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Dr. Naomi Whittaker joins us to expose what’s really happening inside the fertility and women’s health industries. As a Creighton-trained OBGYN and surgeon, Dr. Whittaker didn’t enter this field because she liked what she saw — she wanted to change it. Her personal story runs very deep: her grandmother died after a C-section in communist Poland, and decades later, Dr. Whittaker found herself confronted with the same unnecessary major abdominal surgery. We talk about the epigenetic roots of endometriosis, the rebranding of infertility as a “disease,” and the urgent need to prioritize safe over merely “effective” interventions.

Dr. Whittaker also reveals the hidden economics of fertility care, everything from insurance reimbursement loopholes to the industry’s total lack of accountability for both maternal and infant mobility and mortality. She shares how women suffering from endometriosis can vet their surgeon, what dignified reproductive care should look like, and offers a compassionate message for women who regret freezing their eggs. For those struggling to conceive, she reminds us that the female drive to nurture and create extends far beyond procreation.

This is an episode for anyone ready to rethink what real women’s healthcare could look like, when it’s grounded in truth, ethics, and humanity.

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Michigan-based female physiologist Sarah shares her journey from being a proudly non-monogamous, sex-positive liberal feminist to a woman reclaiming her body, fertility, and longing for motherhood. Raised by a single mother who helped shape her world view, she built her trauma healing practice based on an ideology that promised freedom but instead delivered disconnection — from men who truly respect women and from her female body. 

Sarah opens up about leaving the polyamorous world, witnessing the aftermath of the covid shots in her clinical practice, and facing backlash for simply using the word woman. After years of deprogramming and somatic-based healing, Sarah stands in her truth while continuing to support women of varying ideological beliefs who have been chewed up and spit out by the western medical model, and is ready to conceive for the first time at the age of 44, shedding the lies of overpopulation and climate doom and embracing motherhood as the most radical act of body reclamation. 

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What does liberation feel like in the body and how do we know when we’ve mistaken violence or an ideology for freedom? In this episode, Tara Rae Behr shares her journey from an evangelical upbringing, where purity culture and child rearing looked like spanking and lots of shame, to almost leaving psychotherapy to pursue a career in “conscious sex work.” Like many women disentangling themselves from extreme religious upbringings, Tara wondered if there was something healing in re-enacting violence through sex or if liberation could be found by swinging to the opposite end of the spectrum. While confronting the scandals of evangelical leaders like Ted Haggard as well as her own mentorship with a BDSM “therapist,” Tara discovered that both purity culture and liberal pro-prostitution views of the body and sexuality are in fact distortions of true intimacy.

Through MDMA-assisted therapy, Tara began recovering suppressed memories of childhood abuse, leading her to confront her parents and break ties with a BDSM mentor. In this deeply reflective conversation, Tara explores what it means to discern right from wrong outside of dogma, how much of her religious upbringing still informs her moral compass, and how she now envisions sexuality beyond objectification. Tara asks how we can befriend ourselves, reclaim intimacy with our own bodies, and reconnect with the Earth—instead of falling into the abyss of the transhumanist vision of the body as a forever modifiable machine.

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What happens when your conscience and your religion are at war from the time you’re born? In this episode, author of Unveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims, Yasmine Mohammed shares her harrowing story of growing up under the weight of religious indoctrination. From being told by her mother to promise she would kill non-believers, to being fed what she calls a “diet of Jew hatred,” Yasmine opens up about the everyday brainwashing that shaped her childhood and early womanhood. She describes how Islam demands the abandonment of humanity, and how the internal conflict between conscience and religious doctrine ultimately set her on a path of questioning and, eventually leaving Islam. 

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Dr. Tal Croitoru, is one of the only mental health professionals in Israel speaking out about the harms of transgender ideology. Tal, like many others, was sold on the idea that "trans" was simply a continuation of LGB and wouldn't stand a chance making it as an ideology in Israel, due to the religious population that generally values family, tradition, which on the surface seems incompatible with the notion that you can change sex. Well, things have changed in Israel in the last twenty years.

Israelis with "gender claims", as Tal calls them, are being approved for surgical and hormonal interventions with little to no psychological screening. While official numbers are not being released, Tal’s research suggests everyone who asks for “gender affirming care” is approved. Lawsuits over “correct pronoun” use have begun, with courts compelling the use of wrong sex pronouns. Sexual harassment claims have been used against companies and women who use male pronouns for males with gender delusions. Schools are beginning to institute the use of preferred pronouns, and doing so behind the backs of parents. Three males are now imprisoned with women in the (formerly) only women's prison in Israel. All of these violations are happening without any public debate. Tal is determined in her private practice, books and her own youtube channel to bring the truth of this ideology to the people of Israel.

(In Hebrew) Interview with retired nurse from the plastic surgery department at Sheba Hospital talking about male castration

4.5 year old boy gets semen frozen before chemical castration

SuperPharm Incident: adult male customer yells at female employee for calling him a man

Woman Sued By Trans-Identified Male For “Sexual Harassment” After Making “Transphobic” Social Media Posts

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Covered in this episode:

• Mary Lou Singleton’s call to serve women in birth and her experience watching midwifery turn into a standardized profession 

• Critiquing medicalized midwifery and those who adhere to Science™

• Unassisted Childbirth v. Free Birth Dogma

• What happens when transferring to the hospital unnecessarily becomes the worst thing that could happen in your birth? 

• The virtue of heroism in midwifery 

• Why Mary Lou supports the voluntary licensure model 

• Factors of homebirth death including breech and twins (highlighting two important studies) 

• The commodification of free birth “cool girl culture” what happens when you follow a trend instead of your intuition 

• What happens when women don’t get empowering risk assessment from either side of the birth pendulum? 

• Recommendations for women to tap into their intuition: To free birth or not to free birth?

• The role of responsibility for birth attendants 

• What in the world should an aspiring birth attendant do? Where can she learn? Who can she learn from?

• The value of having a woman at your birth who is willing to climb Everest with you  

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Birthing From Within by Pam England

Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin

Unassisted Childbirth by Laura Shanley

Physician- and midwife-attended home births Effects of breech, twin, and post-dates outcome data on mortality rates by Dr. Lewis Mehl

Perinatal death associated with planned home birth in Australia: population based study

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Dipiti is back to discuss our top 12 red flags to look out for before joining an in-person or online women's community. Want more? Be sure to check out the bonus content available here to Whose Body Is It paid Substack subscribers.

Included in the *Bonus Convo*

• Dipiti's intentions for joining BDSM communities
• Isabella’s intentions for joining radical feminism and birth liberation groups 

• How Isabella managed to avoid moving to an in person community of “liked-minded women”

• The subtle process of loyalty becoming currency and favoritism 

• Shedding light on why Dipiti and Isabella aren’t going back to a popular women’s festival

• When story telling is used as an implicit threat 

• Is radical feminism a cult?

• How “self-responsibility / victim consciousness” frameworks can be weaponized 

• How having a shared experience of losing friends / being ostracized for knowing what a woman is isn’t necessarily a strong enough foundation for a lasting friendship 

• How participating in MLMs creates an extraction lens on everyone you meet aka new connections are prioritized on them becoming your downline $$$ 

• How we deal with the guilt and shame of having promoted groups, companies, and influencers we’re no longer affiliated with

• The role of therapy after exiting cult-y spaces & narc abuse recovery 

• How constantly trying to get to the root of things became a disability and an inability to see the bigger picture that warped our sense of reality 

• Breaking the bubble of the fictional “us” & noticing exit patterns of former members of various online and in person groups

Episode Resources

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Women Who Run With The Wolves

Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing

Narc Abuse Recovery

How to Spot a Cult - BITE Model PDF

Other Whose Body Is It episodes with Dipiti

(Recorded in 2022) BDSM & Women’s Festivals episode with Dipiti

(Recorded in 2023) What Has Porn Done to Us?

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Today's guest, Kimberly Ann Johnson author of the best selling book The Fourth Trimester, works at the intersection of sex, birth, and trauma. Kimberly entered menopause in 2020 and, just as she had with postpartum and motherhood, began to explore this unique phase of female mammalian life with curiosity and spiritual sensitivity. The standard of perimenopause care -synthetic hormones commonly known as HRT - immediately struck her as out of order with her trust in female physiology. In this episode we examine the accusations of menopausal care negligence not just for refusing HRT, or radical ‘hormone-balancing’ diet regimens, but even down to beauty practices like face yoga and gua sha. Kimberly shares critical analysis of the pathology of women's reproductive life phases and suggests that menopause uninterrupted is the death rehearsal, inviting us to live more biologically.

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At 21, Emily was sure that by getting married and having kids she would more or less wind up living happily ever after. However, her relationship replicated some of her core wounds around growing up in a coercive control environment, and where talks around money were taboo. Emily wanted to leave her marriage, but all she had to her name was her car. In this time, she went back to school and got a degree in Women & Gender studies and with the analysis of Bell Hooks and Angela Davis, and the iron will earned from free birthing her second baby, she was finally ready to leave her abuser. It was only in the divorce process that she realized the full extent of the financial and physical abuse she survived.

Emily began fundraising to help support other mothers fighting for freedom from abusive marriages. Now, she’s turned that into the Mama Wilder Nonprofit. Along the way, she fell in love again with a man who in the truest sense is a protector and provider. This time she may not have had the pure idealism she had in her youth, but she knew that she deserved a redemptive love story, birth, and postpartum. In this episode Emily speaks to the importance of women initiating potentially uncomfortable conversations around prenups, property ownership, and life insurance policies with their partners.

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Natasha Vargas was a journalist, union organizer and classic leftist when she took on the topic of gender ideology. A beat reporter for Out, Jezebel, Vice (among many other leftist publications) she even sympathetically covered the entree of Fallon Fox into women’s MMA (he is the trans-identified male who would later become known for splitting lesbian fighter Tamikka Brents’ skull open). Through her journalism on this topic, as well as following what was happening in women-only colleges, she came to have a critical view of gender, but she hardly planned to make “TERF” content her main focus. After publishing in the American Conservative in 2017, she was canceled and fired from her dream job, as vitriolic lies spread about her online.

It wasn’t until she became a mother in 2021 that she truly peaked in her understanding of the differences between men and women. She is now “in devotion to the dyad,” organizing to protect physiological birth and breastfeeding and organizing against corporations that profit off the separation of mother and baby. Natasha is the founder of the Radical Moms Union, which stands for three things: biological norms over cultural demands, attachment over independence, and the mother-baby dyad. Despite these super pointed core values, her organization still manages to have a very diverse membership and leadership. Natasha’s message is an echo of second-wave feminism that’s the perfect combination of militant and matrifocal.

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