Take Back the Fight

Take Back the Fight

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Take Back the Fight episodes

  • Feminist Futures
    In this episode, Nora talks about what organizing could look like, especially as the need to confront the far right becomes more and more obvious.

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    38 min
  • Feminists and power
    In this episode, Nora talks about feminism and state power: what happens when self-described feminists get into power, and what role do feminists in the streets play in changing policy?

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    40 min
  • Leadership
    In this episode, Nora talks about leadership: what it means for movements, what it does to individuals and what feminists can learn from the far-right leader machine.

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    38 min
  • Ad Hoc Feminism
    In this episode, Nora talks about ad hoc organizing: from calling a rally to a focus solely on mobilizing, ah hoc feminism can be difficult, if not impossible to turn into a more organized and permenant movement. What does that mean for the demands that ad hoc feminism puts forward?

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    39 min
  • Knowledge
    In this episode, Nora explores knowledge: how mainstream knowledge warps understandings of what's possible, and how knowledge production and dissemination is key to the work of any social movement organization.

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    38 min
  • Debates
    In this episode, Nora talks about debates: why they're important, how they change us and how they ready us to bring ideas to a mass audience. She also talks about avoiding toxic social media debates and what happens when debates don't happen and people can self-declare that fascist ideology related to the gender binary is feminism.

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    46 min
  • Social Movement Organizing

    In this episode, Nora talks about social movements: what they are, what makes them effective and how neoliberalism has created something called the Not-For-Profit Industrial Complex.


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    40 min
  • The Digital Age

    In this episode, Nora talks about how feminism has been shaped by the digital age. From blogs to #metoo, she examines the drawbacks of digital organizing and how we need to avoid the pitfalls.


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    40 min
  • Neoliberalism

    In this episode, Nora defines neoliberalism, and how this economic, political and social force transformed community activism into individualized activists.


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    43 min

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What is modern feminism and how has the digital age changed it? In this limited-series podcast, Nora Loreto will take you through feminism: from debates to campaigns, from white feminism to…