Why Girls Run the World but Men Run for Office

Nothing like a holiday to turn up the heat on hard conversations. In this Season 2 Finale, Kassia and Sabrina reflect on conversations they've had with family and friends who don't necessarily agree with their points of view, including:

• Sabrina's history of heated arguments with her uncle and how they finally managed to have a calm conversation about abortion
• Kassia's tendency to come in a little too hot with family members who disagree on humans rights issues like vaccination
• The tragic moment in 2021 when gun violence hit too close to home and how Kassia is trying to find the human side of every story

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We’ve never met a woman without a complex relationship to her own hair. Shorter, longer, curlier, straighter, lighter, darker, up, down. For many women—especially Black women—hair can be a complicated thing.

Founder of Parting the Roots, Simone Wright is working to educate people and organizations on the history, politics, and significance of Black hair and the Black Canadian identity. She joins Sabrina to talk about:

• The historical importance of Black hair in pre-colonial Africa, how the slave trade suppressed this connection, and the ways non-Black communities still attempt to control Black hair today. 
• The role outside forces and intersectionality play in a woman’s relationship with her hair
• Her journey to embrace natural hair and the response she’s received personally and professionally

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130 years. That's how long it will take to achieve gender equity at the highest levels of global politics. Around the world, women are still less likely to be encouraged to run for public office at every level - this starts with what we tell young girls about what is possible and ultimately influences women's lack of confidence to step into the race. Erin Loos Cutraro founded She Should Run to give women from all walks of life the tools they need to run for public office. In this re-release from season one, Erin joins Kassia and Sabrina to talk about:

• The double standards that women endure when running for public office
• Why representation matters and what changes when women hold elected positions
• How she manages to remain hopeful about the future of our democracy

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Contrary to what society would like us to believe, not every woman wants to be a mother. Some women regret the choice altogether.

Orna Donath was only 16 years old when knew with certainty that she never wanted to be a mother. In the decades that followed she never waivered in that decision. Today, Orna is a sociologist and author in Tel Aviv, Israel. In this rerelease of one of our most beloved season one episodes, she joins Kassia and Sabrina to talk about:

• Her personal experience of the stigma society places on women who choose not to mother
• Her thought-provoking research on women who deeply regret their decision to have children
• How we can begin to untangle womanhood from motherhood

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Every year, one in five women in the United States struggles with mental health. Income disparities, caregiving responsibilities, higher rates of poverty and violence are just a few of the risk factors that leave women especially susceptible to chronic stress.

Dr. Beth Ricanati is no stranger to burnout. She was the mother of three children and a physician working full time when she realized she needed to prioritize self-care. At the recommendation of a friend, she turned to baking bread as a way to build ritual and community into her weekly routine. Dr. Ricanati joins Sabrina to discuss:

The mental health crisis in America and why women are more likely to experience chronic stress than men
Why creating meaningful rituals with our hands can benefit mental health
The need to shift away from self-care toward community care to address the underlying causes of women’s mental health issues

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In honor of Sexual Health Month and our recent conversation with Zoe Mendelson, Sabrina and Kassia are opening up - like really, intimately opening up - about sexual health. We're walking through Zoe’s book, Pussypedia, discussing some of its more shocking takeaways, and our relationships with our mothers who were often our own source of education when we were young girls. In this no-holds-barred conversation, we end up talking about:

• Not soaping your slit and other things we all wish we knew about sexual health
• Masturbation and how much pleasure we each might want
• Sex toys, what to call them, and who's never gone shopping for one

More personal than ever before, Sabrina and Kassia bear all including a quite shocking admission. Like what you hear and want more? Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world. 

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When Zoe Mendelson first googled squirting, she had no idea the rabbit hole of sexual education she was about to go down. The internet was riddled with inconsistent information and even experts disagreed on some of the simpler questions she was curious about.

An information designer by training, Zoe became passionate about curating a comprehensive platform for accessible and inclusive sex education. She has since dedicated the better part of a decade to learning about, writing about, and talking about pussies. She joins Sabrina Merage Naim to talk about:

• Why we need to take back a more gender and organ inclusive use of the word pussy
• The role of the patriarchy in disinformation around people's pussies
• Building Pussypedia - a free, bilingual encyclopedia of the pussy that aims to address the lack of quality, accessible information about our bodies on the internet.

We also discuss the launch of her new book, Pussypedia. Like what you hear and want more? Sign up for our newsletter full of episode updates and resources on issues impacting women around the world. 

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Around the world, 1 in 3 women experiences physical or sexual violence in their lifetime. In India, where a woman is raped every fifteen minutes, the outlook is especially dire.

ElsaMarie D'Silva walked away from a twenty-year career in aviation to launch SafeCity - the world's foremost crowdmapping platform for gender-based violence. An entrepreneur, activist, and survivor, she joins Kassia to talk about:

• The various forms of gender-based violence—including physical, sexual, and psychological— and the prevalence of it in India
• What happens when survivors have  safe spaces to share their stories
• How stories and data can empower women and their communities to take action.

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Did you know the word “homosexual” didn’t appear in the Bible until 1946? Neither did we. And neither did Kathy Baldock until a gay friend said, “Even God doesn’t love me,” and Kathy, a heterosexual, practicing Christian, went looking for answers.

Today, Kathy is an author (Walking The Bridgeless Canyon), LGBTQ advocate, international speaker and educator. She has done more research than almost anyone in the world on the origins of Christianity's discrimination against the LGBTQ community. She joins Sabrina to discuss:

• How two words became combined and mistranslated to “homosexual” in the 1946 Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible                                                                                       
• The ways in which the Church's relationship to the LGBTQ community has evolved
• How an antiquated understanding of procreation, among other things, led to gender discrimination in the Church

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Women account for less than 10% of leadership positions in governments around the world. At this rate, we will not achieve gender equality in these highest positions of power for 130 years.

Marissa Conway is not surprised. Neither intimidated nor impressed by the foreign policy sector dominated by older, white men, Marissa has had a front row seat to the patriarchal systems in which policies are made. A vivacious young analyst and activist, Marissa made a name for herself founding the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy. Based in England, she has supported political campaigns,,consulted governments around the world and joins Kassia to discuss:

• How to deconstruct patriarchal power dynamics in foreign policy
• The ways she sees governments, capitalism, and Western ideals co-opting feminism
• What feminism means to her and whether or not it can be achieved without women in positions of power

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