About Face

Songs used in the episode:
"Leaving Naples" & "Just What I Want" from the EP "Seeing Naples" with Sick rat 
"Cold Season" from the EP "INFP" with Undogmatic

Link to INFP: 
https://concretecee.bandcamp.com/album/infp
Link to Seeing Naples: 
https://sickrat.bandcamp.com/…/sick-rat-cedric-till-seeing-…

In this episode Kate sits down with a woman she calls Ally. Her guest didn't want to be identified by name or expose others who were involved in this story. This episode is about how she struggled to reconcile feminism and motherhood, personal freedom and security, as well as the "grass is always greener" myths surrounding romantic relationships and singledom.

Kate also discusses her own struggle with losing the freedom that comes with detachment and the pressures faced by unmarried women in their 20s and 30s and beyond. It is an episode that deals with the personal struggles we have inside and outside our relationships, and how to evolve personally when we choose to have commitments.  

Ally chose to remain an anonymous guest, but we have used some stock photos to promote the episode. Just a note so that no one is confused by these images...

Susie Kahlich has always been brassy, even back to her early years in Chicago and punk rock days in 1980s New York. In this episode, we sit down and talk about the impact of sexual assault, the night she was brutally attacked in L.A. and her life’s work teaching self-defense to women.

We did this interview before the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, before the #metoo campaign went viral. At the time, not even two months ago, it did feel like no one was talking about all the forms of harassment and assault that don’t involve penetration or rape that doesn’t involve a stranger or violence, but is still, just as painful, just as unwanted.  And we all know that it has everything to do with power. Even the conversation felt so cutting, and yet beneath the surface, both of us simmering with this feeling, this anger and agitation and fear and rage about what we knew had happened to us, what had happened to others, and this consuming, feeling that there was so much to say, so much unsaid.

This episode is about sexual violence, the body’s natural self-defense system, and Susie’s ability to translate her experience into a self-defense program to help women and refugees.

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For more information about Pretty Deadly go to prettydeadly.org or listen to Susie’s podcast Artipeous.

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