on her website .  There's a t-shirt I always see advertised to me on Instagram that says "Not fragile like a flower, fragile like a...

Send us Fan Mail Chat with Ruby Hamad about her best selling book, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color.  Ruby Hamad   White Tears/Brown Scars  

Send us Fan Mail Whew....last time we said we were back, but now we're really back. For sure. Probably. :)Join us for Part 2 of our discussion of Ruby Hamad's amazing book, White Tears/Brown Scars.

Send us Fan Mail Season 3 Book Club: White Tears/Brown Scars - How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color, by Ruby Hamad. Part one of Hamad's book covers "The Setup" of the white/brown binary and the creation of the "damsel in distress" from the colonial era to current times. Listen in and follow the links below to buy a copy of the book. Hamad's in depth research and...

Send us Fan Mail The rise and fall of the Girl Boss

Send us Fan Mail Katy tells us what we really want, what we really, really want...about girl power and what we can take away from pop culture activism.

Send us Fan Mail Mini-rage session and lessons to hold on to.

Send us Fan Mail Katy takes us through the history of the early 90s white feminist punk rockers known as the Riot Grrl Movement.  Manifesto

Send us Fan Mail It was going to be a minisode, but honestly there is just too much!  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/is-ginni-thomas-a-threat-to-the-supreme-court https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-ginni-thomas-meeting.html https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/ginni-thomas-att...

Send us Fan Mail This history of the fight for equal pay & the gender pay gap - what it encompasses and what it leaves out.

Send us Fan Mail These women don't deserve much of our time, but the lesson that it always helps to be a white lady is reinforced in a hard core way with the stories of Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes. Yet, somehow, it's seldom mentioned that their whiteness was integral to their fraud. 

Send us Fan Mail The ERA finally got through Congress, with surprising ease, in 1972. It was then quickly ratified by 30 states...and then, about to cross the threshold into an adopted amendment, it died. Why? Well, that's where Phyllis comes in.

Send us Fan Mail Kate Schatz is back to bring in some examples of positive white ladies deviating from the patriarchal, white supremacist norm and how we can learn from their lives and work. When we talked to Jessie Daniels a few episodes back we noted that many of the non-shitty white women we find in history happened to be queer women. We asked Kate to highlight a few of those women in this epis...

Send us Fan Mail You're not going to be shocked, but you'll still be horrified, if you didn't know the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act had some of the same background shenanigans going on from the early suffrage days (we're looking at you Susan B). White women always watching out for white women, even when it's not about them... NYT Article: How Women Got in on the Ci...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone agrees that people shouldn't be discriminated against based on their sex, don't they? Maybe they do, maybe they don't, maybe they shouldn't?? Turns out it's a bit complicated as we start discussing the ERA!

Send us Fan Mail It's Women's History Month, but have you ever wondered what the history of WHM is itself? Safe bet: white women have something to do with it!

Send us Fan Mail Interview with Jessie Daniels, Professor and author of Nice White Ladies: The Truth About White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It. Jessie Daniels is a professor at Hunter College in New York. She is an internationally recognized expert on Internet manifestatons of racism. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, and Newsweek. Her previous...

Send us Fan Mail Current day NOW controversies - Katy brings us up to date on the female fuckery happening in NOW the past several years. White liberal women have a long way to go in dismantling their own white supremacy. 

Send us Fan Mail Inspired by NFL's greatest halftime (according to Mandy) - white (women) hysteria and music

Send us Fan Mail From the "official" organization of NOW - starting where the WW picked up...and dropped the ball, again.

Send us Fan Mail 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....