Live: Women's Rights are Human Rights

In this final episode (for now) of On the Engender, we say goodbye to our amazing Podcast Producer Amanda Aitken, who has started a new career path as a carpenter. 

We are also delighted to introduce Engender's new Executive Director, Catherine Murphy, who joins hosts Alys and Amanda to talk a bit about herself and her background, as well as what the future has in store for Engender and for the feminist movement in Scotland.

Recommendations for this episode:

• Podcast: The first episode of Of the Engender! 
• Podcast: Dolly Parton's America (via Apple or WNYC Studios)
• Book: Klara and the Sun
• TV: The Great British Sewing Bee
• Book: Her Country - How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be.
• Documentary: Shut up and Sing
• Podcast: Cocaine & Rhinestones - the history of country music made in the 20th century.
• TV: Alma's Not Normal

Access a transcript of this episode here.

On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.

[CN: This episode contains mentions of rape, abuse, racism, islamophobia, FGM and the death penalty]

In this episode, Engender's Alys Mumford interviews Baroness Helena Kennedy on her work as a human rights lawyer and fighting for women's equality, as well as looking at the experiences of women in the criminal justice system, and whether the law can bring about cultural change. 

Following on from Part 1 of Misogyny - A Human Rights Issue,  they also discuss her role in chairing The Independent Working Group on Misogyny and Criminal Justice in Scotland.

Resources:

• Eve was Framed
• Misogyny - A Human Rights Issue. 

Recommendations:

• Cut from the Same Cloth?: Muslim Women on Life in Britain - Edited by Sabeena Akhtar.

Access a transcript of the episode here. 

On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.

[CN: This episode contains mentions of rape and online abuse.]

In this episode of On the Engender, hosts Alys Mumford and Amanda Aitken are joined by Eilidh Dickson to discuss the final report of the Misogyny Working Group: Misogyny - A Human Rights Issue.

Resources:

• Misogyny - A Human Rights Issue. 

Recommendations: 

• Interior Design Masters via BBC iPlayer
• Picking wild garlic 
• ‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: How Lauryn Hill Became Music’s Great Dual Threat

Access a transcript of this episode here. 

On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.

On International Women's Day, Engender were joined by Professor Akwugo Emejulu and Assa Samaké-Roman to discuss Black feminism in Europe. Listen to their conversation here. 

To find out more about their work, follow Professor Akwugo Emejulu here, and Assa Samaké-Roman here on Twitter. 

Find the book, To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe, on Pluto Books here.

You can access a transcript of the episode here.

On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.

This week On The Engender, hosts Alys and Amanda discuss abortion rights in Scotland with Alice Murray and Lucy Grieve from Back Off Scotland, and hear about their campaign for the Scottish Government to introduce 'buffer zones' (protest-free areas) around clinics that provide abortion services across Scotland. 

They also talk to Jane Carnall about the work and history of Abortion Rights Edinburgh and get an update on abortion policy in Scotland from Engender's Policy Manager, Jill Wood. 

Resources mentioned in this episode are:

• Gender Edit of the Party Manifestos
• Joint Report, 2016: Our Bodies, Our Choice: The Case for a Scottish Approach to Abortion
• Back Off Scotland Twitter and Instagram
• Edinburgh Abortion Rights Twitter and Facebook

Recommendations for this episode are:

• Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now by Jenny Brown from Lighthouse Books.
• Glasgow Women's Library - Stride with Pride: LGBTQ Heritage Walking Tour
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Rebecca Skloot
• The Great Pottery Throw Down

Access a transcript of the episode here.

On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.

In this episode of On the Engender, hosts Alys and Amanda look back over the podcast episodes from 2021.

From PSED to Pass the Mic, the Young Parent Penalty to policy participation, as well as elections, unions and city planning, this past year's episodes will have something for every feminist listener. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of the new episodes in 2022! 

You can find all of the On the Engender episodes here.

You can access a transcript of the episode here.

On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.

In this episode, we look again at the Public Sector Equality Duty in Scotland and discuss how it could be used to advance equality for all women.

Host Alys Mumford is joined by Engender's Policy Manager, Jill Wood, Kirsty McNeill, the Policy and Research Officer at the Coalition for Racial Equality (CRER), and Lindsey Millen, Policy and Development Manager at Close The Gap to discuss all things PSED. 

Resources mentioned in this episode are:

• An example of Jill Wood ripping a (lack of) EQIA into shreds in Engender's response to Local Place Plan regulations p.7-8
• CRER's report "Equality in Glasgow 2021" and blog on the PSED review
• Close the Gap's guidance for public bodies on PSED

Recommendations from this episode are:

• The West Wing and The West Wing Weekly
• Keeping up to date with the Sheku Bayoh inquiry, including on Aamer Anwar's Twitter
• Black Widow and Dr Who
• (as yet uncreated...PSED TikTok dance)

Access a transcript of this episode here and listen back to our episode on PSED from 2020: The Public Sector Equality Duty with Marsha Scott of Scottish Women's Aid

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Another special episode of On the Engender as we are joined by author Eve Livingston and trade union organiser Suki Sangha,  hot off the heels of an event held in September. 

Alys Mumford and Amanda Aitken chat with Eve and Suki about how unions can do more to represent women, how worker power can bring about changes for equality, and how intersectional organising can bring about the world we want to see.

Recommendations from this episode are:

• Sarah Jaffe and her book 'Work Won't Love You Back
• Joan Eardley: a centenary of lives and landscapes at Glasgow Women's Library
• 'You are not replaceable' from Vittles Magazine
• Photos of the protests and solidarity actions at COP26

Access a transcript of this episode here and watch the webinar here.

On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.

On the Engender hosts, Alys Mumford and Amanda Aitken are joined by Jessie Duncan, Engender's Equal Representation Development Officer, Ethan Young, the Civic Participation Manager at Inclusion Scotland, and Kirn Kaur, a human rights lawyer and activist, to discuss participation and representation in policymaking. 

The Equal Representation in Politics Toolkit can be found here.

Recommendations from this episode are: 

• Cook As You Are by Ruby Tandoh
• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• The Right Sort of Girl by Anita Rani 
• Impeachment: American Crime Story TV series
• The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

Access a transcript of this episode here.

On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.

An exciting special episode of On the Engender today as we are joined by author Leslie Kern and urbanism expert Daisy Narayanan, hot off the heels of an event held in September. 

Alys Mumford and Amanda Aitken chat with Leslie, Daisy and Engender's Policy and Parliamentary Manager Eilidh Dickson about planning, transport, safety, care work, and how we can build feminist spaces. 

Content note: this episode includes reference to Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa's murders. 

Recommendations from this episode are:

• Flâneuse by Lauren Elkin
• Following Glasgow Women's Library, Talat Yaqoob, Louise MacDonald, Engender and Leslie Kern on Twitter
• Feminism, Interrupted by Lola Olufemi
• Schitt's Creek
• She Settles in the Shields: 10 years on 
• How we live now: reimagining spaces with Matrix Feminist Design Collective
• Feminist Housing Activism blog series

Access a transcript of this episode here and watch the webinar here.

On the Engender is produced for Engender by Amanda Aitken. Jingle by Bossy Love.