The Pink Elephant
We need to talk about the elephant in the room. A podcast about what's happening in Scotland that no one's talking about. Children, childhood, culture, healthy communities. Kate Deeming developed dance projects for kids globally in educational and community settings for 30 years before being cancelled by the dance sector for questioning the narrow social justice mantras that were being embedded across culture. A long time advocate for children and childhood join Kate as she tries to make sense of the madness and give voice to the voiceless.
The Pink Elephant
17. No Boundaries: Conversation with Mary Howden
Was delighted to have a conversation with Mary Howden, Director of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) and retired social worker to speak about the damaging erosion of boundaries we are seeing in education, social care, culture & healthcare settings. Mary has decades of experience working with vulnerable individuals.
One of the main themes that comes up in our conversation is the changing environments of professional settings wherein ideology is prioritised over the practice of care. We also spoke about the sexualisation of culture which is now mirrored in schools in our RSHP (Relationships Sexual Health and Parenthood Education). Mary relayed how this model of education is making children more vulnerable. She knows of what she speaks, having worked with adults who had suffered horrific sexual abuse, rape, and trauma as children and developed therapeutic programs to help address this.
We spoke on drag & the desensitisation our children groomed to go against their instincts. And of course how this systemic lie - that sex is not real - being propagated. Other topical issues related to this included the horror that is LGBT Youth Scotland, the Care Inspectorate implementing self-id in children’s homes, Disclosure Scotland’s complicity in covering up potential criminal activity through self id.
We ended speaking of the brave individuals that have been doing exceptional work to meet these horrors and the growing groundswell of groups fighting these trends, for our children.
I hope you enjoy the conversation! Thanks so much to Mary for taking the time out to speak to me.
Mary Howden on X: https://x.com/MaryHowden
Women’s Rights Network (WRN) on X: https://x.com/WomensRightsNet
WRN “Why are Protections for Children Being Removed”
WRN: “On Drag and the Loss of Safeguarding”
WRN: “Safeguarding, Intimate Personal Care and Why it Matters”
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