Vaishnavi Sundar - Feminist, Writer, Filmmaker & Activist

Vaishnavi Sundar discusses the narcissistic transgressions of trans ideology and its negative impact on women and girls.

https://vaishnavisundar.com/

https://vaishnavisundar.com/about/

Behind The Looking Glass - FIRST EVER Documentary about the Wives & Children of Trans-Identified Men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frffv2sB8zE&t=6s

https://limesodafilms.com/btlg/

https://limesodafilms.com/

Music: Bach B Minor Mass

Performed by

The Monteverdi ChoirThe English Baroque SoloistsJohn Eliot Gardiner

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232/1053521016

Trans: Fact or Fiction? with Helen Joyce - The Shape of Dialogue #44

Helen Joyce, campaigner for women's rights from Sex Matters, talks about our ancient common knowledge of the difference between men and a women, and the three recent seismic events pushing back against trans-ideology and its harm to women's rights and children - 

The UK Cass Report in April 2024

The United States President’s EXECUTIVE ORDER 14168 - Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government - January 2025

The For Women Scotland UK Supreme Court ruling in April 2025

Helen Joyce 

https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/

https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/p/about-me

Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality - 

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0861540492?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_au

Music: Bach B Minor Mass 

Performed by

The Monteverdi ChoirThe English Baroque SoloistsJohn Eliot Gardiner

 https://music.apple.com/nz/album/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232/1053521016

Lawrence Krauss talks about his new book about the war and science

https://lawrencemkrauss.com/

The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out About Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Process

https://www.amazon.com/War-Science-Thirty-Nine-Scientists-Scientific/dp/B0DWLP2VTZ

A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric with Dr Erec Smith - The Shape of Dialogue Podcast No 7

Music: Bach B Minor Mass

Performed by Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232/1053521016

https://www.hpluckrose.com/

Helen Pluckrose is a British liberal humanist writer and social commentator. She is the co-author with James Lindsay of Cynical Theories, Social (In)justice, as well as her own book, The Counterweight Handbook, about Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justice at Work, in Schools, and Beyond. 

At university, Helen studied late medieval women's religious writing. Her work now focuses on critiques of postmodernist philosophies, Critical Social Justice scholarship and activism and their negative effects on the humanities and the political left. With James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian, Helen was instrumental in the now famous "Grievance Studies Affair" which exposed the dubious scholarship in academic fields captured by Postmodernism, critical theory and identity politics. They succeeded in publishing a number of fake, hoax papers in academic journals. The project was inspired by Alan Sokal's 1996 hoax paper he published in the academic journal, Social Text.

From 2018 to 2021, Helen was the editor-in-chief of Areo, an online magazine focusing on politics, culture, science and art. You can read her current writings on her Substack called The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain - https://substack.com/@helenpluckrose

Helen's books - https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08GSPKP4M

Helen's Quillette articles - https://quillette.com/author/helen-pluckrose/

Music: Bach B Minor Mass

Performed by

The Monteverdi ChoirThe English Baroque SoloistsJohn Eliot Gardiner

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232/1053521016

https://www.daviddeutsch.org.uk/

David Deutsch is a renowned University of Oxford physicist, philosopher, and the "father" of quantum computation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and his work includes fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information, and the new field of constructor theory. In 1985, he proposed a universal quantum computer and went on to make some of the most significant advances in the field, including the discovery of the first quantum algorithms.

He is renowned for his theoretical advances, including the theory of quantum logic gates and quantum computational networks, as well as several fundamental quantum universality results. His work set the agenda for subsequent international research efforts in quantum computation.

David was awarded the Paul Dirac Prize and Medal by the Institute of Physics in 1998 and he won the Edge of Computation Science Prize in 2005.

His books are highly influential. The Fabric of Reality explores the synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution. The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavour. 

He has published many articles and research papers and has presented three TED talks.

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/0143121359?ref_=mr_referred_us_au_au

The Fabric of Reality: Towards a Theory of Everything

https://www.amazon.com.au/Fabric-Reality-Towards-Everything-Penguin-ebook/dp/B004YB9HVY?ref_=ast_author_dp

Music: Bach B Minor Mass

Performed by

The Monteverdi ChoirThe English Baroque SoloistsJohn Eliot Gardiner

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232/1053521016

Douglas Mark Elliffe is a New Zealand academic and Professor of Psychology at the University of Auckland, where he has been affiliated since 1979 as a student and later as faculty.

He completed his PhD in Psychology at the university, with a thesis titled "Multiple-schedule performance in closed economies," and joined the academic staff in 1992 to help establish the Psychology programme at the Tāmaki campus.

Elliffe's research specialises in the experimental analysis of behaviour, focusing on learning and choice in animals and humans, with a particular interest in reconceptualising reinforcement as a signal guiding future behaviour rather than merely strengthening past actions.

He has authored over 84 publications, garnering more than 2,000 citations.

Throughout his career, he has held key leadership roles, including Head of the School of Psychology from 2010 to 2013 and Deputy Dean of Science since 2016.

In 2021, Elliffe co-authored the now-famous Listener Letter, "In Defence of Science", which argued that Māori indigenous knowledge, while valuable, is not equivalent to science. Professor Elliffe decided to resign from the acting dean position amid the backlash within his department to the "In Defence of Science" letter.

Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins

https://www.richarddawkins.com/books/book/climbing-mount-improbable-

https://the-shape-of-dialogue.captivate.fm

Thanks to Guy Quartermain for the videography - https://www.keyframe.co.nz/

Music: Bach B Minor Mass

Performed by

The Monteverdi ChoirThe English Baroque SoloistsJohn Eliot Gardiner

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232/1053521016

About Travis Brown

https://www.thesignalproductions.com/about

Uncomfortable Truths:  The Reality of Gender Identity Ideology

https://www.thesignalproductions.com/

The Woke Reformation is a documentary series that chronicles the origins of Woke ideology, helps people understand it and gives advice on how to push back. 

https://www.wokereformation.com/

What Killed Michael Brown?

https://whatkilledmichaelbrown.com/

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatkilledmichaelbrown?utm_medium=vod&utm_source=hp

Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings By Roland G. Fryer, Jr

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/fryer_police_aer.pdf

Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/upshot/surprising-new-evidence-shows-bias-in-police-use-of-force-but-not-in-shootings.html

10,429 people have been shot and killed by police from 2015 to 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

Number of people shot to death by the police in the United States from 2017 to 2024, by race

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

Critical Race Theory expert Dr. James Lindsay outlines the genealogy of communism and its evolution into woke ideologies.

About Dr. James Lindsay

An American-born author, mathematician, and professional troublemaker, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is a leading expert on Critical Race Theory, which leads him to reject it completely. He is the founder of New Discourses and is currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody", currently being translated into more than fifteen languages.

https://newdiscourses.com/author/jameslindsay/

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B Minor

Performed by The Monteverdi ChoirThe English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232/1053521016

Professor Elizabeth Rata is a sociologist of education in the School of Critical Studies, Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland where she is Director of the Knowledge in Education Research Unit (KERU). Her main research areas are in knowledge in the curriculum, knowledge politics, ethnic revivalism, Māori education, research methods, and the history of New Zealand education.

https://elizabethrata.com/bio/

https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/e-rata

https://the-shape-of-dialogue.captivate.fm

Thanks to Guy Quartermain for cinematography and editing this podcast - https://www.keyframe.co.nz/

Music: Bach B Minor Mass

Performed by

The Monteverdi ChoirThe English Baroque SoloistsJohn Eliot Gardiner

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/j-s-bach-mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232/1053521016

About Kendall Clements

https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/k-clements

Mātauranga Māori 

Mātauranga Māori with Charles Royal - The Shape of Dialogue Podcast #15

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