Whose Body Is It

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.

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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.

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In today's episode I speak with my friend Daniella Saar about the terrors of October 7th, the rise in global anti-semitism including the riots on college campuses, the reality of sharing borders with enemy states and the ethical concerns of awarding a so-called "Palestinian Journalist" for photographing murdered Israeli woman, Shani Louk, as her lifeless body was driven to Gaza by Hamas terrorists. 

If you're Jewish you've probably been asked "Why don't the Jews in Israel just go back to where they came from?!" Daniella discusses the sheer impossibility of this anti-zionist trope, the reality of descending from Holocaust survivors, and laments the 2024 reality of Israelis to consider where they might hide their children in the face of another on-ground invasion. 

Daniella also discusses how her politics have changed since the war, and why she continues to send her son to a school of Jewish, Muslim and Christian faith.

Daniella Saar is a mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, educator, lactation consultant and poet living in Jaffa, Israel.

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My dear friend Danielle Evans is back again, this time to talk about body hair through the lens of her expertise in nervous system body work. While it may be true that there are more urgent battles than armpit hair, this conversation goes so far beyond surface level talk on self-acceptance and trash talking modern beauty standards. We explore women's desire to remain intact and fully expressed in spite of societal conditioning to become smaller, erase ourselves, and numb out.

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Episode 90. A Case for Early Marriage & Early Childbearing│Mary Lou Singleton

Cesareans, breastfeeding struggles, neonatal intensive care, childhood illnesses and daycare have become the norm. The truth is, physiological birth is simpler in our 20s and postpartum care comes with the energy and adventurousness of youth and often the help of grandparents. As a culture we’ve focused solely on the advantages of putting off childbirth until a woman is financially stable, fixed in her goals, and settled with an ideal partner.

Ironically, in our safety obsessed culture, we regard women having babies in their 20s as reckless or naive. We term it “early childbearing,” despite having children in our early 20s historically, actually being delayed. In this episode, Mary Lou Singleton -a wife, grandmother, midwife and nurse practitioner- who has spent over 3 decades witnessing women walk through the portals of birth and motherhood, makes a strong case for why women should start their families in their early 20s. Mary Lou shares her take on TRAD wife culture and offers practical wisdom for women in their 30s and 40s, dating for longterm commitment & family building.

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Today's guest is N3VLYNNN; a multidisciplinary artist, wellness practitioner, and dancer. While working in urban, "progressive" cities, N3VLYNNN was drawn to “queer” art and politics, but it wasn’t long before she began to see things that well, seemed a little weird. For one thing, a man, over six feet tall, who called himself a woman, sexually assaulted her friend.

Well before the peak of gender madness, back in 2013, she made a youtube video called “Transwomen Are Not Female.” The backlash to her foray into gender critical politics was swift and merciless, very nearly wiping her artistic efforts from the internet.

As time went on she noticed “women” were being deleted altogether, even from wellness spaces like community acupuncture. N3VLYNNN’s days of letting it rest and holding space for ‘true trans’ sufferers were coming to an end. She came to understand that transgenderism is a colonial effort, not only in these arts and wellness spaces where women were made to feel privileged and unwelcome, but also in a global sense, where transgenderism is exported to other cultures and indigenous histories distorted or erased.

In 2022 she made another video, this time exploring the stories of black women who were formerly trans-identified. In highlighting black female detransitioners, she was thoroughly deplatformed, with her business and art accounts being locked, deleted or otherwise completely lost to her overnight. Despite this, N3VLYNNN continued to pursue her art, writing and research. In this episode, we dive deep into some of that research, including the push to trans the dead, erasing black women role models like Pauli Murray, who has been lauded as a “nonbinary ancestor.”

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Many of you probably remember Leigh Janet Marshall’s story of childhood trans identification, followed by sterilization and detransition. Leigh is back today for an update on her journey since her appearance on the podcast nearly one year ago.

After the recording, Leigh was met with both heroism and villainization. Peers claimed that she had weaponized her experience to harm 'true trans' sufferers and even condemned her for supposedly using her life experience to ‘fuel right wing extremism.’ The silver lining to the process of sharing her story was the revival of sisterhood in her life but it also came with a difficult period of over-identification with detransition.

Now, she is ‘detransitioning from detransition.’

Leigh reminds us that in politicizing our identities, we remain in our intellect and has written her testimony indulging the overactive, analytical mind in a productive way, while giving her the space to remember that thoughts are not the full truth, and identities are merely waypoints on a lifetime’s worth of shifts and evolution. Through this process of reacquainting with the body, she has also healed from violent panic attacks and disordered eating. Joining ‘the real world,’ in her words, and dropping the stories she held about how others would condemn her for her past, she has made connections ten times over what she lost.

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When nine-year-old Elle found out she was going to be a big sister, she was overjoyed. She helped raise her younger brother and as they grew up, she was happy to act as a support, confidante, and the first-call-in-a-crisis. But when she became pregnant, her brother’s attitude toward his sister changed completely. He never acknowledged her daughter, never wanted to look at or hold her as a baby, and Elle ended up falling out with him. She did not understand why he turned on her until many years later, when her brother called her to let her know that he was ‘a lesbian woman’ now. 

He shared that his treatment of her stemmed from his jealousy of her, for one thing he'd never gotten to get his nails done with their mother. Elle began looking into autogynephilia and realized that her brother was living in a porn-sick, sex-obsessed alternate reality. He had quit working and started an OnlyFans, where he dressed up as an underage girl. He spent $14,000 on laser hair removal, plus hormones, and surgeries. He demanded financial support from their mother and let bills pile up until creditors were harassing his parents. 

While Elle's parents have extended themselves financially, emotionally and physically to support her brother, finding support for themselves has not been easy in the trans-affirming culture.

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It’s not exactly Millennials' fault that many of us are stuck in extended adolescence. We’re bearing a wound around adulthood that didn’t start with our generation. We’re working under fluorescent lighting instead of under the sun, hustling in the city instead of in the small tribes we evolved from, and striving for the “empowerment” the Spice Girls promised. Endocrine disruptors surround us. We work with screens instead of with our hands. The conveniences of living non-biologically are certainly comfortable, but they come with consequences: we've become soft, immature, our vitality compromised.

Many women in our thirties are rethinking the cultural programming that discouraged us from having our babies at an age that would afford us the energy and resilience to more easily bear the challenges of motherhood, while garnering the support from our own parents. There are plenty of benefits to building up wisdom, life experience, and financial resources before you have kids, but there’s grief too. What happens when we exclusively put our self-worth into our careers or accomplishments instead of embodying the portal of life and death that is our birthright as women?

Today's guest, body worker and poly-vagal nerve practitioner Danielle Evans, helps people heal their nervous system. Danielle shares about her process deprogramming from liberal feminist rhetoric and discusses how the surface of our skin connects to the deepest layers of our nervous system. Danielle reminds us that the body remembers everything from pre-birth to our present moment, and explains how we can self-source safety in our body and quiet the anxious mind.

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Growing up Latter Day Saints, Olivia was held to very strict expectations. The church and homeschooling offered glimmers of women’s spiritual power, but Olivia needed greater freedom of expression. For instance, she chafed at her family’s outpouring of grief when she revealed she was interested in dating women. She tried to be patient with them as they grieved her inevitable separation from them in the afterlife, but she felt rejected. This, along with the restrictions internalized from her childhood, drove her to confuse authentic liberation with the so-called "liberal" ideologies she encountered in adolescence.

It began with RuPaul’s Drag Race. The show seemed misogynist to Olivia, but her friends made it very clear that she’d need to adopt even the most appalling caricatures of womanhood, “trans lesbians” if she wanted to maintain access to her social circle and dating pool. She understood “you either get with this agenda or you die socially,” when she witnessed the ostracism of lesbians who resisted. The logical conclusion of this liberal feminist propaganda was her full indoctrination into another religion, with its own set of patriarchal expectations. Following in the footsteps of her liberal feminist friends, she became a “sugar baby” and started an OnlyFans. Her “manager,” aka her John, soon became her pimp, supplying her with drugs to cope with the effects of being trafficked, all the while filming her degradation for other men to consume. She believed her non-binary identity would somehow protect her from the sexual violence women experience, disassociating from her female body even as men tortured her. It was not until she realized that her choices were exposing not just her, but her girlfriend, to extreme violence, that she knew she had to exit. Olivia has since found her own source of spirituality, bodily integrity, and a reclamation of womanhood through connecting to her matrilineal line and finding the healing power of plants.

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