Episodes
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204. Nicko Nogués: Algoritmos y Arquitectura de la VGFT
Are digital masculinities being radicalized or commodified by social media platforms? How much of Technology-Facilitated Gender Based Violence is a result of human or machine amplified decisions? To what extent do algorithms impact our identities and the cultural or advocacy groups we choose to...
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203. Ruchira Gupta on Cultivating Hope & Protecting Freedom for Humanity
Why are hope, kindness, and freedom essential to safeguarding humanity’s future? And how can arts and storytelling serve as powerful tools for social justice and interfaith understanding? In this conversation with journalist, activist and bestselling author Ruchira Gupta, we explore the...
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202. Kurt Warner on How Idol Worship Undermines Democracy
Are citizens evolving into fans or merely behaving like it? Does the worship of political figures, celebrities, pop culture or sports idols reflecting a deeper cultural shift in how people engage with democracy and its values? How does the creation and following of idols, and the emotional...
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201. Dr. Bruna Soares de Aguiar: El Branding de las PEF en Latinoamérica y Brasil
Are feminist foreign policy models from the Global South being constrained by unequal power dynamics? To what extent must they conform their design and implementation to norms or expectations set by Global North states in order to be recognized as legitimate? Why some ffps in Latin America are...
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200. Ivana Feldfeber: IA y Justicia Abierta en Argentina
What challenges and opportunities does AI presents for States and Peoples? How can the data from our online and offline lives be coded and used to support or threaten our livelihoods? What are feminist perspectives to the responsible uses of AI? What social phenomenons caused the heavy reliance…
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199. Wala Mohammed and Sadia Kidwai on The Impact of War and Displacement on Young Sudanese Women
How the significant loss of caregivers, education and financial opportunities alongside the trauma related to war, displacement and pre-existing health conditions has affected many young Sudanese women? In this interview with Wala Mohammed, co-director of Hopes & Actions Foundation and Sadia...
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198. The Human-Matrix Web
How Are Media, AI and Technologies Altering Human Relations and World Affairs Today? How has our increasing exposure, consumption and engagement with international news throughout the decades changed our perception of ourselves, our relations with others and the current and future state of the...
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197. The Apprentice: What Male Leaders Project and Suppress for Power
How do masculine understandings of power shape the public personas of male leaders? How do they cultivate masculine energy traits, repressing feminine energy expressions internally but seeking them externally in the forms of bodies, territories, nations or States? How nuanced are the concepts of...
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196. Rebecca Irby on Rethinking Nuclear Deterrence & Youth Action for Peace
Is nuclear deterrence an outdated policy? And if so, what’s holding us back from transitioning to a nuclear ban once and for all? What are the racial and gendered dimensions of nuclear weapons production and nuclear waste storage? How do these policies impact marginalized communities, both...
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195. Dr. Nourhan Bassam on Feminist Urbanism: Shaping the Cities of the Future
How are modern cities creating hostile and exclusionary urban spaces? Who has the right to access and fully participate in cities? In this interview with Dr. Nourhan Bassam, feminist urbanist, architect, author and founder of The Gendered City, we explored how urban spaces reflect societal and...
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194. Melanie Nezer on The Impact of U.S. Immigration Orders on Displaced Women and Girls
How outdated are U.S. immigration laws? What are the long-term, intended and unintended consequences of Trump Administration new executive orders such as the repeal of the Ending Sensitive Zones Policy, the suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, the USAID Funding Freeze, and the...
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193. Devon Cone on USAID Funding Freeze: A Worldwide Setback for Refugee Women
What are the long-term, intended and unintended consequences of the USAID funding freeze? How the suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, the reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule, and other executive orders from the new Trump Administration related to the US-Mexico border and the End…
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192. Nicole Steward on Radical Self-Care for Changemakers
What is the health impact of the work we do in International Relations and Humanitarian Settings? In this interview with Nicole Steward, MSW and author of the new book Radical Self-Care, we delved into how shock doctrines, global conflicts, media narratives, and disaster relief efforts impact not...
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191. Dayanna Palmar Uriana on Wayuu Women's Rights in Venezuela and Colombia
How do colonial, state, gender-based, and spiritual forms of violence impact the rights of Wayuu women in La Guajira? How do the governments of Venezuela and Colombia differ or align in their recognition and protection of the Wayuu indigenous population's rights and cosmovisions? An interview…
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190. Dr. William T. Armaline on The Crisis of Human Rights in the Age of Global Capitalism
How global capitalism intersects with inter-state relations? How are forces of private equity and transnational capital shaping the domestic and foreign policies that governments design to fulfill capital accumulation and geopolitical interests - often at the expense of human and environmental...
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189. María Paulina Rivera Chávez on How Mexico's FFP is Part of a Global Project
Are Feminist Foreign Policy models building a Global Project? Is it based on a universal “feminist idealism” or a “Western” view of “modernization” to end systemic unequal power and oppressions? How is Mexico's FFP playing a part on this Global Hegemonic Project? What racial, care and…
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188. 2024 SDG Gender Index: Review
Will the world be less equal in 2030 than in 2015? How are international financial flows, government debt burdens, austerity measures and colonial legacies affecting the achievement or backsliding of Gender Equality laws, policies, social and cultural norms? Is money the big "silent" player in…
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187. Healing our Inner/Outer Masculine and Feminine Imbalances Part 2
How are the wounded masculine and feminine shaping Domestic and Foreign Affairs? Listen to related episodes: 46. Hannah Ruth Dyson on The Deep Feminine 102. The Matrix Trilogy - What Can We Learn from It? 103. Patriarchy & The Triad of Men’s Violence 150. Healing our Inner/Outer Masculine and...
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186. Abundance in Politics & IR
How do we measure an Individual, State or System has “too much” power? How are Individuals and Structures of Governance envisioning the acquisition, distribution and removal of Power(s)? If power exists in relation, are humans framing abundance of power through self and collective defeating or...
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185. Scarcity in Politics & IR
Do we relate to power from a perspective that “Others” have it? Do we look at power as something that is scarce? When do people stop believing, feeling or acting like they have any power? When do Individuals, States or Systems accept they are…power-less? Are we scared of discovering or growing…
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184. Barbie - Gender Lens Film Review
How the white female gaze gives meaning to relations and systems of power? Why was the Barbie movie so triggering to watch for many audiences worldwide? How it portrayed United States' white feminism advocacy issues, fears, struggles and the quest for liberation from perceived chains of…
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Special Announcement: 2024 Podcast Data Report Available in English and Spanish languages
After producing +180 episodes and interviews for the podcast- on a wide range of topics from Feminist Theory in IR, FFPs, Conflict, Peace, Race, Gender, Climate Change and more-, for our 5th anniversary we launched a podcast data report on the trends and insights we have covered in the 3 levels…
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183. Marielle Camara on the Social and Environmental Impacts of the Tren Maya
The Maya Train project began construction in 2020 in Mexico amidst several controversies over its social, gender and environmental impacts and the lack of information. How has the construction affected the biodiversity of the region and the lives of local and indigenous populations in the Yucatán...
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182. Our Brand is Crisis - Film Review
Are political campaigns becoming a "good business" to enter to? Or... stay in? A review and political commentary of the film Our Brand is Crisis (2015). Join us in this new exploration and register for the upcoming free podcast report launch on July 23rd. Free rsvp in English or Spanish…
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181. A Special Invitation: 5th Anniversary Podcast Report Launch
*In English and Spanish languages To mark the 5th year anniversary of our podcast, we want to invite our community of listeners to the launch of a new free report where we will connect the dots on the 180 exploratory and explanatory episodes and interviews we have recorded so far regarding gender...
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180. Dr. L. Ayu Saraswati on Pain, Power & Transnational Feminism
Is it possible that world leaders today may be exhibiting, numbing or inflicting individual and/or collective pain in domestic or foreign policies? What is the connection between pain, power and transnational feminism? What causes the disconnection of seeing pain only as a personal experience...
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179. Marta Saiz on Human Rights Journalism & Foreign Affairs
Is the media coverage of foreign policy focusing on states’ behavior to, purposely, dehumanize people? How mainstream, traditional and social media coverages of international conflicts are influenced by and/or can influence too: People, States & Systems? How complex is the experience of covering...
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178. The World (Dis)Order
Have individuals and states outgrown the current international systems? Is the international political system not meant for states to grow unlimited within it or...to grow outside of it? What if 20th century norms and rules created by international community institutions (and by certain state and...
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177. The Queenmaker
How free are Women in Politics? When does personal agency or identity can get lost in the launch and execution of political campaigns? What weighs more in the road to election: personal reasons, collective pressures/promises or a combination of both? With the rise of female candidates running for...
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176. Alexandra Molina and Valerick Molinary on the Transformative Power of Belly Dance
What stories do our bodies tell? How can music and dance forms help people communicate with their inner selves and each other? How our body language may be signaling our oppression or liberation of mental, cultural or social conditionings? Why is Belly Dancing seen as a popular and powerful dance...
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175. The Loss of Meaning in the International System
Does the survival of states (and their relations) ultimately come at the expense of the survival of our (& other) people? A practical exercise episode for Feminist Perspectives and IR Analysis for whoever is interested in understanding current world affairs. Listen to related episodes 74. The...
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174. Social Media Warfare Effects On Us
How are we reacting to watching wars unfold on traditional news media and social media? What role does mis/dis/information play in our response or disregard of international conflicts? Listen to related episodes 15. Sandra Aceng on Women's Rights, Online Violence and Race in Uganda 32. Mendy…
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173. Sylvie Tanflotien on STEAM Education for Girls in Ivory Coast
On International Day of the Girl, what are some of the key issues affecting girl’s education in Ivory Coast? Why Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) education is important for the current and next generation of young leaders in your country and region? An interview with Sylvie...
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172. World Politics Today: BRICS Expansion
Part II- Power Revisited IG Limited Series Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir and support our work on Patreon http://patreon.com/womanhoodir BRICS Information Portal Information of BRICS - Russia Infographics | Explaining the BRICS expansion BRICS Expansion: Challenging...
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171. Daniela Suárez Vargas on CRSV and 'Total Peace' Efforts in Colombia
How the political climate of countries can hinder or facilitate conflict resolution or peace efforts? When did the concept of "peace" become a political tool for winning or losing a presidential elections in Colombia? Can the new 'Total Peace' plan pave the way for transitional or…
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170. World Politics Today: UN's New Agenda for Peace
Part I - Power Revisited IG Limited Series Watch the full IG Live Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn @womanhood_ir and support our work on Patreon http://patreon.com/womanhoodir Recommended links to this episode: Download UN New Agenda for Peace Download 1992 Agenda for Peace UN chief says...
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169. Jeff Hardy on The Care for Peace and Our Second Human Evolution
Are we stuck in a Suspended Human Evolution? Is it preventing us to develop a process to "Care for Peace" at a global scale? What can we learn from healthcare professionals to understand this concept from an individual to a systemic level? Why the Mutual Assured Destruction in the early 1960s…
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168. Ereshnee Naidu on Women's Role in the TRRC in The Gambia
How cultures of fear and silence may affect the way post-conflict societies relate to transitional justice and peace processes? What's been the role women have played in the TRRC in The Gambia? How has the implementation of women-only listening circles and safe spaces helped build trust, support...
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167. Christina Dhanuja on Social Justice for Caste-Marginalized Women in India
What is the caste system and why it still continues nowadays in India?Dalit women and girls are placed at the bottom of the caste system, why is it so? What are some cultural or religious norms negatively affecting Dalit and Adivasis women and girls? How do they differ from castes in Northern...
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166. Hypermasculinity & Hyperfemininity on States
We may have been taught the study of International Relations in a logical way as if there were no underlying energies, emotions and desires in the behaviors and relations between states but, that time, has come to an end. What kind of energies lie beneath domestic and foreign policies? Are states...
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165. Rachel Winny on the Rise of Disinformation & Conflict Escalation
How can we build information resilience amidst so many digital battlegrounds, misinformation and gendered disinformation campaigns influencing political, social and armed conflicts around the world? Why have digital battlegrounds and disinformation campaigns particularly targeted female activists...
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164. The Diplomat: When Does Soft Power Cave In?
Is diplomacy a world of political favors? Do diplomats hold conditional "power" in personal friendships and state alliances? Is this power symbolic, cultural or merely decorative or performative for specific circles (party elites, lobbies, etc) or media circus? Can the role of ambassadors and...
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163. Dr. Carolina Robino and Dr. Rebecca Calder on Investing in the Care Economy
The COVID-19 pandemic hit the global economy in unprecedented ways, marking a new wave of interest in the design of healthier and alternative economic systems for the benefit of People and Planet. Unpaid domestic work and the care crisis has been big areas of concern amongst scholars and…
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162. Helena Monzón Pérez on 'Ley Monzón' & Prosecuting Femicides in Mexico
Cecilia Monzón's femicide in 2022 shocked thousands of people in Mexico. The public outcry for justice for her and the many mothers who were and still are victims of gender based violence perpetrated by their current or former partners led to several activist campaigns and the proposal of laws...
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161. Revaluing Our Bodies, Spaces and Behaviors
Has the patriarchal mindset affected the way we portray ourselves, value knowledge and create or sustain work environments in the IR field? Are we aware of the set of formal or informal rules of engagement we must follow personally or collectively to be perceived as "good professionals" in this…
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160. Nicole Dagher on Holistic Approaches to MHHE in West Africa and Pakistan
What are some ways to address Menstrual Health, Hygiene and Education that could enable societies and governments to reduce shame and stigma? How can sensitization training for schools and healthcare professionals, the engagement with local leaders and the rehabilitation and adaptation of WASH...
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159. Dr. Shraddha Kale Kapile on Menstrual Health, Hygiene & Education in Mumbai Slums
What are the menstrual realities of young girls, women and menstruating people living in Mumbai Slums? How are religions, economics, customs and traditions directly or indirectly influencing or perpetuating menstrual shame and stigma in this city? How can science, education, economic empowerment...
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158. Carolina Ramírez on Decolonizing Menstrual Hygiene & Education in Latin America
What is the colonial history of menstrual health, hygiene and education in Latin America? How important is the language used in family settings, schools, business ads, health clinics and government policies to reproduce or reduce the menstrual shame and stigma that is passed on through…
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157. Kat Plouffe on Launching A Sustainable Period Startup
Amidst talks on the Menstrual Equity Fund in Canada, how challenging is to launch a sustainable menstrual hygiene small-business? What are the biggest opportunities and struggles female entrepreneurs face when entering the market, often flooded by synthetic and cheap products from big…
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156. Revaluing Women's IR Analysis in Traditional & Social Media
How are we currently valuing women's presence, voices and expertise in traditional media and social media as fellow colleagues, readers, listeners or audience members? Has the patriarchal mindset and the predomination of male experts in the International Relations field affected the way we look…
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