Breaking Glass

Comprehensive sex education is not standardized in schools across Arab countries and more than 40% of pregnancies are unintended.

Since moving from Chicago to Dubai in 2014, Dr. Salem has defied tradition and delivered sex education to women through her OB-GYN clinic as well as through her Instagram account. With more than 20k followers, she answers questions, busts myths, and provides advice to women who don't otherwise have access to sex ed. She joins Kassia to talk about: 

• Providing OB-GYN care in conservative Arab cultures where many women are taught to be ashamed of their bodies
• Turning to social media to build a platform for sex education that is not otherwise available in schools
• How women, men, and authorities are responding 

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Reproductive freedom is in grave danger across the United States. Experts predict that it is not a question of if Roe will be overturned this year, but rather when.

Kathryn Kolbert is one of the most influential reproductive rights attorneys in the country. Julie Kay is a passionate human rights attorney who came up under the mentorship of Kitty at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Collectively, these women are two of the most aggressive and accomplished defenders of reproductive rights around the world. They join Sabrina Merage Naim to talk about:

• Kitty’s 1992 appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court
• Julie’s successful argument before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights
• What we need to do to protect reproductive rights across the country when Roe is overturned

We also discuss their newest book, Controlling Women: What We Must Do Now to Save Reproductive Freedom. Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world. 

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Season two is coming soon and this is our little love letter to those loyal listeners who are waiting oh so patiently.

It's been a few months since our 43rd episode dropped to wrap up Season 1. And since then, we've been chasing babies, growing businesses, and planning how to knock your socks off in our second season. A few of the to dos on our list?

• Mix up the show format
• More intimate one-on-one conversations with world-changing guests
• Launching a powerful and practical email newsletter that brings you all the best resources around episode topics.

In today's bonus episode, Sabrina and Kassia drop in to say hello and whet your appetite for the launch of our next season. Head over to breakingglasspodcast.com to review season one episodes before we dive into season two.

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Rules were bent. Glass was broken. Minds were expanded. Join Sabrina and Kassia in reflecting on the audacious, gutsy guests whose stories, advice, and badassery comprised season one. The co-hosts discuss the conversations that left a mark and opened their eyes to the vast array of experiences women are facing around the world. Sabrina reveals the episode that most challenged her, and Kassia shares how she has personally grown in unexpected ways.

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Dr. Faith Mwangi-Powell grew up in rural Kenya with two parents who were deeply committed to her education. The daughter of a village chief, it wasn’t until she completed her PhD and was deep into her career in public health and population studies that she realized child marriage had been happening all around her. Today, Dr. Faith is the CEO of Girls Not Brides where she leads a network of global organizations working to end child marriage. She joins us to reflect on her own childhood, how she was sheltered from many of the cultural traditions happening right around her, and the work she's doing to support the 650 million women currently living with the consequences of child marriage.  

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Erin Jorgensen is an artist, musician, and a somewhat accidental abortion activist. Having grown up in a Mormon family in rural Washington, Erin eventually turned her back on the church and moved to the coast to pursue a career in music. A struggling artist, she resorted to sex work to make ends meet. After four abortions, Erin's roommate and dear friend urged her to open up about her experience and to her disbelief, Erin found that her story wasn't unique at all. In fact, nearly one in four women in the United States will have an abortion in her lifetime. Today, Erin is the Communications Director for Shout Your Abortion and she joins us to share her story publicly for the first time. We're talking about the emotional, mental, and physical toll of abortions, the judgement and stigma endured by any woman making this decision, and the many reasons why legislation has no place in women's reproductive health.

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Matthew Nouriel is a British Iranian who from a young age, was attracted to all the things little boys in traditional homes should never be attracted to - Barbies, dresses, make up. Growing up between the UK and Los Angeles, Matthew diverged from the path that their family laid out for them and found a home among the LGBTQ+ community of West Hollywood. Soon, Matthew was able to merge their passion for stand up comedy and femininity to become The Empress Mizrahi. In this episode, Matthew relays the challenges of being a queer little boy in a traditional home and culture, the joys of drag, and why it took so long to find pronouns that felt right. 

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At the young age of 16, Orna Donath knew with certainty that she would never be a mother. To Orna, this self-realization was not as extraordinary as society would want her to believe. To her, it was mundane. Just as common as choosing to become a mother. In the decades that followed she became a sociologist and author, producing thought-provoking research on women who regret motherhood along with those who chose to never have children at all. She joins us to share her own personal experience of the stigma societies place on women who choose to not mother as well as how we can begin the complex journey to untangle womanhood from motherhood.

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Esther Amini is a writer, artist, and psychotherapist whose family emigrated from Mashad, Iran to New York City before she was born. Despite their newfound freedom, the life of secrecy and duplicity that they had known in Iran resulted in generations of trauma. Esther has spent a lifetime navigating these two conflicting realities - that of a conservative Jewish Iranian daughter whose only aspirations should be to marry and to mother, and that of a curious child who grew into an accomplished woman with professional accolades and a strong will. Esther reflects on her experience straddling these conflicting cultures, how the secrets have shaped her, and how she has managed to define womanhood on her own terms.

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Jackson Katz is founder & president of MVP Strategies and an outspoken expert on why gender violence is a man's issue. Jackson grew up in a dysfunctional family and in college found himself studying the intersectionality of race, gender, and discrimination. Watching strong female classmates survive rape and campaign for campus safety, Jackson grew increasingly infuriated by the lack of engagement he saw from his male peers. In the decades since, Jackson has been a trusted male voice at the forefront of ending gender violence. We're talking masculinity, strength, and how he's training a new generation of leaders and bystanders to take an active role to end violence against women.

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