Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist, as well as the of founder Feminist Current and host of The Same Drugs podcast. Meghan was thrust in to the spotlight after getting kicked off Twitter in 2018 for using male pronouns to describe a man. Her work addresses a wide range of topics including free speech, pop culture, politics, and various underrepresented issues. In this episode Meghan and I get into the obstacles of not fitting in to the confines of the modern feminist collective and ‘wave feminism,’ taking up the task of combating insular conversations, and weighing the financial and social risks of speaking out. We also discuss some of the factors putting mainstream feminism in a tough spot as well as accepting some hard truths about men consuming women as an industry. Meghan also shares how she maintains her emotional hygiene to stay strong, centered, and even happy in order to sustainably continue her work. Feminist Current: https://www.feministcurrent.com The Same Drugs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-04S1vzWPy3G8omi0wVvA ➢➢➢ ???? RESOURCES FOR SOVEREIGN WOMEN | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/free-resources LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whose-body-is-it/id1597517757 LISTEN ON SPOTIFY | https://open.spotify.com/show/5PMs7LUCaKiH8YsxgXSKJH SUPPORT | https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/whosebodyisit?locale.x=en_US COACHING W/ ISABELLA | https://app.squarespacescheduling.com/schedule.php?appointmentType=18469781&owner=20027254 NEWSLETTER | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/newsletter-sign-up SHOP STICKERS | https://whosebodyisit.shop/ INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/whosebodyisit/ ODYSEE | https://odysee.com/@whosebodyisit:f TWITTER | https://twitter.com/whosebodyisit ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn6lWomQbXE

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Nlaka’pamux and Diné Nations scholar and radical feminist Cherry Smiley is done with the academy. She began her academic career studying prostitution and male violence against indigenous women and the space to study, reflect and write, she grew angry. “As you’re learning and growing, learning from women who came before you, the anger is spilling out everywhere,” she said of her consciousness raising process. It was cold comfort to know that so many of the harms she had witnessed or personally experienced were so much bigger than her. Writing about prostitution and female subordination, she encountered institutional bias against heterodoxy. Whether it was while hunting for a faculty position, or seeking publication for her articles, Cherry found that the academy “only want you if you’re going to do what they tell you to,” and for her, this meant reciting the litany ‘sex work is work’ and ‘transwomen are women.’ Institutional orthodoxy was not the worst of it, though. The hostility she faced from resource officers and faculty for her ‘transphobic’ politics prevented her from accessing resources, and left her feeling alienated and hopeless. Radical feminist texts helped her feel less alone, and as it has for so many women, saved her life. In this episode Cherry discusses what the dominant discourse gets wrong about colonialism and asks why it's always women who are given all the rules. Cherry's Website | https://cherrysmiley.com/ Buy Cherry's Book from Spinifex Press | https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/shop/p/9781925950649 Learn from Cherry at Women's Studies Online | https://wmstonline.com/ Support the Podcast | https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/whosebodyisit?locale.x=en_US Shop Activist Stickers | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/shop Whose Body Is It | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/ ---- Time by ASHUTOSH | https://soundcloud.com/grandakt | Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 | Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Gf8w_pv4A

Today we continue the conversation around the dovetailing of gender identity and colonization of indigenous populations with New Zealand Maori activist and organizer Michelle Uriarau. Michelle is the co-founder of Women's Action Group Southwest Victoria and Mana Wāhine Kōrero and began her activist work with refugees in Australia. Michelle was radicalized on the issue of synthetic sex because of its potentially genocidal impact on Maori populations. “Indigeneity brings a unique perspective from other women,” she says, “we see gender identity as a second colonization and we are not even sure we will survive it.” Through colonization Michelle notes, "language is removed by force, you speak, read, think, dream in your language. Everything that makes you you is expressed through language, so when it’s removed, can you imagine what that does to you? It leaves you like an empty vessel." In this empty vessel, post-modern, western, European, and academic paradigms can be imposed. Michelle sees a real and present danger to the Maori people, who already experience higher rates of suicide, incarceration, and now with the imposition of gender ideology, sterilization and extermination of future generations. We discuss the organizing strategy and tactics of feminist activists in Australia and New Zealand and break down the violence and media spin following Kellie Jay Keen's Let Women Speak Auckland event in March. Watch Michelle's Speech at the #LetWomenSpeak event in Melbourne on March 18 2023 | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTBLB0CizsFTu-oLb_Onq0g Follow Mana Wāhine Kōrero on Twitter | https://twitter.com/MKorero?fbclid=IwAR1kjYePqxVEVLFTej6XkrhG37oJ9FdbcAqFRQS9M5VuSA4m7kwvPldG8qY Read Michelle's Writing | https://www.speakupforwomen.nz/post/it-is-by-women-and-by-land-that-the-people-are-given-life?fbclid=IwAR3XnvcG1916Jd2Lm1isrSTS1IVoUu0pLW2apHvrUNdcTeUnKJS9ExlXZBA Support Mana Wāhine Kōrero | https://manawahinekorero.printmighty.co.nz/?fbclid=IwAR0ZmL84jx11NVY7m_VsAMTWm3HTqVqaJYO5g4kg-zVbyeZObuNiC9eJmTI Listen to Di Landy's interview about the violence at #LetWomenSpeak Auckland, NZ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7nLz9vSn8s&t=83s Support the Podcast | https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/whosebodyisit?locale.x=en_US Shop Activist Stickers | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/shop Whose Body Is It | https://www.whosebodyisit.com/ ---- Time by ASHUTOSH | https://soundcloud.com/grandakt | Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 | Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nve115X6Q54