

Whose Body Is It
Isabella Malbin
Untangle female empowerment myths with me Isabella -a former "liberal feminist"- so that you can help yourself and the women in your life that are most important to you — whether that’s your daughter, your sisters, or your best friend. You’ll find the answers and guidance you’ve been looking for — from instant access classes to personalized 1:1 support with yours truly. For more info on ways I can help you, head to whosebodyisit.com
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Dec 8, 2022 • 1h 39min
'The HPV Vaccine On Trial: Seeking Justice For A Generation Betrayed' │ Kim Mack Rosenberg
In today's episode, I speak with mother, lawyer and co-author of the book, The HPV Vaccine On Trial: Seeking Justice For A Generation Betrayed, Kim Mack Rosenberg. Did you know that before the covid shots, the HPV Gardasil vaccine generated the most reports on the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)? Kim talks us through how the HPV Gardasil vaccine got fast tracked by the FDA, the supposed cervical cancer 'epidemic', Merck's financial crisis proceeding the release of the Gardasil shots, the stories of children injured in the clinical trials and the ongoing lawsuits that surround this vaccine today.We discuss parental consent, children's inability to consent to medical procedures, the need for independent research beyond doctors and TV programming, and what parents can do to learn more about the safety and effectiveness of the HPV vaccine.The HPV Vaccine On Trial: Seeking Justice For A Generation BetrayedChildren's Health DefenseWhat the Gardasil Testing May Have MissedSupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Nov 24, 2022 • 1h 3min
The Challenges of Organizing Women-Only Events │ Samantha Berg
Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans CultSamantha Berg has been in the feminist movement for 20 years, as a writer, activist and organizer. In her efforts to end the sexual exploitation of women, Sam saw that men who identified as women and as “sex workers” were leading various movements to legalize commercial sex. While organizing events focused on the Nordic Model and other pro-woman policies, Sam's activism was repeatedly threatened by TRAs hell-bent on stopping her from speaking and organizing without men. They used tactics like spamming women with pornography, sitting outside event hotels and making death threats.In this episode, you’ll hear about some of the earliest battles between women’s liberation groups and trans activists, contextualizing the current fight for women’s liberation and free speech. If you’ve been bewildered and outraged as to why men are so determined to keep women from educating ourselves and each other around the world, this episode is for you.John Stompers What Is A Woman? The Dispute Between Radical Feminism And TransgenderismSupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Nov 17, 2022 • 1h 22min
What the hell happened in NYC? Full debrief of Speaker's Corner Event │ Amy Sousa & K. Yang
Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans Cult In this episode I speak with Amy Sousa and K. Yang about the recent Speaker's Corner in NYC, the violence that ensued against women, the nearly 400 self-proclaimed "trans rights activists" and "anti-fascists" who attempted to break the NYPD barricade, and who exactly the topless men and women are seen in the now viral film footage.TimCast Video FootageFollow Amy SousaFollow K. Yang (TheDeprogrammerXX)Support the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Nov 10, 2022 • 50min
How to Protect a Gender Non-Conforming Daughter │ Charlotte Reedy
Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans CultIn today's episode Charlotte Reedy discusses her journey mothering her gender non-conforming daughter. A formerly self-identified "progressive", Charlotte told her then four-year-old daughter that if she wanted to, she could be a boy when she grew up. We get into what woke Charlotte up to the dangers of trans ideology, how she anchors all three of her daughters into their female bodies regardless of how they present to the world, and the measures she's taken to protect her children against a life-time of disembodiment and self-hate.Follow Charlotte on InstagramCharlotte's website Inoculating Our Children Against Transgender IdeologySupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Nov 3, 2022 • 18min
Kellie-Jay Keen came to Austin! Recap of the Speakers Corner & VIP Terf Cocktail Hour
Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans CultThe one and only Kellie-Jay Keen came through Austin this past weekend as a part of her US tour. The Austin Speaker's Corner was unlike others in that we had a team of private security. The usual cowards showed up- middle aged men shouting thing like, "GO HOME TERFS" and "TRANS LIBERATION" aka 'shut up women' and 'mens rights over women's safety'. The weekend was filled with lots of terfy connections and a terf miracle which I get into in the recap. Special thanks to Kellie-Jay Keen, Meghan Murphy, Mary Lou Singleton and Michelle Evans for making the Austin event powerfully connective. Support the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Oct 27, 2022 • 1h 8min
From Chronic Illness and Trans Ideology to Embodiment │ Rae's Story
Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans CultGrowing up in San Francisco, today's guest Rae, was not a stranger to Pride parade or transgenderism, although she wasn’t directly involved in either. Trans ideology appeared more overtly for her in 2019, when she was in a relationship with someone who was online all the time. It wasn't long until she was deep in various forums, exploring new labels for her sexual and gender identities.Ensconced in these echo chambers, she began to identify as trans. After coming out to her therapist and primary care provider, she was passed off to specialists in “trans health care,” who encouraged her to go on testosterone and get a double mastectomy. She soon recognized that the short lived high of being on T could not outweigh the side long-term negative side effects, which for Rae included developing a blood clot. When her painful bruising appeared, it was not her doctor, but her friend, who reminded her to tune into her body's needs.In this episode, we explore what motivated Rae to dis-identify with her femaleness, what kept her going back to her doctors, and how she started listening to her body again. Towards the end of the episode we have a lively conversation about if and how to stay in connection with trans-identified friends, and how to establish boundaries.➢➢➢Whosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Oct 20, 2022 • 1h 22min
'Being and Being Bought': Prostitution and Surrogacy through a Socialist Feminist Lens │ Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans CultKnow in 4 hrs: Decide whether or not to freeze your eggs, do IVF or surrogacyKajsa Ekis Ekman writes on feminism, economics, and political theory from a dialectical materialist framework. When Kajsa first felt called to write about prostitution, she quickly realized that the same arguments used to defend commercial sex were being used to defend surrogacy. Kajsa notes that prostitution is where you sell sex without reproduction, and surrogacy is where you sell reproduction without sex, and in both cases, the woman being sold does not get to enjoy either sex or reproduction.Sex-work apologists will claim that radical feminists don’t ‘talk to sex workers,’ but Ekman certainly did for her book Being and Being Bought published in 2013. What she found was that it’s not a ‘job like any other,’ that ninety-eight percent of people selling sex are women, and that they have a mortality rate 40 times higher than women not in prostitution. She found that sex-work advocacy groups and unions were fake organizations established to protect commerce, not women. So, with such grim statistics, why aren’t more politicians and advocates invested in the Nordic Model, which criminalizes sex buyers.In today’s podcast, we explore the patriarchal desires driving prostitution, surrogacy, and transgender ideology. We also discuss unfriendings, getting cancelled, and how we can resist the global-scale colonization of women.Read Kajsa's book, Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split SelfFollow Kajsa on InstagramInoculating Our Children Against Transgender IdeologySupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Oct 6, 2022 • 1h 4min
Why Pelvic Health is a Feminist Issue │ Adelaide Meadow
Today I speak with my friend Adelaide Meadow. Adelaide is a traditional midwife, functional medicine practitioner & women's movement specialist. Adelaide's work challenges everything you’ve been taught about the female pelvis. Adelaide believes that pelvic health is the apex of women’s wellbeing and discusses why women need to prioritize it, even if our doctors, yoga teachers and other wellness experts won’t.According to Adelaide this is not just a matter of health - this is a feminist issue. As young girls doing ballet and gymnastics, we're instructed to tuck our tailbones and suck in our ribcage, advice that contradicts our natural physiological alignment. This continues into adulthood where we’re often told to exercise and move like men. Whether we're squeezing into skinny jeans and high wasted leggings or constantly sucking in our bellies the message is clear: be smaller and take up less space. We discuss in depth how our female socialization undermines our vitality and why taking back our pelvic health can mean taking back our power.Adelaide's course: 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙝 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙙𝙮Follow Adelaide on InstagramSupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Sep 29, 2022 • 50min
Sex Dolls, Robots & Woman Hating │ Caitlin Roper
Keep Your Kids Out of The Trans CultYou may be aware of the prevalence of pornography, the way it’s crept into popular media and normalized the objectification of women and girls, but today’s guest, writer and activist Caitlin Roper is bringing news from the outer limits of male sexual entitlement. In this episode we explore an emerging threat in the exploitation of women and girls, sex robots and sex abuse dolls. Caitlin notes that life-like sex abuse dolls, including ones modeled after infants, toddlers, and children, have been available for sale on popular platforms like Etsy, Alibaba and Amazon. Apologists will say ‘better these men should do this to a doll than to a real woman or girl,’ but for Roper, this logic does not hold up to scrutiny. In her new book Sex Dolls, Robots & Woman Hating, Caitlin says that sex dolls and robots have actually created even more opportunity for exploitation, including the production of sex abuse dolls made to look like specific children and instagram influencers.As the Campaigns Manager of Collective Shout, an organization that combats exploitation of women and girls in media and popular culture, Caitlin discusses her work with teen girls and the skills needed to resist porn culture in everyday life.Read Sex Dolls, Robots & Woman HatingFollow Caitlin on InstagramLearn more about Collective ShoutSupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Sep 22, 2022 • 1h 5min
Defamation, DARVO, and What Happens When Men Are Welcomed into Women’s Spaces │ Kate Rose
*Any views, thoughts, and opinions expressed by the guest are solely that of the guest and do not reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of Isabella Malbin or Whose Body Is It, LLC. *Today I speak with my friend Kate Rose, who has been involved in a defamation lawsuit for the past 4 years. Weeks away from trial, Kate is ready to break her silence about the Plaintiff in the case, Danny Gallagher.Kate’s story begins in 2017, when she was a self-described “liberal-baby doula” and joined numerous online forums to grow her birth work business. Shortly thereafter, Danny Gallagher joined multiple birth-focused groups, too. Armed with a tragic story, he gained sympathy in these otherwise women-only spaces. Soon though, he was dominating the groups with posts and advice, advertising opportunities to make as much as $5k per month with hardly any effort. Kate reached out, but soon found out the “big opportunity” was porn. Before long, it became clear Danny’s recruitment efforts were not limited to Kate, and he was booted from multiple doula and mother’s facebook groups. When women tried to share information about Gallagher’s actions, he retaliated. Gallagher has since sued over 20 women, mostly low-income birth workers and mothers, claiming $5 million in damages apiece for defamation. Kate explains why defamation cases are the perfect way to maintain contact with victims of abuse and prevent them from speaking out. We get into DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) tactics and how individuals can exploit the legal system to tie women up in prolonged court cases.Help Kate get to Hawaii for the trialFollow Kate on InstagramSupport the PodcastWhosebodyisit.comTime by ASHUTOSH Music promoted by Free Stock Music Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License


