”Great in the Sack”: When Misogyny Leads to Mayhem

Helloooo! I decided to do a small sidequest about the antivax "movement". I mean...how did a fabricated 12-person case study published in the medical journal The Lancet kick off decades of modern vaccine panic?! In this episode, we take a deep dive into the history of inoculation, from early variolation and state-enforced mandates to the erosion of institutional trust in late modernit...

Was the 20-year U.S. occupation a humanitarian rescue mission for women, or was it just a lie to push an agenda of military interventionIn? Hint: Embedded Feminism.  In part 3, we look at the 2001 US invasion up through the 2021 fall of Kabul...contrasting the lives of rural women surviving drone strikes in Helmand and Wardak with urban women fighting for education and aid in Kabul. We also examine the reality of "ghost soldie...

In this episode, we take a look at the reality of life in Afghanistan under the Taliban's first reign from 1996 to 2001, through a historical and feminist lens. Moving past the savioristic and imperial themes, we look at human cost through the archives of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) and investigative reporting like Beneath the Veil, and Unholy War. The rise of the Taliban is discussed, along wit...

We’ve all seen those viral internet photos from the 1960s and ’70s, amiright? Afghan women in mini-skirts…walking freely in the streets. But what do those photos actually say…who actually got to experience that level of freedom?

​In Part 1 of our deep dive into Afghanistan, we are going back into history. We track who holds power at what time periods, and which way the pendulum swings according to those tw...

In this episode, we investigate the wild intersection of systemic  violence against women & girls, and modern technology.

We begin with the landmark Gisele Pelicot case in France, breaking down the court proceedings involving the 50 co-defendants and analyzing the digital hunting ground & website used to facilitate mass abuse.

From there, we make the connections of just how these patterns repeat across emerging tech fr...

The War on Drugs didn’t start in the streets; it started in the shadows of the offices of the CIA. This episode traces the timeline from the late 70s up through the late 90s, connecting the dots between anti-communist funding in Central America, the Middle East, & the sudden influx of crack cocaine into black communities in America. We’re also peepin' the exact moment the Second Boland Amendment went into effec...

So, how did COINTELPRO finally come undone? In this episode, we trace the program’s collapse through the interconnected movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s...from the New Left and anti–Vietnam War protests, all the way to women’s liberation, the Catholic Left, and the American Indian Movement. By examining all that went into the FBI's cointelpro operations, such as surveillance, infiltration, and internal ...

*Content warning** political violence, racism, and brief mention of suicide.

*A FEW VERBAL MISTAKES*: at 2 occasions I referred to the BPP's early name as the "Black Panther Party OF Self Defense" & "Black Panther Party of Defense" which is incorrect. It should have been said, "Black Panther Party for Self Defense"...sorry-sometimes my mouth has its own plan  -_-

Hi there,  listeners! This episode examines the Feder...

H-Hey guys 😅 I know, I know…it has been a REALLY long time, and on top of that I keep finding more things to add to 'The Many Faces of Patriarchy' witch hunt series that I've been working on here most recently (possibly to some of your dismays)! I hope you all don't mind my side quests..after all, colonialism,  authoritarianism, misogyny…they all come from the same place. I just can't stop seeing how MUCH histor...

In Part 2 of our series on witch hunts and patriarchy, we pick up at the decline of the European witch trials..starting with the end of the English (Anglican) prosecutions and moving through the infamous hysteria in Salem. From there, we explore how the so-called Enlightenment ushered in new systems of control under the guise of reason and progress.

If this era was truly "enlightened," why did the transatlantic slave trade not only...

From the witch trials in Valais, Switzerland, to the coerced confessions of Pendle and Salem, this episode uncovers the long arc of misogyny cloaked in religious fervor and legal authority. We trace how accusations of heresy & witchcraft can come as a result of moral corruption and political instability — and have been wielded to control women, the poor, the different, and the defiant throughout history. With voices lost ...

This week on Great in the Sack: When Misogyny Leads to Mayhem, we unpack a revolution born in the wreckage of war...where colonial borders, religious authoritarianism, and patriarchal power COLLIDE! And when these power COMBINE..sorry, almost did the beginning to Captain Planet. Anyway, somehow out of that collision, a feminist experiment began to breathe.

Welcome to Rojava, up in the northeastern part of Syria, where TONS of Kurdi...

In this episode, we track the rise of Phyllis Schlafly-—the woman who weaponized housewife aesthetics and femininity to bulldoze the Equal Rights Amendment and hand America the long-term consequences we're still living through, and we will discuss a bit of that 2nd wave feminism.

We follow the feminist heroes of the early 1970s—Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Brenda Feigen, Shirley Chisholm, and others—as they fou...

Episode 7 – Inceldom Explained: The Case of Tres Genco

**CONTENT WARNING** DISCUSSIONS OF SELF EXIT, AND MASS SHOOTINGS-USE DISCRETION WHERE AND WHEN YOU LISTEN.

A growing subculture of disaffected men has turned their anger into a violent ideology. Incels—short for “involuntary celibates”—believe they are entitled to sex and that women, and society at large, are to blame for their isolation. While ma...

When 19-year-olds Ayşenur Halil and İkbal Uzuner were murdered by Semih Çelik  in October 2023, the public was left grappling with a question: Was this the act of an incel, a narcissist, a psychopath—or something even more insidious?

In this episode, we break down the disturbing timeline of events, from Semih's growing obsession with İkbal to the deadly deception that led both young women to their tragic fate. We examine...

Born into a world where daughters are seen as burdens and honor is worth more than a girl's life, Nina Aouilk grew up trapped—first by her family's expectations of servitude, then by forces far more sinister. From surviving trafficking as a child, to being forced into marriage, and ultimately escaping what her culture referred to as an honor killing, Nina's story is one of resilience in the face of unspeakable cruelty. But sh...