Writing Feminist Life Together
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Writing Feminist Life Together
Writing Life Together began by another name in 2018-2019 with just 30 episodes (it was then Writing Feminist Life Together). I am still a feminist, but the new title for season 2 (now 7 years later) also reflects letting my neurodivergent brain take more pathways. This podcast is about how we write...
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A Psychosocial Theory of Recognition
This episode offers my PhD research at the intersections of neuroscience, therapy, and feminist writing practices to talk about what the processes of...
On Recognition & Growth
Neuroscience tells us recognition is important for how our brains grow. What parts of yourself do you need to name and recognize? What parts of yourse...
Holding the Knowledge Within Grief Labor
How can feminist writing practices help us get closer to the knowledge inside ourself that is both powerful and entwined within deep grief labor? And...
Deprivation, Resilience, Community: Reframing Self Care
Self-care is useful as a coping mechanism, but it's also an attempt at an individual solution to a problem that has deep, systemic roots. i talk about...
Fearing Change, Money, and Feminism
One of the reasons people fear change in the feminist journey is because challenging patriarchy usually is not profitable! I talk in this episode abou...
What Change Do We Fear in the Feminist Healing Journey?
Often, we unconsciously block our next steps of healing because we fear the ripple effects of our changing. But the feminist journey is about change—s...
Trauma Studies, Healing, Holding Space
This podcast engages across trauma studies to consider Gloria Anzaldua's writing on healing: "You don't heal the wound. The wound heals you." I also d...
Power, Projection, Patriarchy
This episode furthers the discussion in my July 16 blog post (see kimberlybgeorge.com) that identifies a specific and very common interpersonal power...
Feminism as Memory Work
What comes into view when we think about feminism as fundamentally a practice of memory work, and one that facilitates healing through re-membering an...
Grief, Creativity, Spirit/Spirituality
How we hold our grief and allow our grief to connect us to greater transformation is a very difficult part of the feminist journey. I discuss why I be...
Men Learning Feminism (a Series): Part III
Educator A.J. Hostak and I discuss his feminist journey as it relates to masculinity, vulnerability, and building coalitions. We talk about how the 10...
Men Learning Feminism (a Series): Part II
I interviewed educator and teaching artist Joshua Lewis about his journey of engaging feminist learning as a white cis man. We talk about tears, hiera...
Men Learning Feminism (a Series): Part I
I dialogue with one of my clients about his journey as a white man learning to engage in feminist reflection and labor. We talk about vulnerability, w...
Christian Theocracy, Patriarchy, & Honoring Our Grief
I had an important conversation with Stephanie Drury, trauma specialist and the brilliant host of the forum Stuff Christian Culture Likes. Listen to u...
Trauma Studies: Part II
Part of traumatic experience, as connected to structural violence, is the ways in which our knowledge of the world is gaslight, denied, and minimized....
Trauma Studies: Part I
In the beginning of this series on trauma, we will ask questions like: What is the relationship between patriarchy and refusing our own felt experienc...
Part 2: Defense Mechanisms, Difficult Knowledge, & Heterosexual Relationships
What happens when defense mechanisms are protecting power and privilege? What are ways through this impasse in our relationships? And why is connectin...
Part I: Defense Mechanism, Difficult Knowledge, & Heterosexual Relationships
Part 1 in a series explaining how enacting defense mechanisms are part of learning what feminist psychoanalyst Deborah Britzman calls "difficult knowl...
Resisting Scripts & a Theory of the Unconscious
What moment in your life, perhaps your childhood, best reminds you of your innate capacity to resist social scripts of conformity that never made sens...
What is your image of spiritual awakening?
How would you describe how spiritual awakening connects to 1) our own capacity to do our true work in the world and 2) our own capacity to help others...
Wellness Writing for Graduate Students
This is the first pod done just to assist graduate and university students on the pressures of writing within institutionalized education. It is based...
Interconnection, Change, & Learning
Feminist bell hooks believes that spirituality is the practice of our interconnection to all life. (See her marvelous book, All About Love). I meditat...
On Teaching Men Feminism
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Tamara O'Neal. I discuss some of my approaches to teaching men feminism, including the emotional and ps...
Identity, Impasse, Interconnection
Continuing with questions raised for me by controversies in the national Women's March, I turn to The Coming of Lilith by feminist theologian Judith P...
Intersections of Identity: Finding More Language
This episode weaves discussion of the Combahee River Collective's understanding of "interlocked systems," Kimberle Crenshaw's work on intersectionalit...
The Magical Looking Glass
This episode reflects on a key idea from Virginia Woolf's 1929 feminist text, A Room of Own's Own. I define the words intra-subjective and inter-subje...
Morning Water Practice: Connecting Sensations and Intentions
This episode is less intellectually/textually rigorous and more so an invitation to hear the quiet knowledge and power within your own inner life. How...
Reclaiming Our Knowledge from Hierarchies
I talk about why I hope your feminist education isn't just about listening to my expertise, but tuning into yourself more. I discuss some of the reaso...
More on the Mind-Body Split: Also, Making Your Writing Journal a Sensory Delight!
In this episode, I discuss:
* Making writing journals with your kids and teaching them about trusting their inner life!
* Inviting men t...
Introduction: Writing Feminist Life Together
In this opening podcast, I talk about what is this thing called feminist theory, and well as what is this thing I call contemplative feminism. I am a...