Weighing in on the Katie Britt response to the SOTU address and how she ties in to weaponized white motherhoodBy Katy & Mandy

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.By Katy & Mandy

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 for Libe…

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 bomb" with a half-…

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 ScarsBy Katy & Mandy

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.By Mandy & Katy

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 a…

The rise and fall of the Girl BossBy Katy & Mandy

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.By Katy & Mandy

Mini-rage session and lessons to hold on to.By Katy & Mandy

Katy takes us through the history of the early 90s white feminist punk rockers known as the Riot Grrl Movement. ManifestoBy Katy & Mandy

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.c…

This history of the fight for equal pay & the gender pay gap - what it encompasses and what it leaves out.By Mandy & Katy

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.By Mandy & Katy

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.By Katy & Mandy

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 …

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 o…

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!By Mandy & Katy

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!By Katy & Mandy

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, F…

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.By Katy & Mandy

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

From the "official" organization of NOW - starting where the WW picked up...and dropped the ball, again.By Katy & Mandy

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 wo…

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.By Katy & Mandy

Season Three! Introducing the idea of feminist "waves" - where they came from and why they are problematic.By Mandy & Katy

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.

Forced sterilizations in the workplace and its ties to Robert Bork, failed Regan Supreme Court Justice nominee.

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

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...

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.

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights MovementBy Katy & Mandy

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement by Jennifer Nelson. We get deeper into the Redstockings radical feminist group.By Mandy & Katy

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 eugeni…

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!By Katy & Mandy

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.…

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 ser…

The best bright-colored-trash-clothes on TV since the Tiger King, with a main serving of white women bullshit. Binge it now!By Katy & Mandy

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 S…

We discuss lying-liar-pants Sherri Tenpenny and Mandy unloads her feelings about all of it.By Katy & Mandy

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.By Katy & Mandy

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 …

The modern day Olympics has some roots in American eugenics...because, of course it does.By Katy & Mandy

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.…

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 tr…

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 he…

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.By Katy & Mandy

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 h…

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 fo…

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…