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FemmSouth
by FemmSouth: Speaking up for Women's Rights in the South
At FemmSouth we have a mission.We believe that through feminist theory, through a comprehensive study of women's history, and through current dialogue women can transform and heal.We seek to demystify the feminist movement, with grass-roots, community building and local empowering efforts.We aim to give voice to Southern women in unifying and connecting all sides of the global women's movement.
Episodes
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EP 5: Taking the Fight to the Ballot Box
In this podcast episode, Leigh, Lindsay, and Mette welcome guests Lauren and Jasmine, members of the Pensacola Abortion Rights Task Force (PART), to discuss Pensacola's history with abortion care and activism, as well as Florida's current Amendment 4 initiative. PART was founded in 2022 in…
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EP 4.2 Let's Talk About Sex: Defending Books & Librarians Against Attacks
In this gripping episode, we delve into the heart of the battle for intellectual freedom with Angie Hayden, the visionary founder of Read Freely Alabama, and Elizabeth Williams, a passionate member of FemmSouth and organizer for Read Freely Alabama's Baldwin County chapter. Join us as Angie sheds...
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Episode 4.1: Let's Talk About Sex Education
In this episode, Lindsay, Mette, and Leigh meet with two guests from the Alabama Campaign for Adolescent Sexual Health (ACASH) to hear how the the overturn of Roe continues to shape Sex Education policy in Alabama. Christina Clark Okarmus, the Executive Director of ACASH, and ShaKaya Darrington,...
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Episode 3.3: Faith Leaders Speak Up For Choice with Rev Ginny Phillips Allen and Renee Adcock
Episode 3.3 “Faith Leaders Speak Up for Choice” with Rev. Ginny Phillips Allen and Rev. Renee Adcock. In this session, you will hear our conversations with two local faith leaders talking about abortion rights in lower Alabama. If you attended a protest following the overturn of Roe v. Wade in...
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Episode 3.2: Faith Leaders Speak Up For Choice with Rev. Latishia James
In this second segment we talk with Rev. Latishia James, an ordained minister in The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries, and the Co-Director of Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity (also known as SACReD) where they advance reproductive justice for marginalized communities...
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Episode 3.1: Faith Leaders Speak Up For Choice With Rev Katey Zeh
Across three segments—all guided by ordained faith leaders—we’ll shine a light on the patriarchal systems and colonialist histories that lead to trauma, abuse, and violations of the autonomy of pregnant people. We explore the supposed schism between spirituality and sexuality. And we discuss the...
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Episode 2: At What Cost? Denying Choice Deepens Disparities
What happens when a pregnant person is denied an abortion? How does it impact their life trajectory, financial security, and the wellbeing of existing and future children? And how does it compare with those who are able to access a wanted abortion? In this episode of the “Reproductive Freedom in...
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Episode 1: The Current Post-Roe Landscape in Alabama
This is the first episode in the "Reproductive Freedom in the Deep South" Series where we talk with representatives from reproductive justice organizations with boots on the ground in Alabama. Our special guests are Tish Gotell Faulks, Legal Director at the ACLU of Alabama; Robin Marty, the...
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Reproductive Freedom in the Deep South: Introduction to the Series
This is our kick-off episode introducing audiences to the six-part series where we will host conversations with a range of people and professionals who are experiencing first-hand the effects and the fallout of the Dobbs decision here in Alabama. In June of 2022, the constitutional right to…
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Episode 21: Financial Feminism Part I
This episode is the first of a two-part series exploring financial feminism and impact investing in women. In this first episode, we consider several definitions for the term financial feminism. We explore the barriers women face with finances and investing in a post-pandemic world and examine...
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2022 Kick Off Podcast Episode
For this kick off episode, I have asked two of my favorite FemmSouth bookclub members and podcast guests, Shannon Fountain and Kadine Christie, to discuss their successes, joys, and transitions over the last few months. Kadine, a published local author, has been birthing a new book and shares the...
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EP 20 Part II: Music & Writing For Healing With Jolene Thibodeaux
Jolene @_thibodeaux_ is a local singer, songwriter, poet, and published author. Her writing and music draw from her experiences growing up in Alabama and time spent with her father in the Pacific Northwest. She is a rich and down-to-earth storyteller with imagery steeped in rural living and a...
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EP 20 Music & Writing for Healing with Haley Harkin
We have a new episode release and a very special musical guest, Haley Harkin! Haley is a singer/songwriter of folk medicine music from Austin, Texas. She joins us to continue our discussion of Women Healers, focusing specifically on writers, poets, and songwriters that use their craft for…
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EP 19 Part IV with Pamela Smith
In the final episode of our Women Healers series, we are circling back to birth work to talk with our special guest, Pamela Smith, one of the founding members of the Farm community in Summertown,Tennessee. Pamela tells the story of joining Steven, Ina May Gaskin and the 200+ caravan in 1970 that...
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EP 19 Part III: Special Guests Firestar & Brightheart
Ep 19 Part III of Women Healers with Firestar & Brightheart “Midwifing the soul into wellness” is Firestar’s poetic description of her practice of shamanic healing. Like our previous class of Women Healers, shamanism is a special calling and an undertaking with a long, rich tradition that spans...
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EP 19 Part II Women Healers With Eri Guajardo Johnson
Our special guest is Eri Guajardo Johnson (she/they), a queer, bi-racial birth worker, community educator, birth consultant for trauma survivors, and founder of Birth Bruja, which is an online educational platform devoted to intersectional, liberational & decolonial approaches to birthwork,...
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EP 19 Part I: Special Guest Nafeesah Roberts As-Salafeeyah
The first episode in our series on Women Healers is a lovely discussion with Nafeesah Roberts As-Salafeeya, a Community Labor and Postpartum Doula. Doulas play a critical role as healers because they provide physical and emotional support before, during, and after birth in ways that modern…
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EP 19: An Introduction to Women Healers Series
In this introduction, I set up our discussion about women healers. What do we mean when we refer to women healers, and how does this language differ from the language of modern medicine? As Elisabeth Brooke says, "Medicine has always been political," and those with the authority to practice...
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Episode 18: A Silver Lining
For this episode, I couldn’t be more excited to speak candidly with Jillian and Shannon about all of our personal struggles dealing with 2020 and to acknowledge the accomplishments we did make in our community. As we say in this episode, women are conditioned to find the silver lining in all...
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Episode 17: Breaking the Silence of Abuse
In Sep, our book club read Rachael Louise Snyder’s No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us for our focus on intimate partner violence, which often remains hidden despite the fact that it affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men according to the National Coalition...
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Episode 16: Education at Home~A New Frontier
In this episode, Leigh interviews Kadine Christie, a mother in her eighth year of homeschooling her three children. Kadine has her BA in sociology from Kean University and her Masters in Counseling from Capella University. She’s also a writer, has published work in several magazines, and is...
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Episode 15: Addressing Racism: Southern Black Feminist Perspectives
In our commitment to amplify black female voices, this episode is an intimate conversation with Valencia, Clarice, and Wenter, three southern, black women in our FemmSouth book club, about their perspectives on racism and the BLM movement. Join us as we hear their thoughts on police brutality,...
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Episode 14: The Work That Reconnects
In this episode Leigh and Amaya interview Anna Swisher, a facilitator for Joanna Macy’s The Work That Reconnects. Anna explains the evolution of Macy’s approach over the last half of the century, the foundational basis of Macy’s work in Deep Ecology and Systems Theory, and walks us through the...
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Episode 13: Octavia Butler, Parable, & Pandemic
In this episode, Shannon and Leigh discuss Octavia Butler’s dystopian, afrofuturistic novel, The Parable of the Sower and the current coronavirus pandemic. Butler has imagined an all-too-real version of the United States if things like climate change and corporate greed are left unchecked. Much...
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Episode 12 Part III True Inclusivity for LGBTQ+ Christians
In this episode, Leigh interviews Reverend Ellen Sims from Open Table United Church of Christ in Mobile and Elizabeth Denham, LGBTQ+ advocate and owner of The Franchise Woman magazine. Both are connected to the advocacy & family support groups, Rainbow Mobile and Prism United. If you've lived in...
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Episode 12: Out of The Margins Part II
In this episode, we go out into the community to see how Christian Feminism is being discussed and practiced in the local area. Leigh interviews Judith Comer, an ordained Episcopal Minister, and Jessica Deese, a mother of four children who is active in her local church community and school. In…
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Episode 12: Christian Feminism: Out of the Margins
In this episode, Leigh and Shannon discuss restoring the equality of the Divine Feminine in Christianity by centering on biblical women and feminine expressions of the Divine in scripture. We look at Christian supremacy and its legacy of oppression. We learn the historical roots of feminism in...
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Bonus Episode!! Music by Brenda Bledsoe
Bonus episode featuring singer, songwriter and musician, Brenda Bledsoe. For over 17 years, Brenda has been writing songs inspired by the people and places that have impacted her life. She's been playing the flute and guitar for even longer. In this episode, Brenda shares her new song, Let Your...
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Episode 11 Part 2: Trans Feminism Conversations
For the second part of our episode on Trans Feminism, Sarah and Leigh interview transgender friends in the community to talk about coming out in the south. We hear transwomen’s perspectives on living with gender dysphoria, what coming out to their families has been like, how the church has...
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Episode 11: Trans Feminism & Beyond the Gender Spectrum
Join us as we explore Sarah McBride's book, "Tomorrow Will Be Different," a touching, personal memoir that covers her transition story, her journey into transgender activism, and the tragic loss of her husband to cancer. Sarah's book is also a primer on the many complex issues facing the...
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Episode 10: Part II ~ Reflecting on Audre Lorde
In part II of Episode 10: Reflecting on Audre Lorde, Leigh is joined by three local women (Valerie Montgomery, Claire Hallblack, and Valencia Wilson) to talk about race and infrastructure in our local community as an extension of our discussion about Audre Lorde's book Sister Outsider. Audre…
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Episode 10: Reflecting on Audre Lorde--Black, Radical, Femininst, Lesbian, Poet
This episode examines Audre Lorde’s collection of essays and lectures in her book, "Sister Outsider." Join Leigh and new cohost, Jillian Rosandich, as we talk about Audre Lorde’s theory of difference, a foundational pillar of Intersectional Feminism that recognizes the particular experiences and...
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Episode 9 Part II: Women's Anger & Emotional Freedom Panel Discussion
Why is anger a particularly challenging emotion to acknowledge and express for women? Many of us grew up in a culture or a home that discouraged any expression of anger or discontent. We learned to suppress our darker emotions, drive them down deep, and sacrifice our needs to be the peacekeepers…
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Episode 9: Women's Emotional Freedom
Anger, one of the darker emotions that women have historically learned to suppress & transfer into other more acceptable emotions like anxiety, sadness, and depression, is actually a valid and valuable tool for creating change in our personal lives and in the world. This is not the first time in...
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SheWolves Bonus Episode: Skeleton Woman
Join Leigh as she interviews Matt Myrick, singer, songwriter, and father of two small children, to get his take on the story of the Skeleton Woman in Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ Women Who Run With the Wolves. Skeleton woman is the archetype of the life/death/life cycle, which, according to Clarissa…
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Episode 8: SheWolves Part III - Bone Collectors
We are continuing our three part series honoring Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Women Who Run With the Wolves. Clarissa connects readers with the archetypal wild woman who sings over collected bones to revive the Shewolf, La Loba. We all possess this wild woman deep inside our psyches, but many of us…
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Episode 8: SheWolves Part II - Soul Skin Embodiment
Are we enjoying the full shapes and functions of our bodies, and do we feel at home in our own skin? Join us as we explore the answers to these questions in the second part of a three-part series honoring Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ book, Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild...
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Episode 8: SheWolves - Part 1: Feminine Intuition & Creativity
This episode is the first of a three-part focus on Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ book, Women Who Run With the Wolves, Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. For those that have not read this book, first let me say that it is one of those life-changing, must reads for a women’s book club. Estes’...
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Episode 7: Why Mothers Matter - Discussing "Mothering Without a Map" w/ Dr. Katie Penry
Motherhood is always a hot topic at our book club discussions, whether we are talking about our own mothers or the challenges of motherhood. In this new episode, Leigh & Amaya tackle motherhood and discuss Kathryn Black’s book, Mothering Without a Map: The Search for The Good Mother Within. This...
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Episode 6 Part II: Modern Day Witchcraft & Earth Magic Wisdom with Riyana Rose
Modern Witchcraft & Earth Magic Wisdom with Riyana Rose Amaya is flying solo for this episode, on assignment in the San Francisco Bay Area a place for all things mystical, magical and witchy. She interviews Riyana Rose a modern day witch, herbalist, coach, and writer who has been practicing...
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Episode 6: The Witchcraze & Women's Inherited Trauma
In light of the feminist uprising that is giving women a resurgence in power and voice, we are still having to hold our ground against dismissal and outright hostility. We still have unanswered questions that history has for too long ignored. Why do we feel disconnected from our bodies and…
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Episode 5: The Making of Our Podcast & Looking Ahead
In this episode, we look back at 2018 and what it was like deciding to do a podcast in the south, the emotional roller coaster that comes with putting yourself out there, and launching successfully to our community and the world. What a tremendous endeavor we have taken on! We reflect on the...
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Episode 4: Maternal Instincts & Female Choice
Leigh and Amaya dive into Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's book, "Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species." They discuss the female's active role in reproduction across species, they look at allomothers and communal support for motherhood, and they consider reproductive rights,...
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Episode 4 Part II: #My Choice
Building on Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's concepts of female choice and agency in evolution, Amaya and Leigh discuss reproductive rights with former abortion worker, Anne (pseudonym). They all talk openly about their own abortions in order to break the taboo and shame surrounding the topic, and offer…
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Episode 3 Part II: Handmaids' Resistance in the South
Amaya and Leigh interview local women that participated in Baldwin County's very own Handmaid's resistance, protesting Roy Moore's campaign for the 2017 Alabama Senate election. Mette McCall, Lyza Davidson, and Hanh Hua talk about their passion for protesting his candidacy and for supporting the...
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Episode 3: The Handmaid's Tale And The #MeToo Movement
The Handmaid's Tale is the next book on our feminist book club's list, and we discuss its current significance and the #MeToo Movement. We look at how themes in the book are connected to the movement and other current political issues. We look deep into what the movement is really about, and we...
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Episode 2 Part II: Female Sexuality & Teachings From a Tantrica
Amaya and Leigh have the great pleasure of interviewing River Blue Lotus, a local Tantrica and Tantric couples coach. River has a degree in contemplative psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, was raised in a Goddess centered community, and has been helping couples go deeper...
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Episode 2: Female Sexuality & the Goddess Array
Join us as Amaya and Leigh discuss Naomi Wolf's book, Vagina. We talk about female sexuality and the connection between the vagina and inspiration, healing, and transcendence. We look at the historically repressed and traumatized vagina, the porn industry, and then we shift to the last half of...
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Episode 1 Part II: Feminism Is For Everybody
In this episode, Leigh and Amaya go out into the community to ask people their views on feminism. Listen as they interview men and women of all ages to see what they think feminism means, to discuss their associations with the word feminism, especially in the south, and to find out if they do...
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Episode 1: Feminism in the South
Amaya and Leigh launch their podcast with this first episode about what it's like being a feminist living in the deep south and how southern women need to become more active in the current conversations. Amaya and Leigh discuss the challenges of being raised in the south and speaking out for...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
At FemmSouth we have a mission.We believe that through feminist theory, through a comprehensive study of women's history, and through current dialogue women can transform and heal.We seek to demystify the feminist movement, with grass-roots, community building and local empowering efforts.We aim to give voice to Southern women in unifying and connecting all sides of the global women's movement.
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FemmSouth: Speaking up for Women's Rights in the South
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