UFYB 205: Not Identifying As a Feminist: A Conversation with Advanced Certification in Feminist Coaching Graduates Amy Logan, Brig Johnson, Linda Street, and Maggie Reyes
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Are you hesitant to identify as a feminist? Conversely, do you struggle to understand why any woman WOULDN’T want to identify as a feminist? Cultural messaging around what feminism means is so pervasive that even proud feminists often have to shed cultural narratives that feminists are angry, humorless man-haters. When you look at the history of feminism through an intersectional lens, it becomes even clearer why some women - especially BIPOC women - may not identify with the movement.
In this episode, I am joined by four of my Advanced Certification in Feminist Coaching (ACFC) graduates to discuss their discomfort with the label prior to joining the certification, and how ACFC changed their relationship to feminism. Whether you strongly identify as a feminist, or you’re unsure about whether you want to be one and what that even means, this episode will help you understand your own blind spots around why other people may not relate to this movement as you do.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, |
| 0:14.0 | and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life. And now here's your |
| 0:19.3 | host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach, Carla Lohanthile. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello, my chickens. I am so excited about this episode. This is one of the kinds of conversations |
| 0:36.6 | that I think need to be happening more in kind of the feminist movement as a whole, which |
| 0:43.6 | is obviously a huge hole. But I do think as with any kind of social justice movement, there |
| 0:49.7 | can be this tendency to be kind of insular to assume that, you know, if somebody doesn't |
| 0:57.6 | kind of agree with you or identify as a feminist by now, then whatever they're like being |
| 1:03.3 | up to, so are obstinate, or they just don't get it, or whatever it is. And I think |
| 1:07.4 | especially going from a very socially justice, critical theory, academic policy, activism |
| 1:14.9 | world to the life coaching world, I really noticed a big difference, obviously, how people |
| 1:21.3 | think about social justice movements in general, how people think about feminism in particular, |
| 1:27.2 | how much or how little people identify with social movements as part of their kind of |
| 1:32.8 | world view. And so I was so excited to have this conversation with some of my students |
| 1:38.2 | who came into the advanced feminist certification that I teach not necessarily identifying |
| 1:45.2 | as feminists. They were attracted to the certification because they were coaches, they knew |
| 1:49.8 | my work, they knew my coaching, something in it had spoken to them, but they didn't identify |
| 1:55.0 | as feminist necessarily for a variety of different reasons. And so today we're going to talk |
| 1:59.7 | about that. And I think this episode is going to be helpful, you know, if you aren't sure |
| 2:05.0 | about whether you want to be a feminist or identify with that to understand why some |
| 2:10.4 | my students have now kind of transitioned in the way that they think about their relationship |
| 2:15.9 | to the movement. And if you already strongly identifies a feminist to hear and understand |
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