TAF | Clitoral Conflabs

Shoutout to moms on the end of a completed school year! • Meredith’s braces are off! • Three interesting news stories • Update on Meredith’s divorce proceedings and general commentary on how craptastic heteronormative divorce/marriage is in the U.S. present-day.

Link to Shownotes because there are far too many references in this episode to list here (yes, they do limit word-count, boooo), so I’m posting them on the TAF website, along with the transcript of this episode

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Shownotes and Transcript to “Divorce/Marriage RANT” episode of Clitoral Conflabs

Meredith explains why she prefers not to work with men (though she would comply with legal dictates requiring multi-gendered representation in a place of business or civic organization). Members of marginalized populations in a power hierarchy must have spaces in which to gather, organize, strategize, share resources, and more.

🔗 Links:

📑 "Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States, 2024”

📰 “California restaurant cites ‘Ladies Night’ discrimination lawsuit as cause for closure”

📰 “'New girls clubs' took on the old boys. Now Trump wants to ban them”

📰 “White woman denied acceptance into Black infant health program is suing for racial discrimination” 

📰 “Pasadena Public Health Department Sued Over Race-Based Eligibility for Infant Health Program”

📰 “Women-only carriages around the world: do they work?”

📰 “Women-only option for Uber goes nationwide in U.S.”

📑 “Race, Healthcare, and Health Disparities: A Critical Review and Recommendations for Advancing Health Equity”

📰 “WHITE PHYSICIAN SUES ‘FIND A BLACK DOCTOR’ DIRECTORY FOR ALLEGED RACIAL DISCRIMINATION”

🎙️Reshma Saujani interview on Stacey Abrams’ podcast, “Assembly Required”

🌐 Find A Black Doctor

🌐 Girls Who Code

🌐 Moms First

🌐 Read Them Home – An initiative to end family detention 

Meredith cites one of her most influential sources — Melissa Harris-Perry — who anchored an MSNBC show for two hours Saturday and Sunday mornings 2012-16. MHP’s show played an important role in shaping Meredith’s education and understanding of institutionalized racism and oppression that undergirds the very operating system of the United States. Also, shout out to Rep. Jasmine Crockett and her new political action committee: FIREpac!

🔗 Links:

📚 Melissa Harris-Perry

⚖️ Representative Jasmine Crockett’s YouTube Live: Black Lady Courtroom: SCOTUS’ Attack on Voters

🔥 Representative Jasmine Crockett’s FIRE PAC leadership political action committee

📰 From NPR: Supreme Court paves the way for largest-ever drop in Black representation in Congress

🖥️ Stacey Abrams

🌐 Fresh Starts Registry: The World’s First Divorce Registry & Global Divorce Support Network

👩🏻‍🎤 The Agentic Feminine Website

🛍️ The Agentic Feminine Merch Store (just getting started!)

Timestamps:

00:02 — Introduction: Citing sources & the importance of crediting your education 

00:30 — Growing up in the conservative Christian South & the first cracks in the record 

02:00 — Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show (2012–2016) as a transformative education in Black history 

03:10 — The iPhone era, viral police violence videos & progressive white America's incomplete awakening 

04:20 — MHP's skill at explaining institutionalized anti-Black racism to new audiences 

05:00 — Black Twitter & learning rapidly during the Obama era 

05:30 — Why structural racism should be required curriculum, not siloed in African American Studies 

06:00 — Reflecting on impact: flipping Texas districts blue & the limits of changing minds 06:45 — The gutting of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act & the Roberts Court 

07:20 — Why Meredith boycotted MSNBC & CNN — and the problem with 24-hour cable news 

07:50 — Fox News as a foreign-interest-funded attack on America 

08:20 — Fun aside: The MHP airport fangirl moment 

08:40 — Black commentary on Threads & YouTube; Jasmine Crockett's legal panel on voting rights 

09:05 — Texas needs a Stacey Abrams; Rep. Crockett as a future possibility 

09:13 — 📣 Mid-episode announcement: Rep. Crockett launches FirePAK 

09:38 — Closing: The obligation of white consumers of Black media to show up economically & politically

Meredith lays out the full founding vision of The Agentic Feminine (TAF), beginning with the motivational driving forces behind its creation, ending with the operational framework moving forward. Which sounds boring, but it's not. I'm just trying to be concise. You understand.

Time Stamps:

00:00

Intro & note on episode format

00:37

Episode overview & Meredith's background

02:00

The three founding drivers of TAF

05:30

Patriarchy vs. matriarchy 

10:30

Intersectionality & the whitewashing of women's rights

14:00

The four components of TAF

🔗 Links:

📖 The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality by Angela Saini

🎙️ Angela Saini on Elise Loehnen's podcast: Pulling the Thread

📖 Backtalker: An American Memoir by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

🖥️ Dr. Dana E. Crawford, author of Healing Bias

🖋️ “The Next Wave of Feminism is Matriarchy” by Nergiz de Baere

📑 “Matriarchal Studies: Introduction and Definition” by Dr. Barbara Alice Mann and Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth

📑 “The Way into an Egalitarian Society: Principles and Practice of a Matriarchal Politics” by Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth

🌐 Fresh Starts Registry: The World’s First Divorce Registry & Global Divorce Support Network

👩🏻‍🎤 The Agentic Feminine Website

🕯️ TAF Guiding Principles and Philosophies

📚 Vision for TAF Library of Resources for Rewilding Women

🖼️ Vision for TAF Art and Media Conglomerate 

🧗🏽‍♀️ Vision for TAF Strategic Think Tank

🪆Vision for TAF Sisterhood of Rewilding Women

Transript

Introducing "Clitoral Conflabs," the official podcast of The Agentic Feminine. Hosted by me, Meredith, I briefly touch on my background, why I use the term "rewilding," where the word "agentic" originates, why I chose "Clitoral Conflabs" as a title for this podcast as well as what it will encompass. I close with a brief explanation of the POV of the podcast as that of a single mom. Welcome and enjoy! Glad you are here!

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Clitoral Conflabs
03:30 Why I say 'Rewilding'
06:14 Where I got the term 'Agentic'
09:57 Lore Behind the title 'Clitoral Conflabs'
14:19 'Conflab' Is Such a Great Word
16:17 Brief description of 'Clitoral Conflabs'
19:08 POV: Single Moms/Women-Centered

🖥️ The Agentic Feminine Website: https://www.theagenticfeminine.com/
🛍️ The Agentic Feminine Merch Store (just getting started!): https://the-agentic-feminine.printify.me/

📚 TAF Canon of Non-Fiction Literature for Rewilding women: https://www.theagenticfeminine.com/_files/ugd/57e401_fd9e9defdec648b88bfdcc52cdcf6ace.pdf

🧵 Amydiehlphd on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@amydiehlphd
📰 “Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time” from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/29/full-network-clitoral-nerves-mapped-out-first-time-women-pelvic-surgery
📖 Fierce Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff, Ph.D.: https://bookshop.org/p/books/fierce-self-compassion-how-women-can-harness-kindness-to-speak-up-claim-their-power-and-thrive-kristin-neff/15209763?ean=9780063473577&next=t

🔠 Transcript of Episode