#1618 Forget Equality, Embrace the Feminism of Freedom - Breaking entirely free from the structures of White supremacy and heteropatriarchy
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 3/23/2024
Equality has been at the heart of civil rights movements for decades but what we have failed to see is that in striving for equality we cannot help but reinforce the unquestioned preexisting structures of society which, themselves, may be at fundamental odds with true freedom for all.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Marcie Bianco — Breaking Free - with Charlotte Clymer - Politics and Prose - Air Date 9-23-23
Watch author Marcie Bianco's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
Ch. 2: Angela Saini The Patriarchs 'How Men Came to Rule' - The Overpopulation Podcast - Air Date 2-6-24
By detailing the diversity of human arrangements, including the prevalence of egalitarian and matrilineal societies around the world – past and present – Angela reveals that male-supremacy is neither natural nor immutable.
Ch. 3: The Fraud Of 'White Feminism' w/ Kyla Schuller - The Majority Report - Air Date 1-20-22
Emma hosts Kyla Schuller, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, to discuss her recent book The Trouble With White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: The Fraud Of 'White Feminism' w Kyla Schuller Part 2 - The Majority Report - Air Date 1-20-22
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on what the path beyond equality and toward freedom looks like
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left Podcast |
| 0:06.9 | in which we look at the idea that although equality has been at the heart of |
| 0:11.2 | civil rights movements for decades. |
| 0:13.2 | What we have failed to see is that in striving for equality, we cannot help but reinforce |
| 0:19.6 | the unquestioned pre-existing structures of society which themselves may be at fundamental |
| 0:26.3 | odds with true freedom for all. |
| 0:29.3 | So maybe we should forget about equality and focus on freedom. |
| 0:34.0 | Sources today include politics and pros, the overpopulation podcast, the majority report, |
| 0:40.3 | and chair in transgender studies with additional members-only clips from the majority report and the |
| 0:46.6 | Oprah Population Podcast. Equality is a lie. It is a myth perpetuated to coax women into complicity with their |
| 0:59.6 | oppression. Women are not equal to men. |
| 1:03.0 | No two people are equal. |
| 1:05.0 | We are not born equal or with equal advantages. |
| 1:08.0 | We do not experience life equally. |
| 1:11.0 | And while we all eventually die, we do not encounter death on equal terms. |
| 1:17.4 | We each come from different backgrounds, possess different qualities and talents, cultivate different knowages and expertise, |
| 1:25.0 | accrue unique experiences, |
| 1:27.0 | have distinct desires and needs, |
| 1:29.0 | and have been systematically advantaged |
| 1:32.0 | or disadvantaged based on the social identities we have either |
| 1:36.1 | willingly chosen or had imposed upon us by others. |
| 1:41.1 | It is not simply that we are not equal because we are different. |
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