Educator A.J. Hostak and I discuss his feminist journey as it relates to masculinity, vulnerability, and building coalitions. We talk about how the 10 year gap in our ages is relevant for the cultural change underway, too, as more younger men are ready to join feminist labor.

I interviewed educator and teaching artist Joshua Lewis about his journey of engaging feminist learning as a white cis man. We talk about tears, hierarchies of masculinity, and the theft of the self that patriarchy inflicts on little boys.

I dialogue with one of my clients about his journey as a white man learning to engage in feminist reflection and labor. We talk about vulnerability, why the work is hard, and how it is that feminism is about love and how love is a spiritual practice.

I had an important conversation with Stephanie Drury, trauma specialist and the brilliant host of the forum Stuff Christian Culture Likes. Listen to us talk about abortion, cis men's defense mechanisms, grief, Christian practices vs. Christian theocracy, and where we find our hope amidst the rise of white Christian nationalism.

Part of traumatic experience, as connected to structural violence, is the ways in which our knowledge of the world is gaslight, denied, and minimized. How do we reclaim that knowledge? How does mind-body connection help us access and speak our knowledge?

In the beginning of this series on trauma, we will ask questions like: What is the relationship between patriarchy and refusing our own felt experience of vulnerability? How does patriarchy interrupt our own natural healing mechanisms, such as grief? And what kind of knowledge of the world does traumatic experience help us access?

What happens when defense mechanisms are protecting power and privilege? What are ways through this impasse in our relationships? And why is connecting with our body so important as we move through impasse and grow and change?

Part 1 in a series explaining how enacting defense mechanisms are part of learning what feminist psychoanalyst Deborah Britzman calls "difficult knowledge." This episode hones in on the defense mechanisms often embedded in heterosexual relationships—including what often happens when women speak up to men about patriarchal dynamics in their relationship (such as unequal household labor being exported onto women). I also introduce the new coaching service for couples I will be launching soon.

What moment in your life, perhaps your childhood, best reminds you of your innate capacity to resist social scripts of conformity that never made sense to you? Why are adults sleeping as global warming heads toward us and why are so many kids waking up and demanding change? And what is the connection between our unconscious, our creativity, and finding ways to build better worlds together? I ask these questions and meditate on the dearly beloved feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa.

How would you describe how spiritual awakening connects to 1) our own capacity to do our true work in the world and 2) our own capacity to help others do their true work in the world? This episode is a 20-minute meditation on these questions, which for me are at the heart of living into our creative life, feminist life, and spiritual life together.