WDI Podcast

Karen Browne lives in the west of Ireland and has had a lifelong interest in women’s rights. She is a member of Let Women Speak and believes that taking action is important, whether through stickering, talking to people, engaging with government, or using social media. Living with disabilities, she is also interested in how these experiences affect women. Her main interests are creative writing, reading, and drawing.

Annie Gouilleux is 77 years old, lives on her own in Lyon in France. She is a retired English teacher turned translator, and now she's " come home" in the radical feminist mouvement, at least that's how it feels.

Karla Mantilla is a longtime feminist who cut her teeth on feminist activism and theory as a collective member of off our backs newsjournal. She taught sociology, research methods, and statistics at a variety of colleges and universities in the Washington, DC, and surrounding area. She worked for nearly 18 years as the managing editor of an academic women’s studies journal. Throughout her tenure there, she witnessed the field of academic women’s studies devolve into something unrecognizable as feminism to her

Feminist Question Time - 22 November 2025 Host Jo Brew

Karla Mantilla, USA, The ways that the LGBT movement, by being overtly and covertly a gay male movement, set the stage for transgenderism.

Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights

Annie Gouilleux, France

Karen Browne, Ireland

Aly McGee LICSW., USA

Susan Hawthorne has been reading about prehistory for nearly 50 years.She even enrolled in a Philosophy PHD entitled ‘Belief Systems in the AncientWorld’ in 1979. One year in it became impossible because all the philosopherswanted her to read was postmodernism. She threw in the PhD and began studyingancient languages, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and some Latin. Instead of her PhD,she wrote a novel, The Falling Woman (1992) which includes some mythicmaterial. Her main work in the mythic area is poetry. In The ButterflyEffect (2005) she unpacks lesbian language and metaphor; in Cow(2011) she follows a cow called Queenie from her invention of the universe tothe present; in Lupa and Lamb (2014) she pulls apart the history ofRome, its wolves and lambs and lost texts found in an ancient museum; in TheSacking of the Muses (2019) she follows myths from India and Greece,including several translations. Poetry allows for experimentation and formaking things up in order to show a different way of seeing the world. She iscurrently working on a book, Ulyssea in which she imagines alesbian-centric Amazon world.

15 November 2025

Host Jo Brew; Karla Mantilla USA What Happened to Academic Women's Studies?; Sam Brown Canada Combatting the Canadian Hate Act; Pam Steele Australia Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights - Who bears the cost of violence against women and children - Full FQT

Previously operating at C-level in corporate environments and leading IT development and enterprise change initiatives, Pam Steele has now earned the label of survivor. She wants to reinvent support services for female victims of violence to minimise harm and disruption to them and their children, using her experience to deliver the best victim-centred services in the world.

Sam Brown is a Canadian mother and women’s activist. She was the Ontario coordinator for WDI Canada until recently, when she took over from Linda Blade as the Canadian coordinator. She is also involved in local activism in Ontario opposing gender ideology, school board overreach, and the erosion of women’s rights in Canada.

Karla Mantilla is a longtime feminist who cut her teeth on feminist activism and theory as a collective member of off our backs newsjournal. She taught sociology, research methods, and statistics at a variety of colleges and universities in the Washington, DC, and surrounding area. She worked for nearly 18 years as the managing editor of an academic women’s studies journal. Throughout her tenure there, she witnessed the field of academic women’s studies devolve into something unrecognizable as feminism to her.

'Radical Reckonings’ by Renate Klein, discussed by Renate Klein and Sheila Jeffreys.

A live webinar recorded on 16th November 2025 at 10am UK time.

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