Patriarchy is not the shark.
Patriarchy is the water.
I want to start this article like an essay: growing up, I saw women receive flowers on International Women’s Day.
How much flowers can do – in a country where victim blaming is prevalent, domestic violence is rampant, the Istanbul Convention is still not ratified, and sexist comments are “jokes to be understood” – I still don’t know.
Well, actually, I do – and this is what my new podcast episode is on.
Although there’s no single podcast episode that can summarise the multiple and intersectional struggles we still have to take on, I give a quick list of “issue areas” – simply known as reality to so many – that we have to talk about on International Women’s Day, or any other day.
I talk about different types of violence and aggression, health and medical studies, legal systems, and more. Then, I invite all of us to stay on this path of learning and unlearning and to see our role in changing the current paradigm into one that is simply kinder to all of us.
It’s a dense episode. And yet, it doesn’t even pretend to be an exhaustive list of “what’s wrong with the world.”
Thank you for your time listening to it and for doing the inner work that we all need to do.
Find my article on violence against women here.
You can find my podcast episode on the importance of political representation and how women are often seen in politics here.
Sources cited and resources to explore:
- Human Trafficking in Colombia
- Violence Against Women, WHO
- Attitudes towards Violence against Women in The EU
- We Don’t Have Enough Women in Clinical Trials — Why That’s a Problem
- Unilateral Sanctions Particularly Harmful to Women, Children, Other Vulnerable Groups, UN
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (book)
- Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (book)
- What Works: Gender Equality by Design (book)
Don’t miss my posts – receive them directly to your inbox:
Latest from the Blog
An Interview on Iran and Israel You Have to See
This is an absolute must-watch: Jeremy Scahill, one of the few journalists who interviews and is trusted by various actors, including the Iranian government, talks to Samir Mohyeddin about the U.S.-Iranian negotiations and Israel’s “fragile ceasefires” in Gaza and Lebanon. It’s a conversation good for our brains and conscience.
When Words Become Both The Representation And The Represented
The simplest propaganda technique – blatant lies – might be all that Israel and its supporters have left in their toolbox. Yet words with no meaning is what our leaders, too, have been resorting to for years now, following Israel itself.
Israel: The Only Country Whose Actions Never Represent Itself
If it is not its ministers, navy, police, prison guards, people marching on the streets, nor settlers protected by the army, who, then, actually represents Israel?
The Exploding Head Media 