Breaking Glass

Did you know the word “homosexual” didn’t appear in the Bible until 1946? Neither did we. And neither did Kathy Baldock until a gay friend said, “Even God doesn’t love me,” and Kathy, a heterosexual, practicing Christian, went looking for answers.

Today, Kathy is an author (Walking The Bridgeless Canyon), LGBTQ advocate, international speaker and educator. She has done more research than almost anyone in the world on the origins of Christianity's discrimination against the LGBTQ community. She joins Sabrina to discuss:

• How two words became combined and mistranslated to “homosexual” in the 1946 Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible                                                                                       
• The ways in which the Church's relationship to the LGBTQ community has evolved
• How an antiquated understanding of procreation, among other things, led to gender discrimination in the Church

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Women account for less than 10% of leadership positions in governments around the world. At this rate, we will not achieve gender equality in these highest positions of power for 130 years.

Marissa Conway is not surprised. Neither intimidated nor impressed by the foreign policy sector dominated by older, white men, Marissa has had a front row seat to the patriarchal systems in which policies are made. A vivacious young analyst and activist, Marissa made a name for herself founding the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. Based in England, she has supported political campaigns,,consulted governments around the world and joins Kassia to discuss:

• How to deconstruct patriarchal power dynamics in foreign policy
• The ways she sees governments, capitalism, and Western ideals co-opting feminism
• What feminism means to her and whether or not it can be achieved without women in positions of power

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Despite the influence of civil rights icons Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, their mother's stories were all but erased from history. That is until Dr. Anna Malaika-Tubbs came along.

While pregnant with her first child, Dr. Mailka-Tubbs wrote the award-winning book The Three Mothers: How the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. Her original research details the lives and influence these women had, and is a catalyst for conversation about the many ways we continue to undervalue the work of mothers. She joins Sabrina to discuss:

• The ways in which American society could better celebrate and support mothers
• How she refused to be erased as the wife of a prominent politician
• Her experience as a Black woman raising young children

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Abortion saves lives. Abortion is healthcare. Abortion should never have been politicized.

But it was. And in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, when we're mostly full of anger and sorrow, we really need glimmers of hope. One such spark can be found in a place one might expect fervent opposition to abortion: Ireland. In this rerelease of one of our very first episodes, Ailbhe joins Sabrina & Kassia to share how she organized a national movement to legalize abortion in Ireland. They talk about:

• Her experience growing up gay in a conservative Catholic community
• How she navigated oppressive cultural gender expectations
• Why the Irish campaign for reproductive rights was ultimately successful

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Many double standards exist for women and men, but perhaps none as ubiquitously as how they use their voice. A loud little girl is called bossy, a bold assertive woman is called a bitch. The same leadership qualities that we celebrate in men we often silence in women and Phumzile van Damme has experienced this at every turn of her career.

Elected to serve as a Member of Parliament for South Africa at the age of 31, van Damme went on to hold positions of National Assembly Whip, Shadow Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Committee, and National Spokesperson of her party. She is one of the most accomplished young, Black, female politicians in South Africa and yet the relentless pressure to silence her eventually led to her resignation in 2021. She joins Kassia to talk about:

• Her political rise and her reputation for defying tradition and speaking out on behalf of gender equity
• Her struggle with self-confidence and imposter syndrome
• The attempts of organized gendered disinformation campaigns to undermine her political influence

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Ever been called an angry feminist? Us too.

Soraya Chemaly is a writer, speaker, and activist who studies the many reasons women have to be angry, and why they're called bitches, hot-headed, crazy feminists when they are. She is an award-winning activist, the best-selling author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, and director and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project. She joins Sabrina to discuss:

• The reasons women have to be angry, from microaggressions to macro-level sexism
• Why anger is actually one of the most hopeful, forward-thinking, and powerful emotions
• Why men and women are conditioned to experience and display emotion differently

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We’re releasing a bonus episode from 1972! Just kidding. We’re releasing a bonus episode from 2022 about what to do now that the United States is about to revoke the rights of millions of people with uteruses. Sabrina reaches back out to human rights attorney and previous guest, Julie Kay to talk about:

•        What this legal ruling might mean for other rights
•        Which interventions are and are not likely to work once Roe v. Wade is overturned
•        How we keep going, keep fighting, and strategically channel our rage 

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It's not often that a poet's first paid piece of writing jumps to the top of the New York Times bestseller lists. Kate Baer's did. Her first book, What Kind of Woman was published in 2020 and followed shortly by a book of erasure poetry, I Hope This Finds You Well (2021). Both tackle the underlying treatment of women and mothers in modern society.

Even if you haven't picked up one of her books (yet), you've probably seen her work, which regularly goes viral online. She joins Kassia to talk about:

• The slow burn of being lost, overwhelmed, and undervalued as a woman and mother
• The unreasonable expectations that society places on women and the support it fails to provide
• The unglamorous realities of writing (hint: lots of misogyny, failures, emotional labor, and some very expensive childcare)

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In a country that criminalizes homosexuality, Kaz is an openly queer individual. Bisexual, lesbians, and transgender persons are not recognized by the Kenyan constitution and yet she lives openly and authentically while encouraging others to do the same.

Kaz started her career as a singer and performer. In 2006, she won the Kora Award for The Most Promising Female Artist in Africa and was dubbed the Kenyan Queen of Soul. Today she is the host of The Spread, a sex-positive podcast that creates a safe space for people to understand their sexuality and learn to live confidently in awareness of their sexual identity. She joins Sabrina to talk about:

• Her experience being sexually abused as a child
• How she recovered from revenge porn as a young adult
• What we can all learn from the bondage, discipline, dominance and submission and sadomasochism (BDSM) about consent

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Five kids between the two of them, Sabrina and Kassia know a thing or two about pregnancy. From infertility to miscarriage, morning sickness to stretch marks these ladies could write a real epic. That's why they're pulling back the curtains - not as experts on any one of these issues, but as mothers and friends who want to dispel some of the ways society tends to sugar coat pregnancy. We're talking about:

• The first trimester and the burden of being expected to endure it in secret
• Miscarriage and why it does us a great disservice to not talk about it more candidly
• Infertility, vulnerability, and the honest desire to hold the cards close to our chest

We're getting real personal in this episode, showing up for one another to celebrate big news and recount hard losses and to invite you all to start talking. Like what you hear and want more? Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world. 

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