WDI Podcast

This week's speakers are:Sheila Jeffreys  UK/AustraliaNews on Womanface from USA and the Mardi Gras in Sydney, AustraliaBio: Radical lesbian feminist author and activistBatya Weinbaum & Sue Gittins  USA & UKWhatever happened to the incest survivors movement?Bio: Batya - Activist, writer, artist, Editor, educator, theorist based in the US and a radical feminist since the 1970s, published many articles and books, poetry and fictionTatyana Sukhareva  RussiaRadical Feminism in Russia and GeorgiaBio: My name is Tatyana Sukhareva, and I am one of the leaders of the Russian-speaking feminist movement. I am a citizen of Russia, but I live in Georgia now. I am a radical feminist, a lesbian, and childfree.  I actively advocate for increasing women's representation in positions of power, against heteronormativity and the stigmatization of lesbians and asexual women, and for full reproductive freedom for women, including the unconditional right to voluntary sterilization. I am an active feminist blogger: I run two Telegram channels and an active Facebook blog with more than 7,500 followers.  I am the Chair of the Interregional Public Organization “Women's Voice.”♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀Enjoying our webinars? If you are a position to make a one-off or recurring donation to support our work, you can find out how to do so (and see our financial reports) at https://www.womensdeclaration.com/en/donate/ - thank-you!♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀Women's Declaration International (#WDI) Feminist Question Time is a weekly online webinar (Saturdays 3-4.30pm UK time). It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. See upcoming speakers and register to attend at https://bit.ly/registerFQT. There is also a monthly AUS/NZ FQT, on the last Saturday of the month at 7pm (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney)/9pm (NZ). Register to attend at https://bit.ly/registerFQTAUSNZ.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series, Radical Feminist Perspectives, offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics. Register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only; men are welcome to watch/share recordings here on YouTube. WDI is the leading global organisation defending women's sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. Find out more at https://womensdeclaration.com, where you can join more than 30,000 people and 418 organisations from 157 countries in signing our Declaration on Women's Sex-based Rights. The Declaration reaffirms the sex-based rights of women which are set out in the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 1979 (#CEDAW).Disclaimer: Women's Declaration International hosts a range of women from all over the world on Feminist Question Time (FQT), on Radical Feminist Perspectives (RFP) and on webinars hosted by country chapters – all have signed our Declaration or have known histories of feminist activism - but beyond that, we do not know their exact views or activism. WDI does not know in detail what they will say on webinars. The views expressed by speakers in these videos are not necessarily those of WDI and we do not necessarily support views or actions that speakers have expressed or engaged in at other times. As well as the position stated in our Declaration on Women's Sex-based Rights, WDI opposes sexism, racism and anti-semitism. For more information, see our Frequently Asked Questions (https://womensdeclaration.com/en/about/faqs/) or email info@womensdeclaration.com.#feminism #radicalfeminism #womensrights

RFP - 'Barbie Meets A Very Poor Thing' by Jocelynne Scutt, discussed by Jocelynne Scutt and Marian Rutigliano.A live webinar recorded on 25th January at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

This week's speakers are:Sheila Jeffreys UK/Australia - The Campaign for the Sexual Abuse of Children in 70s UKTamarack Verrall Canada - Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based RightsKara Dansky USA - Two US Supreme Court cases involving male athletes demanding to compete in women's sportsApril Chainey USA - Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀Enjoying our webinars? If you are a position to make a one-off or recurring donation to support our work, you can find out how to do so (and see our financial reports) at https://www.womensdeclaration.com/en/donate/ - thank-you!♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀♀Women's Declaration International (#WDI) Feminist Question Time is a weekly online webinar (Saturdays 3-4.30pm UK time). It is attended by a global feminist and activist audience of between 200-300. The main focus is how gender ideology is harming the rights of women and girls. See upcoming speakers and register to attend at https://bit.ly/registerFQT. There is also a monthly AUS/NZ FQT, on the last Saturday of the month at 7pm (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney)/9pm (NZ). Register to attend at https://bit.ly/registerFQTAUSNZ.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series, Radical Feminist Perspectives, offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics. Register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only; men are welcome to watch/share recordings here on YouTube. WDI is the leading global organisation defending women's sex-based rights against the threats posed by gender identity ideology. Find out more at https://womensdeclaration.com, where you can join more than 30,000 people and 418 organisations from 157 countries in signing our Declaration on Women's Sex-based Rights. The Declaration reaffirms the sex-based rights of women which are set out in the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 1979 (#CEDAW).Disclaimer: Women's Declaration International hosts a range of women from all over the world on Feminist Question Time (FQT), on Radical Feminist Perspectives (RFP) and on webinars hosted by country chapters – all have signed our Declaration or have known histories of feminist activism - but beyond that, we do not know their exact views or activism. WDI does not know in detail what they will say on webinars. The views expressed by speakers in these videos are not necessarily those of WDI and we do not necessarily support views or actions that speakers have expressed or engaged in at other times. As well as the position stated in our Declaration on Women's Sex-based Rights, WDI opposes sexism, racism and anti-semitism. For more information, see our Frequently Asked Questions (https://womensdeclaration.com/en/about/faqs/) or email info@womensdeclaration.com.#feminism #radicalfeminism #womensrights

RFP - 'Backlash' by Susan Faludi, discussed by Anna Kerr and Bronwyn Williams.A live webinar recorded on 18th January 2026 at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

Kate Ramsden is a retired social worker of over 40 years, during which time she was also an active trade unionist. She is still involved in initiatives to support ethical social work practice. She is joint secretary of Aberdeen Trades Union Council and a delegate to the STUC Women's Committee and is involved in a number of left initiatives including writing for the Morning Star.

Lierre Keith and Joni Zander, USA, WoLF Lawfare and RadFem Summer camp

Feminist Question Time LIVE - Programme Saturday 3pm UK time.

10 January 2026Host: Jo BrewYal & Afghan WomenAfghanistanAfghan women from inside Afghan will share their situation under the control of the talibanLierre Keith and Joni ZanderUSAWoLF LawfareKate RamsdenScotlandWhy I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights

RFP - 'Unveiled' by Yasmine Mohammed, discussed by Sara Ghorbani and Lierre Keith.A pre-recorded webinar first shown on 11th Jan 2026 at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

Jocelyn Crawley is a radical feminist thinker who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She enjoys thinking, talking, reading, and writing about strategies for resistance that women and girls can utilize to create worlds marked by subjectivity and self-actualization. Above all, she believes that the most radical act a woman can engage in is reading radical literature.

Amie Ichikawa was incarcerated at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla for five years. She realized there is a major lack of re-entry services for women and limited accessibility to those available services upon release. She is one of the founding members of womaniiwoman who's goal is to empower incarcerated women to stand up for themselves and become actively involved in campaigning for their own freedom.

I am an academic in education, who had experienced an activist environment within the university, and in sports, and who saw that the psychological support for the student was fragmented and replaced with the ulterior motives of disorganized teachers. Curriculum that is bound in woke political activism destroys the natural development and security of the student. When the rights of the student are secondary to the activism of poorly developed adults, entire cultures become broken.

Patricia Sornosa is a comedian, writer, actress and feminist communicator born in Manises (Valencia) in 1977. As a comedian, she cultivates a direct and very personal style. Hers is a combative humour that makes no concessions to political correctness, with a certain inclination towards the most controversial topics. Patricia continues to write and perform her comedy shows in venues and theatres, offering the audience her sarcastic opinion on the issues that matter to her, regardless of the fact that no one has asked her for it.

Feminist Question Time LIVE - a women only event - 13 December 2025, Host: Amparo DomingoPatricia Sornosa, Spain, Comedian Censored due to her radical feminist views on genderLara Forsberg, USA, Gender Ideology in SchoolsAmie Ichikawa, USA, Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based RightsJocelyn Crawley, USA, Sexual Assault as Core to Patriarchy

RFP - 'Right-Wing Women' by Andrea Dworkin, discussed by Dorothea Annison and Batya Weinbaum.A live webinar recorded on 14th December 2025 at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

Kara Dansky is a lawyer, public speaker, and feminist. She served as president of WDI USA from 2021 to 2024 and on the board of the Women's Liberation Front from 2016 to 2020. In 2023, she published The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls. She currently writes on Substack at The TERF Report.

I signed the Declaration for the historical account, to join in efforts to bring attention to the harms of gender and violence against women. I want to end patriarchy's subjugation of women, I want to peak women to patriarchy and how it impacts their everyday lives - specifically the Declaration's statement: "To modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women" I believe this is where patriarchy will end, by changing the social patterns and peaking women to the world they are living in and are mostly unaware of the social grooming and covert abuse they experience under patriarchy. Bringing attention to feminist organizations that we need to reach girls, young women and mothers to end the patriarchal cycles our society encourages. Peaking to Trans ideology - slow boil for years, some eye opening personal experiences, finally through a female led podcast I really became enraged at how gender ideology was erasing women's sex-based rights.

Woman, mother, lesbian, abolitionist and counselor for people with disabilities. Currently not with any organisation.

Feminist Question Time LIVE - a women only event 6 December 2025, Host: Jo BrewAlex Preußner, Germany, Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based RightsLauren, USA, Peaking to Patriarchy & Trans HarmsKara Dansky, USA, Why the history of a movement is important

RFP - 'The Straight Mind' by Monique Wittig, discussed by Susan Hawthorne. A live webinar recorded on 7th December 2025 at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

TERFLandia: How the Global Terven Will Win the Gender Wars - discussion about the upcoming book with Maria Binetti and Analía Vitale from Latin America

TERFLandia: How the Global Terven Will Win the Gender Wars - discussion about the upcoming book with Sally Wainwright and Julia Long from TERF Island

Róisín Michaux EuropeTERFLandia: How the Global Terven Will Win the Gender Wars - discussion about the upcoming bookFeminist Question Time LIVE - a women only event - 29 November 2025 Host Kara Dansky

Feminist Question Time LIVE - a women only event - 29 November 2025 Host Kara DanskyTERFLandia: How the Global Terven Will Win the Gender Wars - discussion about the upcoming bookKara Dansky USASally Wainwright TERF IslandJulia Long TERF IslandRóisín Michaux EuropeMaria Binetti Latin AmericaAnalía Vitale Latin AmericaRegister for the FQT series: http://bit.ly/4nr8rC8Today, we'll be talking about TERFLandia: How the GlobalTerven Will Win the Gender Wars.TERFLandia is likely to be a book to be published in the fall of2026. The Australian feminist publisher Spinifex has expressedinterest in publishing it. Its inspiration was an exchangebetween me and Julia Long during one of the FeministQuestion Time break-out sessions a while ago. Julia and I werediscussing the importance of documenting all the hard workwomen have been doing, all over the world, for a very longtime, to protect our sex-based rights.Personally, I have noticed that many more women arespeaking out today than were doing ten years ago, and evenbefore that. This is great! All newcomers are welcome andencouraged to be loud. I do my best to highlight their voices ina weekly series I publish on Substack titled FFS Friday, whereFFS stands for Female Free Speech. A lot of people see FFSand they think it stands for For F's Sake, and of course it doesmean that too. I just don't say that out loud.I reached out to several women to write chapters about thework women have been doing in their countries for severaldecades, and many stepped up to do so. Many of us are heretoday.

TERFLandia: How the Global Terven Will Win the Gender Wars - discussion about the upcoming bookKara Dansky USASally Wainwright TERF IslandJulia Long TERF Island

RFP - ‘Kiss Daddy Goodnight' and ‘Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics: What happened when women said incest' by Louise Armstrong, discussed by Sheila Jeffreys & Dorothea Annison.A live webinar recorded on 30 November 2025 at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

Marie Josèphe Devillers: I am a lesbian feminist activist. I am the co-president and co-founder of ICASM (the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood), an umbrella organisation comprising 50 member organisations from 17 countries and operating across three continents.

Aly is a female business owner and founder of a mental health clinic that is thriving despite her near fatal motorcycle accident in 2020. Despite her own mother's contemplation with abortion in 1969 and her own pregnancy out of wedlock in 1994, she is the mother of two adult children and soon to be two grandchildren. She knows personally the battle of living with mental illness as a trauma survivor of sexual abuse and narcissistic abuse. God in all His glory created man. And then Woman!!! He knew how important we are!!!

Karen Browne lives in the west of Ireland and has had a lifelong interest in women's rights. She is a member of Let Women Speak and believes that taking action is important, whether through stickering, talking to people, engaging with government, or using social media. Living with disabilities, she is also interested in how these experiences affect women. Her main interests are creative writing, reading, and drawing.

Annie Gouilleux is 77 years old, lives on her own in Lyon in France. She is a retired English teacher turned translator, and now she's " come home" in the radical feminist mouvement, at least that's how it feels.

Karla Mantilla is a longtime feminist who cut her teeth on feminist activism and theory as a collective member of off our backs newsjournal. She taught sociology, research methods, and statistics at a variety of colleges and universities in the Washington, DC, and surrounding area. She worked for nearly 18 years as the managing editor of an academic women's studies journal. Throughout her tenure there, she witnessed the field of academic women's studies devolve into something unrecognizable as feminism to her

Feminist Question Time - 22 November 2025 Host Jo BrewKarla Mantilla, USA, The ways that the LGBT movement, by being overtly and covertly a gay male movement, set the stage for transgenderism.Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based RightsAnnie Gouilleux, FranceKaren Browne, IrelandAly McGee LICSW., USA

Susan Hawthorne has been reading about prehistory for nearly 50 years.She even enrolled in a Philosophy PHD entitled ‘Belief Systems in the AncientWorld' in 1979. One year in it became impossible because all the philosopherswanted her to read was postmodernism. She threw in the PhD and began studyingancient languages, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and some Latin. Instead of her PhD,she wrote a novel, The Falling Woman (1992) which includes some mythicmaterial. Her main work in the mythic area is poetry. In The ButterflyEffect (2005) she unpacks lesbian language and metaphor; in Cow(2011) she follows a cow called Queenie from her invention of the universe tothe present; in Lupa and Lamb (2014) she pulls apart the history ofRome, its wolves and lambs and lost texts found in an ancient museum; in TheSacking of the Muses (2019) she follows myths from India and Greece,including several translations. Poetry allows for experimentation and formaking things up in order to show a different way of seeing the world. She iscurrently working on a book, Ulyssea in which she imagines alesbian-centric Amazon world.

15 November 2025 Host Jo Brew; Karla Mantilla USA What Happened to Academic Women's Studies?; Sam Brown Canada Combatting the Canadian Hate Act; Pam Steele Australia Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights - Who bears the cost of violence against women and children - Full FQT

Previously operating at C-level in corporate environments and leading IT development and enterprise change initiatives, Pam Steele has now earned the label of survivor. She wants to reinvent support services for female victims of violence to minimise harm and disruption to them and their children, using her experience to deliver the best victim-centred services in the world.

Sam Brown is a Canadian mother and women's activist. She was the Ontario coordinator for WDI Canada until recently, when she took over from Linda Blade as the Canadian coordinator. She is also involved in local activism in Ontario opposing gender ideology, school board overreach, and the erosion of women's rights in Canada.

Karla Mantilla is a longtime feminist who cut her teeth on feminist activism and theory as a collective member of off our backs newsjournal. She taught sociology, research methods, and statistics at a variety of colleges and universities in the Washington, DC, and surrounding area. She worked for nearly 18 years as the managing editor of an academic women's studies journal. Throughout her tenure there, she witnessed the field of academic women's studies devolve into something unrecognizable as feminism to her.

'Radical Reckonings' by Renate Klein, discussed by Renate Klein and Sheila Jeffreys.A live webinar recorded on 16th November 2025 at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

Andreana Sutherland Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights

Dr. Amy Chai, MD, MS USA The Impact of Gender Identity Ideology on Women with Mental Health and Addiction Problems

Marie-Josèphe Devillers, ICAMS, Surrogacy: An update on the global feminist fight for its abolition.https://youtu.be/Dxhn_k2U154

RFP - 'Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism' edited by Dorhen Leidholdt and Janice Raymond, discussed by Karla Mantilla & Marian Rutigliano. A live webinar recorded on 9th November 2025 at 10am UK time.You can download a PDF of the book here: https://frauenkultur.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/The-Sexual-Liberals-and-the-Attack-on-Feminism.pdfand listen to recordings of speeches from the conference here: https://www.catwa.org.au/historical-rrecordings/On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

The Hon. Dr Jocelynne A Scutt - When a Woman's Body is Not her Own –Regulating Women through Abortion Law

Feminist Question Time 1st Nov 2025 with Sue England, Pallavi Devulapalli, The Hon. Dr Jocelynne A Scutt and Kara Dansky

Dr Pallavi Devulapalli - Why I signed the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights - in conversation with Kara Dansky

Sue EnglandGermany/UKThe great global birthrate drop has arrived. Women are changing our world.

RFP - ‘Alan's Wife', and ‘Votes for Women!' by Elizabeth Robins, discussed by Kate Newey.A live webinar recorded on 2nd November 2025 at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

RFP - The monsterification of women, discussed by aurora linnea.A live webinar recorded on 26th October 2025 at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP

Feminist Question Time LIVE - a women only event - 18th October 2025Gunda Schumann, Germany, The Aftermath of SBGG (self ID law) in Germany.WDI USA Growing the Women's Liberation Movement.Marie Moisdon WDI France, Nous Femmes Video from WDI France 5th Oct 2025

RFP - Amazon Grace by Mary Daly, discussed by Jo Brew.A live webinar recorded on 19th Oct 2025 at 10am UK time.On Sundays (10am UK time), our webinar series Radical Feminist Perspectives offers a chance to hear leading feminists discuss radical feminist theory and politics.Attendance of our live webinars is women-only, register at https://bit.ly/registerRFP