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On today's episode, our guests are Susan Basterfield and Gina Stevens-Rembe, collaborators in the Enspiral Network, a collective of social enterprises, ventures, and individuals working collaboratively across the world to support people who want to spend their lives changing the world. Enspiral builds collaborative tools and processes to facilitate the sharing of money through participatory budgets, the sharing of control through collaborative decision-making, and the sharing of information through their Handbook of agreements and guidelines. Aside from her role as Enspiral's Foundation Director, Susan also co-founded Greaterthan, a professional training and coaching organization at the forefront of decentralized, self-managed, and participatory work. Gina's passion for equity and justice led her to her current role as Operations Lead of Enspiral's Developer's Academy. We speak to Susan and Gina today about the work they do, the vision they bring, and how they are leveraging both to transform the way we think and go about work. Part 2 of our conversation continues our discussion with Susan and Gina and delves into the examples of initiatives and ventures within the Enspiral Network and how they are building cultures that support agency, autonomy, and self-organization.

During our conversation, Susan, Gina, and I referenced the following resources and topics:

• The network's book, "Better Work Together"
• "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" by Jo Freeman
• The Enspiral and Loomio Cooperative Handbooks,
• Software Mill's Handbook for New Employees
• A company in the US called Ouishare questioning and experimenting with social models based on collaboration, openness and fairness
• Mingyur Rinpoche's book, "The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness" and his Tergar meditation community who is featured in the recent Netflix special, "The Mind, Explained"
• Frederic Laloux's "Reinventing Organizations"

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On today's episode, our guests are Susan Basterfield and Gina Stevens-Rembe, collaborators in the Enspiral Network, a collective of social enterprises, ventures, and individuals working collaboratively across the world to support people who want to spend their lives changing the world. Enspiral builds collaborative tools and processes to facilitate the sharing of money through participatory budgets, the sharing of control through collaborative decision-making, and the sharing of information through their Handbook of agreements and guidelines. Aside from her role as Enspiral's Foundation Director, Susan also co-founded Greaterthan, a professional training and coaching organization at the forefront of decentralized, self-managed, and participatory work. Gina's passion for equity and justice led her to her current role as Operations Lead of Enspiral's Developer's Academy. We speak to Susan and Gina today about the work they do, the vision they bring, and how they are leveraging both to transform the way we think and go about work.

During our conversation, Susan, Gina, and I referenced the following resources and topics:

• The concept of "emotional labor"
• Loomio, an open-source collaboration platform for collective decision-making, part of the Enspiral network
• The "Parihaka" movement of non-violent resistance
• The "Treaty of Waitangi"
• Jo Freeman's "Tyranny of Structurelessness"
• The network's book, "Better Work Together"

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Vanessa Dawson, CEO and Founder of the Vinetta Project, a global eco-system designed to help high-growth female founders secure the mentorship, funding and support they need to scale their business successfully. By offering access to resources, Vinetta is creating a diverse and inclusive environment that supports the advancement of women and other marginalized groups. Since 2013, Vinetta has facilitated the flow of more than $180 million in funding toward tech in companies founded by women. We speak with Vanessa today about working at the intersection of gender and economic justice, closing the gender funding gap for female tech founders.

During our conversation, Vanessa and I referenced the following resources and topics:

• "Funding For Female Founders Stalled at 2.2% of VC Dollars in 2018"
• Unconscious bias
• The HBR article: "Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs — and It Affects How Much Funding They Get"
• How the Vinetta Project uses the four pillars of capital to help female tech founders
• The work of the National Women's Business Council
• David Letterman's interview with Melinda Gates about how feminist informs her thinking on policy

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is CV Harquail, a change agent, author, consultant and retired management professor who works at the intersection of organizational change, feminist praxis, leadership, and digital technology. We will be talking about her recent book, Feminism: A Key Idea for Business and Society--the first to combine feminism and business. We explore how the ideas in the book craft a vision of work where businesses are profitable, products and work are meaningful, financial returns are consistent and fair, and individuals, communities, and the planet all flourish. CV offers practical tools, useful frameworks, and novel resources for initiating and sustaining real change.

For part 2 of our conversation, CV and I referenced the following resources:

• Bengt Holmstrom and Jean Tirole's paper, "The Theory of the Firm"
• What is a land acknowledgement?
• The concept of "oblivious discovery" in which feminist ideas or concepts have been appropriated and reformulated as "new"
• How Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms' book, "New Power" bro-propriates the concept from Mary Parker Follett, an organizational theory and behavior philosopher and often called the "Mother of Modern Management" and coined the term "power with" rather than "power over" as a way to share power
• Examples of organizations applying feminist business practices or values to growth including Lunapads, Bumble, Percolab, Basecamp, and Loomio
• Samantha Slade's book "Going Horizontal: Creating A Non-Hierarchical Organization, One Practice At a Time"
• The role of the ERA or Equal Rights Amendment in incentivizing businesses to prioritize gender equality and equity in the workplace
• Andrea Dworkin's ideas about sex and violence
• The expansion of material and resources to teach and learn about oppression and be anti-racist, beyond the book, "Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory" by Philomena Essed

Be sure to check out Part 1 of our conversation with CV if you haven't heard it already. We chat about what feminism is and how she expands the definition for business, how businesses can benefit, and current approaches to gender equality in the workplace.

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is CV Harquail, a change agent, author, consultant and retired management professor who works at the intersection of organizational change, feminist praxis, leadership, and digital technology. We will be talking about her recent book, Feminism: A Key Idea for Business and Society--the first to combine feminism and business. We explore how the ideas in the book craft a vision of work where businesses are profitable, products and work are meaningful, financial returns are consistent and fair, and individuals, communities, and the planet all flourish. CV offers practical tools, useful frameworks, and novel resources for initiating and sustaining real change.

During our conversation, CV and I referenced the following resources:

• The definition of feminism as defined by bell hooks in Feminism is for Everybody
• The differences between equity, equality and parity
• The five feminist values CV offers for work and business
• Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza's definition of kyriarchy
• Neoliberalism's role in shaping the world of business today
• The six more common ways organizations respond to gender inequality in the workplace

Be sure to check in next week for Part 2 of our conversation with CV where she talks about feminist organizational structures, practices, and systems, and how businesses can implement them and be transformed by them.

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In this "Reflections" episode,Teri and Michael reflect back on episodes on the weaponization of motherhood - Episode 67: Bethany Johnson and Maggie Quinlan on "You're Doing It Wrong! Mothering, Media and Medical Expertise," Episode 68: Indra Lusero of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women on Reproductive Justice as a Human Right, Episode 69: #SurvivorStories Series with Jessica Ingels on courts giving custody to abusers, and Episode 70: Follow up to #SurvivorStories Series with Jessica Ingels–on courts giving custody to abusers.

Teri and Michael co-host the en(gender)ed reflections episodes which serve to help curate a series of past episodes, usually around a specific theme. We hope these episodes help listeners coming in at that point of the podcast identify particular episodes and themes that they may want to explore. During our reflection, we talked about these additional resources:

• The film, the Joker, and its portrayal of victim-blaming victims of domestic violence
• Our interview with Rachel Louise Snyder on her book, No Visible Bruises
• The Business of Being Born documentary
• Black mother mortality rate
• So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo
• The Equal Rights Amendment and the documentary Equal Means Equal
• The discredited Bell Curve book and its idea that there was a correlation with race and lower IQ

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On this episode of the en(gender)ed, I am responding to the flurry of attacks I received from publishing Jessica Ingels' #SurvivorStories series episode last week.

For a the transcript to this episode, visit the website page here.

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On this episode of the en(gender)ed #SurvivorStories series, our guest is Jessica Ingels, a protective mother and domestic violence victim and survivor. In our conversation, Jessica describes the ways in which her abusive ex-husband has weaponized the courts against her to obtain custody of their daughter, despite her protective order against him and her status as an eligible Crime Victims Compensation Bureau victim. Jessica shares with us the ways in which the courts have viewed her protective mother status as a liability and used it to label her unfit to see her daughter, despite their own clear conflicts of interest that should have disqualified them from any decision-making or involvement in her case. Throughout our conversation with survivors, we reference #abusertactics, #signsofabuse, and #upstandertips.

During our conversation, Jessica and I referenced the following resources:

• How domestic abusers groom and isolate their victims
• Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project
• Episode 9 with Joan Meier and her recent final publication of her research on how courts view claims of abuse
• Jessica's CourtWatch details for October 9th, 2019

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Indra Lusero, a staff attorney at the National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW), a non-profit organization that combines pro-bono criminal defense and civil rights legal work, advocacy, and public education and organizing to ensure that no one is locked-up, shamed, or denied constitutional or human rights because they have the capacity for pregnancy, are pregnant, or because of any outcome of pregnancy, including abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth and birth.

We speak with Indra today about the work their organization does to educate the public about the weaponization of motherhood and pregnancy and how it supports those accused or criminalized for their pregnancy choices or outcomes.

During our conversation, Indra and I referenced the following resources:

• The difference between reproductive justice and reproductive rights
• How the "Chemical Endangerment Law" is being used against pregnant people
• The case of Marshae Jones in Alabama
• The Rinat Dray case in which a New York hospital's secret policy led to woman being given C-section against her will
• Obstetric violence as a human rights violation and Make Mothers Matter's report on obstetric violence
• Our interview with Bethany Johnson and Maggie Quinlan, authors of You're Doing It Wrong! Mothering, Media, and Medical Expertise
• Roberta Baker's premature birth at home leading to her being charged with felony child abuse and neglect
• Christine Taylor's arrest for attempted fetal homicide for falling down the stairs
• Faren Tang's work on the idea that birth people choose who they parent with
• Bei Bei Shuai's arrest for attempting suicide while pregnant
• Indra's reference to Tracy is actually Laura Pemberton of Florida
• NAPW's representation of Sara McKenna during her fight for custody of her child with Bode Miller
• Teri's reference of how abusers use a disinformation campaign to discredit their victims' claims of abuse in custody cases

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guests are Bethany Johnson and Maggie Quinlan, co-authors of the book, You're Doing it Wrong! Mothering, Media and Medical Expertise, which investigates the storied history of expertise around mothering in society and in the media. As an Associate Professor of Communications at UNC Charlotte, Maggie work explores how communication creates, resists and transforms knowledge about bodies. Bethany is an instructor in the Department of History and her research focuses on American medical and gender history. Our discussion today will deep dive into their most recent joint work, You're Doing it Wrong! and its analysis of the history of mothering, mothering experts, and the implications social media has had on the experience of mothering in this country and the issues of equality it raises for mothers to receive equitable care.

During our conversation, Bethany and Maggie and I referenced the following resources:

• Episode 9 with Joan Meier and her recent final publication of her research on how courts view claims of abuse
• Robin Jensen's Infertility: Tracing the History of a Transformative Term
• The work of Mary Putnam Jacobi on women's health
• The work of Dr. Matrika Johnson on research and work in reproductive endocrinology and infertility in the African-American community
• Teri's reference to the National Advocates for Pregnant Women
• The feminist group Heterdoxy who brought birthing into hospitals
• Maya Dusenbery's book, Doing Harm
• Serena Williams' near death experience after giving birth

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