Onyesonwu Chatoyer rejoins me for this episode and we discuss Patriarchy. Onyesonwu is A Cadre and organizer with the AAPRP, editor with Hood Communist (an anti-imperialist online publication), on the national coordinating committee of the Venceremos brigade (an organization opposing the U.S. embargo and travel ban, supporting normalized relations and recognizing Cuba’s accomplishments).

We talk about the challenge that silent patriarchy creates a culture of fear in those who have to face it daily; the nature, mechanisms, and manifestations of systemic patriarchy, its structural and ideological force; women trauma and patriarchy; and that the toxic nature of patriarchy and sexism can exist without men being present.