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EcoFeminist legends Vandana Shiva, Farida Akhter, and Susan Hawthorne have highlighted the role of women in the ecological movement throughout their lives. In this episode of the FiLiA podcast, they discuss how environmental destruction is based on the patriarchal mindset, from the language we use to the way we relate to the natural world. The relationship between ecocide, genocide, colonialism and patriarchy is highlighted. The discussion covers the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum, surrogacy, sexual assault, transgender ideology, the sex trade and how women are the first to be impacted by ecological destruction.

Sharing their experiences in the ecofeminist movement. They discuss non-patriarchal societies, indigenous knowledge, and the transgenerational relationship between women. Also how, by remembering our relation with Mother Earth and each other, women can reconnect with the land, and build sisterhood and solidarity to fight back against both patriarchy and ecocide.

In this episode, Alexandria Sherman, student of the Dianic tradition and FiLiA volunteer, meets Cristina Pandolfo, Dianic practioner and teacher, to talk about the Dianic tradition of witchcraft that was revealed in the 1970s by Zsuzsanna Budapest as a spiritual path that formed another way to fight the patriarchy.

The Dianic Tradition combines the spirituality of the matriarchal religion of the Great Mother with modern witchcraft and feminist politics.

In this episode of the FiLiA Podcast, Raquel Rosario Sanchez interviews Professor Kathleen Stock about her new book ‘Material Girls’, a timely and trenchant critique of the influential theory that we all have an inner feeling known as a gender identity, and that this feeling is more socially significant than our biological sex.

In Material Girls, Professor Kathleen Stock surveys the philosophical ideas that led to this point, and closely interrogates each one, from De Beauvoir’s statement that, ‘One is not born, but rather becomes a woman’ (an assertion she contends has been misinterpreted and repurposed), to Judith Butler’s claim that language creates biological reality, rather than describing it. She looks at biological sex in a range of important contexts, including women-only spaces and resources, healthcare, epidemiology, political organization and data collection.

The book makes a clear, humane and feminist case for our retaining the ability to discuss reality, and concludes with a positive vision for the future, in which trans rights activists and feminists can collaborate to achieve some of their political aims.

In this episode, FiLiA Spokeswoman Raquel Rosario Sanchez speaks with Elizabeth Miller, the editor of new anthology Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century.

Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century seeks to raise up the voices of women around the world writing or creating from a radical feminist perspective, including scholars, journalists, political activists and organizers, bloggers, writers, poets, artists, and independent thinkers.