Search a title or topic

Over 20 million podcasts, powered by 

Player FM logo

Bodily Autonomy Podcasts

show episodes
 
Behind every abortion story is a fight for dignity, freedom, and survival. Hosted by longtime activist and unapologetic truth-teller Colleen Luckett, The Abortionfluencer Podcast exposes the machinery of institutionalized misogyny still operating in our laws, our politics, and our culture — and elevates the voices of those fighting back. Each episode is a space for medical facts, feminist fire, class solidarity resistance, and the radical notion that women are human beings, not bargaining ch ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Choice Chat Podcast

Morgentaler Committee at Humanist Canada

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
Choice Chat is a Humanist Canada podcast that confronts the truth about reproductive health in Canada—loudly and unapologetically. Created by the Morgentaler Committee, this series challenges harmful narratives, replaces myths with truth, and reframes what we’ve been told about abortion, contraception, and reproductive care. No sugarcoating. No shame. Just real talk. We’re lifting the veil of silence—amplifying lived experiences, exposing the spin that fuels judgment and control, and demandi ...
  continue reading
 
Hosted by Asha Dahya rePROfilm connects storytellers and advocates who celebrate bodily autonomy. Our community includes creatives & artists who are amplifying bodily autonomy through their work, audiences who applaud these stories and collaborative organizational partners with shared goals.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Satanists Nextdoor's Podcast

Satanists Nextdoor

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
Welcome to The Satanists Nextdoor, the most devilishly delightful podcast around! Join our charming Satanic couple as they challenge stereotypes and occasionally summon extraordinary guests who bring their unique perspectives to the mix. Get ready for a wickedly fun and enlightening ride through the realms of life, parenting, relationships, politics, and everything that makes existence intriguing.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Stoking the Fire

nicole eliza araujo

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
Stoking the Fire is a podcast that explores practices of wellness and spirituality from a nuanced perspective. With different guests on the show each week sharing their own experiences, we discuss practices that stoke the fire within, those that extinguish it, and the mysterious phenomena along the way. Themes include: cultural and social structures, trauma, Eastern medicine, addiction, cults, bodily autonomy, sexuality, abuses of power, feminist spirituality, the wounded masculine, the pris ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

251
The Vagina Museum Podcast

Vagina Museum

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
Yes, there's actually a Vagina Museum. Located in East London, the Vagina Museum is the world’s first brick-and-mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas, and gynecological anatomy. We have a vision of a world where no one is ashamed of their bodies, everyone has bodily autonomy, and all of humanity works together to build a society that is free and equal. This is our podcast. Spoiler alert, it's about vaginas. Follow us on social media and visit the museum website, vaginamuseum.co.uk to le ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
American Dreams Podcast

Erika Washington

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
American Dreams is a podcast that will explore exactly what Reproductive Justice means. Reproductive Justice was an idea birthed in 1994, by 12 Black women who felt unseen by the white establishment. ​ The four principles of Reproductive Justice are: 1. The right to have a child 2. The right to not have a child (which includes sterilization, which many doctors won’t do) 3. The right to have a child in a healthy environment and then raise them safely 4. The right to bodily autonomy and sexual ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
The Nasty Women Report

The Nasty Women Report

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Daily+
 
The Nasty Women Report is a podcast devoted to chronicling the world as we now know it, with Trump (ugh) as POTUS (we still don't believe it). Each week, we'll discuss issues pertinent to women, LGBT, and people of color under a Trump regime. Topics include: - Feminist issues and the challenges to our right to bodily autonomy - The political shenanigans of Trump and his Cabinet cohorts - Abuses and legal challenges to LGBT Americans and Americans of color - Calls to action in the fight to ta ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
How to Fix the Internet

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
The internet is broken—but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re concerned about how surveillance, online advertising, and automated content moderation are hurting us online and offline, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. EFF has been defending your rights online for over thirty years and is behind many of the biggest digital rights protections since the invention of the internet. Through curious conversations with some of the leading ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters Podcast

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM)

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
The SRHM Podcast explores new research and emerging trends in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters or SRHM promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights globally. At the heart of SRHM is a multidisciplinary, open-access, peer-reviewed journal. SRHM also creates and participates in spaces that motivate improvements in research, policy, services and practice. It contributes to capacity building in knowledge generation. Learn more a ...
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Difficult Women

Katy Frame & Marie Cecile Anderson

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
A comedy edutainment podcast that provides an alternate perspective to the traditional patriarchal viewpoint. Co-hosted by "difficult women" Marie Cecile Anderson and Katy Frame.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
No Body Criminalized

If/When/How, Repro Legal Defense Fund

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
In this interview podcast, Rafa Kidvai, director of If/When/How’s Repro Legal Defense Fund, talks to people whose daily work intersects with reproductive justice, state surveillance, and the criminal legal system’s targeting of marginalized people.
  continue reading
 
Artwork
 
That SOCIAL WORK Lady, Season 2 is dedicated to providing a platform for Black women to share stories from their lived experience. If mediocre white men are given platforms to spew whatever whenever about nothing at all, shouldn't Black women be given the opportunity to talk about their lives, dispel myths about the stereotypes, and laugh? Of course they should. Listen to the THAT SOCIAL WORK LADY Podcast. We're building community. Here is where you belong.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Alchemy of Housing Justice

Housing Justice Collective

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
Alchemy of Housing Justice is a podcast that nests conversations about lived expertise of houselessness and housing instability within an emergent arc of system transformation and housing justice. We explore liberation topics with guests who are imagining a transformed housing future for all of us.
  continue reading
 
Can we talk... foreskin? An enlightening discussion about both current and historical events involving the issue of circumcision by experts on this important topic. We will empower you with knowledge of the amazing Four Powers of Foreskin! We also take a deep dive into the obsession some American's have to rid themselves of foreskin, harming themselves and their children in the process. The Circumcision Chronicles Podcast is produced by Intaction. Visit our website http://intaction.org
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
The Joy of Star Wars

The Joy of Star Wars

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
A Star Wars podcast that looks at how real-world history ties in with our favourite space saga. The show combines a true passion for Star Wars with a deep love of history. Hosted by Simon, Steele and Vaughn.
  continue reading
 
Artwork

1
Glocal Peace and Conflict

Collaborative Social Change

icon
Unsubscribe
icon
icon
Unsubscribe
icon
Monthly
 
Glocal Peace and Conflict has two major aims. First, to continuously illuminate global dynamics in seemingly local conflicts and vice versa, which is symbolized in the term “glocal” and second, to continuously demonstrate the utility of sharing lessons learned about violence prevention across borders regardless of one’s background. Generating this deeper understanding between the speakers and among listeners can indeed encourage a paradigm shift from thinking about conflict as a process that ...
  continue reading
 
Loading …
show series
 
On 8 October 2025, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) co-hosted a global webinar titled “Surrogacy as a Matter of Sexual and Reproductive Justice” in partnership with the Just Futures Collaborative, Center for Reproductive Rights, Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA), and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justi…
  continue reading
 
How should science shape laws and policies on reproductive health? What happens when ideology overrides evidence in decisions about IVF, abortion and reproductive autonomy? And why is the right to science a critical yet overlooked human right? In this thought-provoking episode of the SRHM Podcast, host Eszter Kismődi speaks with four authors of a g…
  continue reading
 
Send us a text In this episode of Choice Chat, host Tara discusses the complexities of abortion access in Canada with TK Pritchard, Executive Director of Abortion Care Canada. They explore the systemic barriers individuals face when seeking abortion care, the funding challenges for abortion services, and the role of crisis pregnancy centers in spre…
  continue reading
 
If you haven’t listened to Part 1 yet, go back and start there! In the first half of my conversation with longtime abortion rights activist and former nurse Joanie (@joaniephotos42 on Instagram), we talked about the devastating personal experience that ignited her love of Planned Parenthood and abortion rights activism, her early days doing clinic …
  continue reading
 
On 9 September 2025, SRHM hosted a thought-provoking webinar to launch the open-access book Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Politics of Criminalisation, edited by Satang Nabaneh, Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center, and affiliated faculty at the Center for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. Introd…
  continue reading
 
Send us a text A Personal Story on the Choice Chat Podcast In this poignant episode of Choice Chat, we share Stephanie’s deeply personal and powerful story of navigating motherhood, loss, and the decision to have an abortion. Her reflection is a testament to the complexities of reproductive choices and the long road to understanding and reclaiming …
  continue reading
 
All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology of freedom – and one of the most important tools of freedom is a library. Access to knowledge not only creates an informed populace that democracy requires, but also gives people the tools they need to thrive. And the internet has radically expanded access to k…
  continue reading
 
The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't just around the corner – it's already here. Rapidly advancing "neurotechnology" could offer new ways for people with brain trauma or degenerative disea…
  continue reading
 
Send us a text Episode 3 – Beyond the Procedure: What Does an Abortion Doula Do? Abortion is more than a medical procedure — it’s a deeply human experience. In this episode of Choice Chat’s Beyond the Procedure series, host Tara speaks with Rae Jardine, Julie Vautour, and Mel Fuller about the vital role of abortion doulas. Together, they explore ho…
  continue reading
 
In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, host Eszter Kismödi speaks with Katie Mayall, Laurenne Ajayi, and Caitlin Gruer—authors of the article Global progress in abortion law reform: a comparative legal analysis since the International Conference on Population and Development. Together, they unpack three decades of global shifts in abortion law, drawi…
  continue reading
 
In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Joanie (@JoaniePhotos42) shares how accessing abortion care as a teen shaped her lifelong advocacy. We talk about her early experience with Planned Parenthood, her work as a clinic escort in the '90s, her career as an RN, and how the same forces she resisted decades ago — misogyny, disinformation, and Christ…
  continue reading
 
For some women who want to live vibrantly as they age, the years after 60 are focused on change: downsizing, moving, learning new skills, seeing new places, building new relationships. For others, it’s about evolving by returning to your roots. Such is the case with author, teacher, actor, playwright and now theatrical producer Lori Myers, who offe…
  continue reading
 
In this episode, SRHM Chief Executive Eszter Kismödi speaks with Dr Faysal El Kak, Associate Professor at the American University of Beirut and newly elected President of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS). Against a backdrop of global political and economic turbulence, Dr El Kak reflects on the pressing challenges and emerging opportuni…
  continue reading
 
If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies, or help us live forever, or take over the world and exterminate humanity. That’s a pretty wide spectrum, and leaves a lot of people very confused about what exactly AI can and can’t do. In this…
  continue reading
 
Things we discuss: How Adam left his career as a computer engineer where he suffered from poor health and chronic fatigue and started out on his healing journey Adam’s experience in Osho Centers, a modern iteration of the group formerly known as the Rajneesh Movement, or as some call it, The Rajneesh Cult, as depicted in the Netflix documentary, “W…
  continue reading
 
In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, we explore how people in Kenya are accessing safe abortion care online in the face of restrictive laws and limited health system support. Host Julia Hussein is joined by researchers Kenneth Juma (APHRC), Hazal Atay (Women on Web/Sciences Po), and Céline Miani (Bielefeld University) to discuss their study analysi…
  continue reading
 
Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power in a few corporate hands: the surveillance capitalism that makes it profitable to invade our privacy, the lack of algorithmic transparency that turns artificial intelligence and other tech into impenetrable black boxes, the rent-seeking behavior that seeks to …
  continue reading
 
In this episode, re-released from August 2024 for World IVF Day 2025, Nina Sun, the Associated Editor of the SRHM journal, speaks to Trudie Gerrits and Andrea Whittaker, the authors of a recently published paper: Assisted reproductive technologies in sub-Saharan Africa: fertility professionals' views. Andrea is a Professor of Anthropology at the Sc…
  continue reading
 
In this episode, host Nina Sun is joined by Dana Johnson, lead author of a new SRHM study exploring the acceptability of misoprostol-only medication abortion accessed via mail-order or retail pharmacies in the United States. As abortion access is increasingly restricted across the country, many people are turning to self-managed care options—includ…
  continue reading
 
Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to overcome. But what if learning to keep your tech safe and secure was consistently playful and fun? People react better to learning, and retain more knowledge, when they're having a good time. It doesn’t mean the topic isn’t serious – it’s just about intentionally …
  continue reading
 
Send us a text In this episode of Choice Chat, we’re talking all about the logistics of abortion in Canada — what happens before, during, and after. Host Tara sits down with registered midwife Jenni Huntley and nurse practitioner/midwife Christy Tashjian to break down each step of the journey, from taking that first pregnancy test to deciding on ca…
  continue reading
 
In this powerful conversation, host and SRHM Editorial Board member Laura Ferguson is joined by reproductive justice scholars Cordelia Freeman and Hala Shoman, authors of “No Justice in a Genocide”, to explore the devastating impact of war on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Gaza. They speak about: — What’s happening to SRH servi…
  continue reading
 
Latvian feminist writer Inga Gaile confronts uncomfortable topics while grappling with her country's complex national psyche...and her own relationship to it. CORRECTIONS: Inga and I regret our errors in the podcast: She has 15 published works in Latvian, https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inga_Gaile, and there are "only" a million Latvian folksongs!…
  continue reading
 
The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that even the strongest computers will take essentially forever to do certain tasks, like factoring prime numbers and finding discrete logarithms which are important for RSA encryption, Diffie-Hellman key exchanges, and elliptic curve encryption. But what happens when…
  continue reading
 
Edu Ara is a consciousness musician and a director of the NGO, Aldeia do Futuro, (Village of the Future), a group that empowers the Huni Kuin people, an indigenous group out of Acre, Brazil, by cultivating autonomy and safety from the effects of deforestation, and preserving Huni Kuin culture. Edu is a bridge between the Huni Kuin and non-indigenou…
  continue reading
 
What does abortion access really look like in Ireland—before and after legal reform? In this powerful episode of the SRHM Podcast, host Mindy Jane Roseman is joined by three leading researchers—Niamh Skelly, Dyuti Chakravarty, and Lorraine Grimes—whose work reveals the lived realities behind Ireland’s evolving abortion landscape. From the emotional…
  continue reading
 
Today, we mark the anniversary of the Dobbs decision with an insightful podcast featuring members from the second cohort of the rePROFilm and Peace is Loud Collective Lens Program. We’re joined by some truly inspiring storytellers who are here to remind us that we’ll never stop fighting for reproductive justice - especially through a means as power…
  continue reading
 
Juliana Piccillo is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and sex worker rights activist. She is the producer of “I was a Teenage Prostitute” and “The Celluloid Bordello,” and was a story consultant for Sean Baker on "Red Rocket,” a Palme d’or-nominated film. As a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona for ten years, she taught film, video and …
  continue reading
 
Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of protecting democracy. But what does it take to digitally secure journalists’ work in an environment where critics, hackers, oppressive regimes, and others seem to have the free press in their crosshairs? That’s what Harlo Holmes focuses on as Freedom of the Pre…
  continue reading
 
Send us a text In this premiere episode of Choice Chat, host Tara sits down with Dr. Renée Hall, a veteran abortion provider and contraception advocate. With over 25 years in the field, Dr. Hall shares her personal journey, the challenges of navigating stigma, and the urgent need for reproductive health education in Canada. From the impact of polit…
  continue reading
 
Dans ce premier épisode du podcast du Hub Afrique francophone de SRHM, fondé en 2019, Bouchra Assarag et Vincent De Brouwere accueillent Vanessa Dossi Sekpon, autrice d’une étude percutante sur les normes sociales autour de l’avortement chez les jeunes femmes au Bénin. Ensemble, ils explorent les pressions normatives, les dynamiques familiales, et …
  continue reading
 
Isabelle Kramer is an Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga teacher and Esalen massage therapist with over 12 years of professional and international experience building and leading health and wellness communities. In addition to leading the Ashtanga Yoga Club in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Isabelle offers online private and in-person group Mysore style classes in the Vaudr…
  continue reading
 
In this episode of the SRHM Podcast, SRHM Advcocacy and External Relations Manager, Lisa Welsh, speaks with Lore Remmerie, Nicole Leonetti and Aslan Temirkhanov — co-authors of a new research article in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters — about reimagining how we define and support sexual well-being among young people. Together, they present a…
  continue reading
 
Why are America’s Young Men Falling Even Further Behind? Why do men in their 20s and early 30s say they feel aimless and isolated? Could the issue of forced male genital cutting or circumcision be affecting them? Anthony Losquadro, director of Intaction will discuss. We will also bring you on the inside of the latest legislative action regarding bo…
  continue reading
 
Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if collaboration and community breeds innovation just as well as adversarial competition? Isabela Fernandes believes free, open-source software has helped build th…
  continue reading
 
Circumcision, from ancient times to the present, is about exerting power and control over the individual. Also, some women may use circumcision to exert dominance over men. This video explores these issues, while also reporting on Intaction/HEC's legislative advocacy efforts in New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Mississippi. Read our article in The…
  continue reading
 
Trump wants to make Canada our 51st state. But when you hear about Canada's overwhelmingly strong support for reproductive rights, you may wish it were the other way around. (I sure do!) In this episode, Sabrina Baldini, founder, After Sex Ed, joins me to unpack what’s happening on both sides of the border: from sneaky anti-choice “private member b…
  continue reading
 
Gwen Walsh is a sexuality and spirituality consultant. She has a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, and works with individuals, couples, and corporate clients such as Durex, K-Y, and L,Oreal. She has been featured in Refinery 29 and Marie Claire magazine, and currently works within the Maine Community College System to …
  continue reading
 
In this episode, SRHM Chief Executive, Eszter Kismodi, speaks to Gustavo Ortiz Millán, Editor in Chief of the recently launched journal 'Bioética UNAM', an academic journal publishing in bioethics, including in SRHR, from UNAM University, Mexico. The UNAM Bioethics journal , published by the UNAM Bioethics University Program, is dedicated to commun…
  continue reading
 
In this episode, Eszter Kismodi, Chief Executive of SRHM, speaks to Nelly Munyasia and Edison Omollo from the Reproductive Health Network Keyna (RHNK) about the upcoming 8th Pan-African Adolescent and Youth SRHR Scientific Conference on 24th - 27th June 2025 in Mombasa, Kenya. It is still possible to register for the conference and organize side ev…
  continue reading
 
Loading …
Copyright 2025 | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | | Copyright
Listen to this show while you explore
Play