Alia Dastagir, Author of To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person

Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry

Peace By Peace Productions

Politics, News

3.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

There is a rapist presiding over the United States. That rapist has directed his government to gut federal efforts to protect women from violence of all sorts. Health and Human Services fired nearly all of its staff at the Division of Violence Prevention. The office on violence against women has removed all funding opportunities from its website and reports are coming in that all of the grants it issues are being cancelled. Online, platforms owned by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg–billionaires who support Trump and his regime–own giant social media platforms rife with digital violence against women and seemingly no efforts at all to curtail it. It is a dangerous time to be a woman. This has always been true, but it is especially true in Trump’s America.

Our guest for this episode is Alia Dastagir. Dastagir is an award-winning journalist and former reporter for USA Today who was one of eight U.S. recipients of the prestigious Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. Her book on women and online abuse, “To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online,” is now available.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Alyssa Milano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. Last year, Amazon was the world's largest corporate fire of renewable energy.
0:41.3	Seeing more and more of our energy come from wind bombs like this one.
0:48.3	Guys, what happened to recording that the solar farms?
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1:01.0	To learn more, visit about amazon.com at UK forward slash sustainability.
1:12.8	Whoa there. Victoria's had a Friday night to remember. But now she's outside in the pouring rain and... Oh, what? You are joking. I've got no data. How are we going to get home?
1:17.4	But then she remembers she's with EE.
1:20.0	Yes, Uber still works.
1:21.7	So then she...
1:23.5	Uber's on me, guys. Should we get a kebab?
1:25.8	Use essential apps like Uber and WhatsApp even when you run out of data.
1:29.8	Search E.E. Mobile.
1:31.4	Stay connected at 0.5 megabits per second.
1:33.7	Terms apply.
1:37.8	You've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slabs, and disgusting animals. Your Twitter account is several...
1:47.0	Only Rosie O'Donnell.
1:50.0	Frankly, I know you're going to say it's a terrible thing to say, but it couldn't have happened.
1:58.0	It didn't happen. And she would not have been the chosen one.
2:04.4	President Trump's defense of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh took a sharp turn last night
2:09.1	when he publicly criticized the woman who claims Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high school.
2:14.6	The president slammed Christine Blasey Ford's Senate testimony during a political
2:18.5	rally in Mississippi. She's shocked that I picked her. It's like an state of shock.
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