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Part one of a two-part return conversation with Holly Grigg-Spall, author of Sweetening the Pill, with an explanatory preamble from Jasun, followed by discussion of Standing Rock pipeline protest online solidarity, the pitfalls of checking in online, a Facebook ruse?, being existentially in the dark, staying on the threshold of knowledge, expression as response, audience-branding, the baseline of communication, the moment of conception, the fear of female sexuality, the power of birth, body terror and birth trauma, Donald Trump’s pussy-grabbing, when the pussy grabs back, the desire to control women & geopolitics, the experience of the fetus, an imprint of being powerless, the perils of an induced birth, internalized misogyny, different emphases for different sexes, infant identity formation under the mother’s gaze, the psychic umbilical chord, violent mother’s boys, being a mother in society, anxiety transference in the womb, single parenting and expendable fathers, a world without love, a maternal model for social change, men holding a space for women to care for their children, a primitive view, unassisted births, US maternal death rates, women’s experience of their bodies, enjoyment of the body, shutting down the body, male periods, the futility of trying to control sexual desire, period pains as vital signs, the inessentiality of periods vs. menstruation as information, trans-men being triggered by periods, menstruation activism, the wisdom of the body.
Songs: “The Kommema and his Religion” by SunWalker; “Look Out” by My Jacket is Yours; “If You Are Hell Girl” by The UpsideDown; “Rubidoux” by Kristin Hersh.
Tentacles .. enmeshment…
Another really great podcast… Thanks!
Agree, really great podcast, both part 1 and 2.
Although the Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance doesn’t go far enough, and here I agree with the Anarcho-Primitivist, John Zerzan, who made the point that if pipelines are successfully resisted and stopped, the Powers-that-be will simply use rail to transport the Canadian Tar Sands goop to the Gulf of Mexico, and, of course, it’s common knowledge that railroad accidents rarely occur in infrastructure-deprived America! That President-Elect Trump denies climate change, and wants to get people back to work digging coal mines, and fracking for oil and natural gas, is just a grace note on the environmental debacle. Does this situation merely require a change in one’s Facebook allegiance?