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All around the world, Indigenous women are fighting to save their language from systemic extinction. We look into a few examples in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Yves breaks down the history of Dr. Margaret S. Collins, the first professionally trained Black woman entomologist.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

<p>Being single comes with a lot of perks, but also some specific problems that remind us all its good to have friends.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p> 

One of the world’s unsung heroes – at least outside of Italy – is a brave woman who stood up to an insidious and longstanding custom and made her country a better place for it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but—as Biography of a Revolution: The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt (U of California Press, 2025) shows—the long history of women's activism that created the intellectual and politi ... Show More

Today we highlight and celebrate a couple of alternative libraries.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Iraq’s amendments to its personal status law have been controversial. Critics say the changes could roll back women’s rights, with serious implications for marriage, divorce, and child custody. So why has this shift happened and what does it really mean for girls and women across ... Show More

Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023), Wendy H. Wong argues that we cannot allow that to happen. Exploring ... Show More

GLORIA STEINEM – who dedicates her life to ensuring we know that we are not broken, but were born into a system intended to break us – lives in the DNA of millions who are giving birth to movements or to themselves. She reminds us why there’s nothing more radical than telling th ... Show More

Brittany Butler spent nine years as a targeting officer within the CIA's Directorate of Operations, Counterterrorism Center. Brittany has worked both at Langley and in the Middle East and has first-hand knowledge of how the CIA recruits spies and how intelligence organisations di ... Show More

Sofi Antonellini is a passionate feminist activist from Argentina currently living in Amsterdam. She works as a program manager for a Syrian feminist organization and is part of different feminist collectives involved in decolonial practice and intersectional feminism. Sofi says: ... Show More

We conclude the heinous tale of Volkswagen's slave plantation in Brazil.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.