Whose Body Is It

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. 

We also discuss the rise of antisemitism and defenses of Islam since October 7, the Western liberal insistence that Islam is a “religion of peace,” and the troubling ways third-wave feminism romanticizes submission and abuse. Yasmine offers a candid critique of hijab, and recruitment of young women into Islam in North America and Europe.

Yasmine shares her journey from being told the light she loved was “the devil” to now choosing her own guiding light. Yasmine speaks with raw honesty about her relationship with her mother, the accusations of Islamophobia she faces, and her ongoing resistance to brainwashing in all its forms.

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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.

Substack bonus: Women aren't men without penises. My completely maddening phone call with the manager of a co-working & exercise space in Tel Aviv

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(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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In this episode with Mary Lou Singleton, we explore her lifelong call to serve women in birth, and how she witnessed midwifery shift from an intuitive, woman-centered craft into a standardized profession shaped by regulation and Science™-driven conformity. We unpack the tensions between medicalized midwifery and the rise of free birth culture, the dogmas that have taken root on both sides, and the pressure some women feel when transferring to a hospital becomes framed as the ultimate failure. Mary Lou explains why she supports voluntary licensure, reflects on the role of heroism in midwifery, and highlights essential factors in homebirth risks— including breech, twins, and two key studies every woman should know.

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Birthing From Within by Pam England

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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

Connect with Dipiti on Instagram

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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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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⁠Hostages and Missing Families Forum: Information, Updates and Donations⁠

⁠Survivors of Sexual Violence Advocacy Group⁠

⁠Article about the controversy over photo of Shani Louk being abducted⁠

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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.

Many will argue that shaving is a hygiene practice like clipping your toenails or brushing your teeth, but in actuality, hair removal practices are purely cultural, and have nothing to do with cleanliness. Whether influenced by the commercialized bodies in porn or mass culture, is it any wonder most people have never seen an adult woman’s body unaltered by hair removal? Or that body hair on women is seen as masculine, increasingly becoming associated with “nonbinary” and “trans” identities?

We hope that the ideas presented in this episode challenge you to consider your body hair as more than an aesthetic choice or preference and instead a part of your human physiology- a essential sensory tool for interfacing with your environment.

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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.

Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult

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