Linda MacDonald & Jeanne Sarson on feminism as a means of opposing misogyny and mass violence.

Trigger warning: This episode contains detailed descriptions of assault and abuse that some listeners may find disturbing. Linda MacDonald and Jeanne Sarson are feminist activists and human rights educators who have been pushing for decades to insist that the public confront the related realities of femicide and non-state torture. Their work led them to co-found the organization Persons Against Non-State Torture (www.nonstatetorture.org), a radical advocacy group that demands we recognize the everyday forms of abuse, torture, victimization, and domination in the domestic sphere that go criminally unnoticed. In response to the devastating and unprecedented act of mass murder that occurred here in Nova Scotia on April 18th and 19th, they are devoting their time and energy to a fiercely important media campaign to spread the message that we must, now, adopt what they term a “feminist lens” for understanding the misogynistic roots of the rampage, and a feminist framework for seeing this series of attacks as part of a continuum of male aggression connected to related acts of mass violence that we have witnessed in recent memory.