Some White Guy Mansplains Intersectional Feminism with Jake Ryan
SWGMIF is an educational podcast focused on giving you the language to understand the systems of oppression you live under and your role in perpetuating or dismantling them. In it, I highlight the various -isms of our society, like racism, sexism, and ableism, and compassionately urge you to think and act differently to create a more equitable world.
Episodes
9 episodes
8. We’re All In This Together – There is No “Plan(et) B”
This episode addresses the other systems of oppression named in this series, tying them in with capitalism to show how it benefits the most privileged people in our society at the expense of the least privileged among us. It shows once again th...
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Episode 8
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26:51
7. Disability In The Age of COVID
Disability may be the final frontier for our consideration of human rights, following pushes for Black people and other people of color to get civil rights, for women's rights, and for gay/lesbian/bi people and now also trans people. Some peopl...
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Episode 7
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20:36
6. Why It’s Not Really Fair to Call It the “LGBTQ Community”
While often referred to as "the LGBTQ+ community," this label is a bit more hopeful than it is realistic. There's so much diversity between each letter in the whole 2SLGBTQIA+ acronym and even a lot of diversity within each letter. We'll also e...
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Episode 6
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23:23
5. Sexual Violence and Femicide
This episode is a bit of a bummer but it's still very necessary to address sexual violence and femicide. There is no word in the English language for killing a man on account of his gender, but women are killed on account of their gender often ...
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Episode 5
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23:42
4. Masculinity and Men’s Sexuality
Feminism isn't just about women; it's about critiquing the unrealistic expectations our society holds of people based on their gender. Men are very privileged within patriarchy, and white men especially, but they're also generally very unaware ...
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Episode 4
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22:26
3. Black Women, Misogynoir and “Overcoming”
Misogynoir is the intersection of anti-Black racism and misogyny and is important because (white) feminism fails to include the needs of marginalized women, including racialized women, disabled women, and trans women. Because Black women are so...
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Episode 3
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17:43
2. This Is A Man’s World - But It Wouldn’t Be Nothing Without Women
Misogyny is as American as apple pie and is, unfortunately, baked into all levels of our society. This shapes wildly different lived experiences for men and women in our society. In puberty, the world opens for boys and closes for girls. We'll ...
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Episode 2
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23:12
1. White Supremacy and White People’s Role in Dismantling It
You've likely heard about white supremacy but you probably don't really know what it is or how it shows up in your life, especially if you're white. Between COVID, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, 2020 really showed us that our society is not ...
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Episode 1
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