HeyJared”Great in the Sack”: When Misogyny Leads to Mayhem
Don’t let the name of the podcast fool you...it’s a passive-aggressive poke at the way women seem to be viewed by society: expendable objects to be utilized and quite literally ended, if a perpetrator so chooses..that’s the message that I GET from the lack of action over the…
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"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.4 (opens the original)
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In this final installment of our series on the women of Afghanistan, we examine the country’s trajectory following the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021. Moving past ridiculous initial public relations pledges of moderation, the systematic rollout of restrictive decrees are discussed..from early bans on secondary education and employment, to strict male guardianship (mahram) requirements and the sweeping 2024 Vice and Virtue laws that have basically dictated women’s public presence, dress
The man who fooled the world: How the anti-vax movement came to be (opens the original)
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Helloooo! I decided to do a small sidequest about the antivax ”movent”. I mean...how did a fabricated 12-person case study published in the medical journal called The Lancet kick off decades of modern vaccine panic?! In this episode, we take a deep dive into the history of inoculation, from early variolation and state-enforced mandates to the erosion of institutional trust in late modernity. We discuss the investigative reporting behind disgraced doctor Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 study, uncovering
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.3 (opens the original)
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Was the 20-year U.S. occupation a humanitarian rescue mission for women, or was it just a lie to push an agenda of military interventionIn? Hint: Embedded Feminism. In part 3, we look at the 2001 US invasion up through the 2021 fall of Kabul...contrasting the lives of rural women surviving drone strikes in Helmand and Wardak with urban women fighting for education and aid in Kabul. We also examine the reality of ”ghost soldiers,” NGO failures, and the story of Rukhshana. In this episode: The urb
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.2 (opens the original)
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In this episode, we take a look at the brutal reality of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s first reign from 1996 to 2001, through a historical and feminist lens. Moving past the savioristic and imperial themes, we look at the ground-level human cost through the archives of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) and investigative reporting like Beneath the Veil, and Unholy War. We trace the rise of the Taliban, their war crimes and alliance with al-Qaeda, the devas
"Throw reason to the dogs..": Gender Apartheid and the Erasure of Afghan Women, pt.1 (opens the original)
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We’ve all seen those viral internet photos from the 1960s and ’70s, amiright? Afghan women in mini-skirts…walking freely in the streets. But what do those photos actually say…who actually got to experience that level of freedom? In Part 1 of our deep dive into Afghanistan, we are going back into history. We track who holds power at what time periods, and which way the pendulum swings according to those two things: more towards freedom…or rural uprising? From the rise of ancient tribal codes all
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