Podcasts about human liberation

Welcome to the 106th edition podcast of Women's Liberation Radio News. First up, hear aurora linnea greet the listener before handing the mic to Mary O'Neill for women's news from around the world. Next, enjoy the song "Heaven is a Place on Earth" an old 80's pop favored re-imagined by Allison Lorenzen. After the song, stay tuned for excerpts of a LIVE round table discussion the WLRN team held on January 11th with aurora to discuss her book, Man Against Being: Body Horror & the Death of Life. Finally, enjoy this month's commentary from WLRN team member Margaret Moss who speaks to us about how human society is organized around serving the alpha males, something we should have left behind long ago in our journey here on earth. To learn more about ecofeminism, aurora has put together a list of books and articles to explore published below. AN ECOFEMINIST READING LIST This list does not claim nor attempt to be comprehensive; instead it is meant as a primer for readers keen to delve into ecofeminist theory. Jane Caputi The Age of Sex Crime (1987) Gossip, Gorgons & Crones: The Fates of the Earth (1993) Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture (2004) Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962) Andree Collard with Joyce Contrucci, Rape of the Wild: Man's Violence Against Animals and the Earth (1989) Irene Diamond, Fertile Ground: Women, Earth, and the Limits of Control (1994) Francoise d'Eaubonne, Feminism or Death: How the Women's Movement Can Save the Planet (1974) Greta Gaard, Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (1998) Susan Griffin Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (1978) Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature (1981) The Eros of Everyday Life: Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society (1995) Susan Hawthorne Wild Politics (2002) Vortex: The Crisis of Patriarchy (2020) Marti Kheel, Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective (2007) Freya Mathews, Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture (2005) Carolyn Merchant The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution (1980) Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World (1992) Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture (2003) Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993) Rosemary Radford Ruether, New Woman, New Earth: Sexist Ideologies and Human Liberation (1975) Ariel Salleh, Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx and the Postmodern (1997) Vandana Shiva Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (1988) Monocultures of the Mind (1993) Oneness Vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom (2018) Vandana Shiva and Maria Mies, Ecofeminism (1993) Charlene Spretnak, The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World (1999) Karen Warren Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature (1997) Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What it Is and Why it Matters (2000) ANTHOLOGIES Reclaim the Earth: Women Speak Out for Life on Earth, eds. Leonie Caldecott and Stephanie Leland (1984) Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism, ed. Judith Plant (1989) Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, eds. Irene Diamond & Gloria Orenstein (1990) Ecofeminism and the Sacred, ed. Carol Adams (1993) Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature, ed. Greta Gaard (1993) Animals and Women: Feminist Theoretical Explorations, eds. Carol Adams and Josephine Donovan (1995) Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth, ed. Carol Adams (2014)

Unlock genuine freedom and self-confidence with Joel Bein, the visionary founder of Human Liberation, as we explore the intricate journey of overcoming self-doubt. Ever wondered how even the most successful individuals silence their inner critic? Joel's innovative approach to subtracting negative subconscious beliefs is your answer. He guides us to shift the focus from external validation to internal belief systems, empowering us to live authentically without the crutch of endless self-help routines.Joel shares compelling insights into how deep-seated beliefs shape our daily lives and decision-making. With engaging narratives, like the "Santa Claus effect," he illustrates how recognizing and confronting false beliefs can lead to personal empowerment and lasting release from childhood conditioning. Through his transformative method, Joel encourages us to challenge our self-worth beliefs, money anxieties, and the loneliness often felt in entrepreneurship, offering practical tools to clear these limiting beliefs and foster personal growth.Join us for a powerful conversation on reclaiming your personal power and reducing reliance on external authority figures. Learn how Joel Bein's wisdom and actionable strategies can help you transition from self-doubt to inspired action. Whether it's tackling ingrained beliefs around money or taking the first step towards change, Joel equips you with the knowledge needed to embrace your potential and lead a more fulfilled, authentic life.Join the What if it Did Work movement on FacebookGet the Book!www.omarmedrano.comwww.calendly.com/omarmedrano/15min

In this episode: Limiting beliefs, Personal growth, Mindfulness, Financial Independence, Career empowerment with Joel BeinEpisode SummaryIn this episode of the Mindful Fire podcast, host Adam Coelho welcomes Joel Bein to discuss the impact of limiting beliefs on personal growth and career paths. Joel shares insights on how these beliefs can create barriers in our lives and offers strategies for overcoming them. The conversation emphasizes the importance of awareness, choice, and self-empowerment in achieving a fulfilling life.Guest BioJoel Bein is a passionate advocate for personal growth and education. With a background in music education and extensive experience in the field, he has dedicated the past 15 years to exploring the root causes of mindset blocks and obstacles. Joel helps individuals come alive by fostering curiosity, creativity, and a value creation mindset through his work with Career Hackers and his own initiatives.Resources & Books MentionedSelf Authoring Program by Jordan PetersonHuman Liberation (Joel's initiative)Guest Contact InformationJoel's website: https://joelbein.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-bein-9b8343110/Human Liberation: https://thehumanliberation.co/fireJoel's podcasts: https://joelbein.com/podcast-2/Key TakeawaysLimiting beliefs often stem from childhood experiences and can significantly impact our actions and decisions.Awareness of these beliefs is crucial for making empowered choices in life and career.Mindfulness practices can help individuals identify and challenge their limiting beliefs.The power of choice plays a vital role in personal empowerment; recognizing that we choose our paths can shift our mindset. Building a future-oriented vision can motivate individuals to pursue their goals, even in the face of obstacles. Self-compassion is essential when working through limiting beliefs; understanding that these beliefs are parts of us can foster healing and growth.PS: Introducing the…

Scott Lemriel has written four books about extraterrestrials intervening in human affairs from ancient times to the present. He describes shapeshifting Reptilians that played a large role in manipulating human affairs and a benevolent extraterrestrial organization called the “Galactic Inter-dimensional Alliance of Free Worlds”. He claims that all negative extraterrestrials left our planet and solar system 25 years ago due to the arrival of the Galactic Alliance and the appearance of golden pyramids out of higher dimensions. In this Exopolitics Today interview, Lemriel discusses his extraterrestrial-related experiences that began in childhood and continue to the present day. He discusses how the appearance of the golden pyramids has been a game changer on Earth and led to the departure of negative extraterrestrials, thereby guaranteeing that humanity is on a single timeline to ascension. Scott Lemriel's website is: https://www.ParallelTime.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exopoliticstoday/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exopoliticstoday/support

Dr. Hope Ferdowsian, president of Phoenix Zones Initiatives (PZI) and a public health physician, discusses how she and her colleagues are working to dismantle the roots of oppression, exploitation, and domination harming humans and non-humans. She highlights the physical and psychological suffering and harm that animals face in food production and in research labs, and how this systematic exploitation of animals is linked to violence and conflict globally. These same systems, propped up through powerful lobbying efforts by corporate elites, also contribute to global issues like hunger, malnutrition, species extinction, climate change, and infectious diseases. Using ethics-based policy interventions within academia, public health, and intergovernmental organizations, PZI is working to transform these systems. Hope highlights the “phoenix effect” she has witnessed among human and nonhuman survivors of severe suffering who have rebounded, recovered, and healed. She shares how as practitioners and advocates of social and ecological justice we can cultivate the strength and resilience needed to facilitate that transformation for ourselves and for those in need. See episode website for show notes, links, and transcript: https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/hope-ferdowsian ABOUT US The Overpopulation Podcast features enlightening conversations between Population Balance executive director Nandita Bajaj, researcher Alan Ware, and expert guests. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental restoration, as well as individual and collective solutions. Learn more here: https://www.populationbalance.org/   

If you've followed me for any amount of time you know my own personal sales and business transformation and going from stuck at the same level for over a decade to 10X'ing my income within 6 weeks did not come from working harder. It came from diving deep into my subconscious programs that were hindering me and keeping me stuck, and developing a new belief system that empowered me to quantum leap.  As I now teach and believe - your results will never supersede your identity.  So today we get to go deep with an expert in reprogramming the subconscious mind and removing limiting beliefs that may have persisted for most of our lives. My guest today is Joel Bein, the founder of Human Liberation, where he shares a revolutionary approach to removing negative beliefs from the subconscious mind, freeing people from their unwanted thoughts and emotions.  Joel Bein helps people become whole, curious, creative, and empowered to live a life that makes them come alive. He has created hundreds of articles and podcasts to support an empowered, 21st-century creative mindset, and has shared the microphone and collaborated with thought leaders and entrepreneurs such as Ryan Nicodemus, Madeline Mann, John Barrows, and Scott Leese. As a passionate seeker of personal growth and mental well-being, he is Founder of Human Liberation, which shares a revolutionary approach to remove negative beliefs from the subconscious mind, freeing people from their unwanted thoughts and emotions.   Show Notes: [3:17] - Joel's personal development story started early, at only age 18. He was drawn to learning more about creating a healthy world. [5:19] - As children, we create stories to make sense of these. But they become baggage and get in the way as we become adults. [7:23] - Amazing things are unlocked when we learn how to be our authentic selves again. [9:02] - You have needs that money simply cannot meet. [11:00] - We tend to hold back and sit on our needs. [12:09] - What is the belief that is holding you back? [15:19] - Affirmations are valuable, but it is the hardest thing for people to find value in. [17:02] - Until we deal with the part of us that truly believes something limiting, affirmations will not be as impactful. [19:33] - Money is a common taboo topic and an area of contention for a lot of people who don't feel worthy of having it. [21:33] - Joel explains how to do a gut check on a limiting belief. [25:34] - Integrate the body and the mind. Your body will feel the limiting belief. [29:27] - The hustle mindset is something that needs to be dismantled. Joel is a fan of something called High Performing Loafing. [31:10] - Rest and relaxation is key to your brain's performance. [32:49] - It is hard to let go of the instilled belief that we are not doing enough. [34:21] - Self care can be interpreted in a lot of different ways. For some people, this can swing the pendulum in the other direction. [36:45] - The methods Joel teaches eliminates the limiting beliefs. [40:18] - The emotional impact of this work can be very fast if you are open to it. [41:09] - Joel has put together a guide for listeners of She Sells Radio. Check it out here: https://thehumanliberation.co/elyse/    Connect with Joel: Joel Bien on LinkedIn Human Liberation Website Get the guide, Get To the Root – The Keys to Permanently End Negative Self-Talk   Links and Resources: Instagram  |  LinkedIn  |  YouTube She Sells with Elyse Archer Home Page Abundance Mini Course Join the $10K Club Apply for the $50K Club Mastermind  

You cannot just muscle your way through things. Our challenges are habitual, not natural. Joel Bein of Human Liberation joins us share some amazing advice. Unnecessary over hustling Confusing activity with productivity Learning to trust yourself. Stopping the negative self-talk loops Why are sales people afraid to ask for the close? Big props to Hubspot for making us a part of the Hubspot Podcasting Network! They even offer free tools to help your sales and marketing team. Click Here  Connect with us on LinkedIn Richard Harris Scott Leese Want to go to Costa Rica? Come to the next Surf and Sales event! Register Here! Get a free assesmment with Joel here   

MPF Discussion with Rúna Magnúsdóttir A New Paradigm For Gender Equality with Rúna MagnúsdóttirAbout Rúna Leadership Coach, Speaker, Author and MentorRúna Magnúsdóttir, (a.k.a. Runa Magnus) is the new paradigmleadership coach and mentor founder and CEO The ChangeMakers, co-creator of #NoMoreBoxes The TransformationalMovement, the Antidote to Division and Black and White Thinking. She is the creator and host of The Change Makers Podcast and an inspirational international speaker, strategist and author from Iceland.Known for her humour and a keen sense and insight into human behaviour, Rúna is known for her ability to create an open space for different kinds of conversations in a way that participants feel safe and inclusive.She is the author of the books and programmes, Branding Your X-factor and co-author of The Story of Boxes, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. - and the creator of The Game of Boxes, the game that expands, challenges and helps humanity to break free from their social conditioning.She has received a number of international awards, including TIAWThe 100 World of Difference Award 2009, The Leadership Awardfrom The Network for Transformational Leaders 2019, The EU-WIIN2011 Awards for Capacity Building just to name a few. Rúna currently dedicates her work to guiding, mentoring and coaching leaders and the new paradigm politicians, supporting them to become the change they want to see in their world.On this episode of My Perfect Failure (A New Paradigm For Gender Equality) We are joined by the fantastic Rúna Magnúsdóttir.  Rúna is all about change and transformation, she is an advocate that we are all blessed with a Gift unique to each and every one of us.Rúna explains how Gender-based behaviour and values are a social construct – a Box to put us in disguised as a liberating force or a method to understand each other.Rúna believes that when you came to earth, you promised to be something or do something. Don't let the socially constructed nature of your gender steal that promise. Be your unique and wonderful self in all its glorious shades of brilliance, realise your gift. Some of the areas we cover.⦁We are all born with a gift⦁The limitations of Social Constructs ⦁We discuss Rúna book, The Story of Boxes, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Secret to Human Liberation, Peace and Happiness⦁Why being nice changes our frequency⦁Transformation Grab your copy off: The Story of Boxes, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Secret to Human Liberation, Peace and Happiness⦁https://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Boxes-Good-Bad-Ugly-ebook/dp/B07K7SJML2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=R%C3%BAna+Magn%C3%BAsd%C3%B3ttir&qid=1668276480&sr=8-2Connect with Rúna⦁https://runamagnus.comBook your place on the game of Boxes Game⦁https://thegameofboxes.worldJoin the Game of Boxes Movement⦁https://nomoreboxesmovement.comThe Change Makers Podcasthttps://www.runamagnus.com/podcastPlease Leave A ReviewLike this show? Please leave us a review here, even one sentence helps! Consider including your Twitter handle so we can thank you personally!Paul: Contact Details ·         Work with me: paul@myperfectfailure.com·         MPF Website: http://www.myperfectfailure.com/ ·         Insta: follow: https://www.instagram.com/myperfectfailure/  ·         Twitter: https://twitter.com/failure_perfect ·         Facebook MPF Private Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/377418129517757/

Hold onto your bubbles LOAer's, do we ever have an incredible episode for you all!  Holli and Jeanna introduce you to their newest dear friend from across the pond (yep, Great Britain!) Nicholas Haines. This episode is jam packed with teaching, inspiration, and such generosity of spirit that we are sure you will enjoy the conversation (hopefully as much as the LOA gals did!) and learn what we all have to look forward to in this new Chinese Lunar Year of the Water Tiger (began on 2/1/2022). More about Nicholas: Nick is an entrepreneur, international speaker, strategist, author and teacher in Chinese Energetics. He has spent all his adult life practically applying the wisdom of Chinese philosophy within health, personal development, business, leadership, relationships and international change. Nicholas has always considered physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing as a cornerstone of personal and international change. As such he has spent 35 years on the frontline as a Practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine and running a busy Complementary Health Centre in Nottingham (UK) before retiring in 2015. Over that time Nick conducted over 50,000 one on one consultations. And as testimony to his commitment and expertise, for the majority of that time he had a waiting list of at least six months to see him as a new client, stretching at some points to an incredible 2-year wait. If you aren't listening while driving, running, walking or anything that will challenge note-taking - you may want to grab your favorite journal and pen and take notes.  Nicholas shares so many great words of wisdom and information we know it will be helpful to jot down some things that speak to you!  If you are on the run, not to worry, all the links to learn more about, connect with, or support Nicholas' work are all below! LOA Uncorked Uplevel Assignment: Be sure to take advantage of the free The Vitality Test!  It's an incredible tool that will provide more insight into yourself and your energy. Practice more kindness to yourself, to others, and to the planet!  Podcast References: The Five Institute Nicholas Haines' website The Art of Kind and Flowing Relationships Book The Story of Boxes, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: The Secret to Human Liberation, Peace and Happiness Book As always, thanks for listening and we look forward to sharing more LOA badassery conversations with you!  Please consider leaving a review and subscribing or dropping us a note to say hi and share your thoughts. www.loauncorked.com  l  loauncorked@gmail.com  I  Insta: @loauncorked  I  FB: loauncorked

In this Exopolitics Today interview, Alex Collier discusses the Andromedan Council and their multifaceted approach to freeing humanity and preventing a galactic tyranny from emerging 350 years in the future. Alex discussed how the Andromedans instigated a broad alliance of extraterrestrial civilizations to intervene on humanity's behalf against negative groups, and how this alliance has led to a global awakening and liberation of our solar system. Alex pointsed out that negative extraterrestrial groups have been largely eliminated as a threat in our solar system, and that we are on a positive timeline where humanity will soon eliminate the last vestiges of negative control groups. Alex has spent 30 years discussing the roles of positive and negative extraterrestrial influences on Earth, and his information has taken on greater relevance today with the unprecedented growth in awareness of humanity's true situation with off-planet visitors and their human minions. Alex Collier's website is http://AlexCollier.org

 Relisten to this show for a reflection on animal liberation, total liberation and the use of both legal and illegal direct actions. Trev and Davita are joined over zoom by Kevin Heller. Kevin used to be part of the support group of the Animal Liberation Front in the Netherlands and Belgium. We discuss the context and strategies of these actions in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, and how antifascism and anarchism connected to these actions.  We would like to hear from you dear listeners! Please fill out our survey so we can serve the animal advocacy movement better with your input: https://forms.gle/YarzhaiYxQvw2NP78  Links: Stop Black Deaths in Custody: https://www.natsils.org.au/blm The duck shooting season starts May 26. Coaltion Against Duck Shooting works to ban this cruel activity. https://www.facebook.com/CADSDuckRescue/ Earlier episode on Consistent Anti-Oppression:  https://www.3cr.org.au/freedomofspecies/episode-201809231300/consistent-anti-oppression Related resource: Vegan Bill of consistent anti-oppression  Music Played: Oi Polloi - On the Streets: https://open.spotify.com/track/0wiOqtRWbeWMgsbIswDJcn Dead Prez - Way of Life: https://open.spotify.com/track/5aFUVtZw6o3iXjk0fj6iRD Caisha Sprout - Self Love: https://open.spotify.com/album/5OpCnR1nBfEw5yk4jqJsmD

"Animal Liberation / Human Liberation" feat. Robert Porzel Prof. Robert Porzel is a national representative for “Physicians against Animal Testing” and founder of the animal rights group “T-Zelle,” which aims to establish intersectional collaboration between social movements. The current network connects about 20 individual groups and organizations in the state of Bremen, Germany. In January of 2019 he was elected as national speaker of the German Greens party for animal policies. Apart from his activism, he is a lecturer and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence at the University of Bremen. Robert & I have known each other since 1987, when we were assigned as roommates during our freshman year at college together. Back then, we often talked for hours and hours, and though many years have passed, we easily found a groove in our conversation here. We covered a lot of topics including the lack of scientific basis for animal testing; alternatives for testing medicines that don't involve animals; the ecological cost of agriculture generally and animal agriculture specifically; the connection between the oppression of animals by humans and the oppression of certain humans by other humans; the cognitive dissonance of loving some animals while eating others; veganic agriculture; health issues related to eating animal products; the many issues with dairy production and consumption; how wild animals are sacrificed for the ranching industry; the importance of stepping outside cultural perspectives; the significance of social media communication; the relationship of capitalism to animal agriculture; reformism vs. abolition in social change; the increasingly serious effects of climate chaos; and what positive things that people can do both for animals and for human survival. Papers by Prof. Porzel: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert-Porzel This episode's introduction music is by Doctor Dreamchip, who you can follow here: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhlcItuC6pmhhemUjhPt1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctordreamchip/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/doctordreamchip RADIO FREE SUNROOT: Podcasting by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume https://radiofreesunroot.com KOLLIBRI'S BLOG & BOOKSHOP: https://macskamoksha.com/ ONE-TIME DONATION: https://paypal.me/kollibri KOLLIBRI'S PATREON: Get access to members-only content https://www.patreon.com/kollibri Support Voices for Nature & Peace by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/voices-for-nature-and-peace This podcast is powered by Pinecast. Try Pinecast for free, forever, no credit card required. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-a50345 for 40% off for 4 months, and support Voices for Nature & Peace.

Each person on this planet is unique and has their own character. "Human Liberation" is a process to continually work on from the depths of our lives and thereby transforming and invigorating our environment around us and rippling out to the rest of the world. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rachel-rizal/support

Season 1, Episode 19. In this episode, we hear from Pinar.  Pinar is a young anti oppression activist based in Toronto. She’s involved with the climate justice movement and a local grassroots animal liberation group. She tells us about some of the challenges of youth activism, from the impact on mental health to ageism. But also, the hopefulness that can be found in activism too. Pinar’s dreams of a better world for everyone motivate her to keep going.You can find Pinar on Instagram: @peacefullypinar  

Season 1, Episode 18. In this episode, we hear from Iye. Iye speaks about the benefits of stepping away from the mainstream vegan movement. Instead, she focuses on local activism in her community, mainly with Plant the Power 614. Iye explains how a focus on the health aspects of veganism and food accessibility doesn’t necessarily mean compromising on animal ethics. She also sees a need for more exposure of the voices of black, indigenous, people of colour, for the movement to really move forward.LINKSIye on Instagram: @iye.loves.lifePlant the Power 614 - https://www.facebook.com/PlantthePower614/ 

In this episode Adrian explores the life of someone who was and is a great friend to him in his travails with anxiety and mental health issues. Although Francis of Assisi lived 800 years ago Adrian shows just how relevant his life is now. Especially when he is stripped of some of the religiosity and hagiographic accretions that have but up around him over the years. The poems come from Adrian's last collection - A Night Sea Journey available on Amazon or at www.adriangrscott.com The Leonardo Boff book mentioned is St.Francis: A Model for Human Liberation. Also check out the new film about his visit to the Sultan - https://www.sultanandthesaintfilm.com 

Amy Tai is a single mom, Suzuki violin teacher, climate activist, peer counseling teacher, settler on Indigenous lands and immigrant to this country. She is fiercely passionate about and committed to human liberation and doing everything possible to avoid climate catastrophe, which she sees as totally interconnected. Ethan and Amy had a deep conversation about how she shows up in the world and her perspectives on love as a mother, activist, counselor and teacher. Contact Amy via Ethan Find Ethan at extremist.love and on Instagram

We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Rev. Dr. Harry Singleton, author of Black Theology and Ideology: Deideological Dimensions in the Theology of James H. Cone, White Religion and Black Humanity, and Divine Revelation and Human Liberation. We talk to him about how he got into theology, the moment when his dream seemed the furthest away, and what exactly is Black Liberation Theology and why is it seen as a threat by the black church. Find Rev. Dr. Harry Singleton online at www.HarrySingleton.com.

Runa Magnusdottir, (a.k.a. Runa Magnus) is the founder and CEO of The Change Makers, co-creator of the #NoMoreBoxes Movement, and the #NoMoreBoxes Breakfast Club TM.  She is the creator and host of The Change Makers Podcast and an inspirational international personal branding speaker, strategist and author from Iceland.  Rúna is a past vice president of The Icelandic Association of Women Business Leaders and she serves on a number of global advisory boards advocating for more balanced gender equality on boards of directors and leadership roles in the world. Rúna played a leading role in Iceland’s National Assembly of 2009 where the nation’s leaders collectively worked together to reinvigorate the country following the economic crash of 2008. Rúna and Nicholas Haines her co-creator of the #NoMoreBoxes Movement and co-author of the book The Story of Boxes, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, are on a mission to liberate over 5 million people from their limiting, isolating and divisive boxes by the end of 2020. Visit www.RunaMagnus.com & www.NoMoreBoxesMovement.com. Make a donation to America Meditating Radio today. CLICK HERE.  Get the new Your Inner World – Guided Meditations by Sister Jenna. Visit our website at www.AmericaMeditating.org.  Download our free Pause for Peace App for Apple.

Join your hostess, Naughtia Black, for an in-depth discussion on why Sexual Liberation is Human Liberation with today's Guest Host Zach the Consent King. We explore shame, pleasure, sex work, polyamory and his top 5 books for ethical non-monogamy. Hit that DOWNLOAD button now to start exploring your dark side...you know you want to. SUPPORT THE SHOW: You can find the books we mention on the show here: More Than Two: http://morethantwo.deviantspodcast.com Love's Not Colorblind: https://amzn.to/2yroI3p Ethical Slut: https://amzn.to/2C7zS0G Opening Up: https://amzn.to/2Oebp1g Game Changer:https://amzn.to/2y7UMKG CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION Find Naughtia Black on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NaughtiaBlack Find Naughtia Black on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naughtiablack/ Visit Deviant's podcast website at http://deviantspodcast.com Email us at naughtiablack69@gmail.com Find Zach the Consent King on Twitter: https://twitter.com/black_sexgeek Visit Zach the Consent King's website: https://www.consentwarrior.com/ JOIN IN THE FUN Apply to be a guest host here: https://goo.gl/forms/uKMPGLeJQ1ZvtUKi2 Sponsor the show! Email me your interest at NaughtiaBlack69@gmail.com MUSIC: The Keeper of Histories by Defy The Mall

On this episode, our guest is Allen Corben, co-chair of NOMAS, the National Organization for Men Against Sexism.  Allen also works as the Assistant Registrar of Fuller Theological Seminary, where he received his Master of Arts in Theology.  We will be talking with Allen today about his work at NOMAS--what it means to be a pro-feminist, anti-racist, LGBTQ affirmative male ally and how it relates to reproductive rights, pornography/sex trafficking, intersectionality, and how we can integrate religion and our spiritual practices and beliefs in a post-2016 election world. During the show Allen shared a lot of resources on a variety of feminist and social justice topics. Here is a partial list that Allen shared that he suggested listeners explore to obtain a better understanding of feminism and some of the issues discussed: Michael Kimmel An article reflecting on Andrea Dworkin's contribution to feminism Carolyn Osiek's Beyond Anger:  On Being a Feminist in the Church Barbara Ehrenreich's books The Bechtel Test for women in movies Michelle Goldberg's NYT Opinion:  "Want More Babies?  You Need Less Patriarchy" An article addressing the "Nordic Model" of sex work Gail Dines' website on pornography Catherine McKinnon's work and research on feminism and on pornography The Sojourners' website and Jim Wallis Robert Jensen's Getting Off:  Pornography and the End of Masculinity Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's In Memory of Her:  A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins Letty Russell's Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective:  A Theology Judith Butler's Gender Trouble:  Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Jill Radford's Femicide:  The Politics of Woman Killing You can contact Allen at info@nomas.org and you can join the NOMAS conversation on Facebook here. --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed website and follow our blog on Medium. Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

In this episode, Tim has a wonderful conversation with Runa Magnus, the creator, and CEO of THE CHANGE MAKERS and co-creator of #nomoreboxes. Listen in and enjoy! OUR CONVERSATION: The transition from politics to entrepreneurship Joining the family business + getting the ‘business bug’ Growing confidence through what she learned Buying + selling the family business Asking the question, “what do I want to do with my life?” Coming to the cross-point of your life when you realize you are not passionate about what you are doing  Looking at the long-term vision and dreaming in order to make a transition Learning to work with and look at the things that are threats to your vision or X-factor About the Change Makers group and #nomoreboxes, she created Changemakers do things that are sustainable, inclusive and magnetic Understanding the many boxes we place ourselves into, many changes and raising our own awareness Organizational health and leadership The #nomoreboxes Breakfast Clubs Opening up space for magic to exist in Runa’s positive habits Drivers that impact our beliefs Runa’s uphill challenge and what she experienced REFERENCES: Awakenings – Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. The Breakfast Club – Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald ABOUT RUNA: Rúna Magnúsdóttir (a.k.a. Rúna Magnús) is the founder and CEO of The Change Makers. An internationally-acclaimed and multi-awarded personal branding expert and best-selling author of Branding Your X Factor. Runa is also the founder of Connected Women, co-founder of BRANDit – the EU awarded Personal Branding Boutique and the co-founder of The Network for Transformational Leaders. Rúna is a sought-after speaker who uses used her shaken but not stirred sense of humour with a good dash of passion to speak, inspire and coach professionals who want to make their mark in the global marketplace and be the change they want to see in their world. She has shared the stage with brands such as; Brené Brown, Seth Godin, Daniel Pink, Mari Smith and Chelsea Clinton.   Rúna loves to engage her audience to look outside their Boxes and brand their uniqueness.   In her upcoming book; The Story Of Boxes, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – The Secret to Human Liberation, Peace and Happiness is the new inspirational book by Rúna and Nicholas Haines. In this easy to digest, insightful book and at times funny book the authors explore and illustrate the positive and destructive consequences of classifying the world into certain camps or Boxes – whether it’s people, ideas, or even objects like underpants....

With over eleven years experience as a movement therapist and physical longevity teacher, Neuro-Linguistic Patterning (NLP) practitioner Benny "The Movement Monk" Fergusson has worked with business and health professionals in the US, Austria, Germany, Singapore, New Zealand, and the UK. Helping them connect with the wisdom deep inside of the body. Grow their body awareness, naturally release physical-mental- emotional blockages, and move with greater freedom & confidence. He also founded and operated Cohesion, one of Australia’s pioneering movement and physical performance facilities from 2008-2014. Benny joins us for a discussion on all things physical, movement, flow, and life enhancement. In this episode he shares how he overcame potentially career ending injury to go on and become one of the most sought after movement and recovery specialists in the country. You can connect with Benny via the following links: http://movementmonk.xyz/ - Website https://www.facebook.com/movementmonk/ - Facebook

Kathryn Lofton is a professor of religious studies and history at Yale University. Her book Consuming Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2017) offers a collection of eleven essays of cultural critique that reflect on the connections between religion, consumer culture, celebrity and the corporation. Her definition of religion is capacious and founded on Durkheim’s understanding of it as a form of social organization that determines who we are. In contemporary culture religion is an attempt to mass-produce relations of value and generate both control and freedom. Applying this definition to popular culture, she examines binge watching, the cubicle of the Action Office of Herman Miller, Purity Balls, Hotel Preston’s innovation in the Spiritual Menu offerings, and the fascination with the Kardashians. In an ethnographic study of the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, she demonstrates how the idea of corporate culture becomes a form of religion. Lofton challenges us to see religion everywhere in our construction of meaning and values. This episode of New Books in American Studies was produced in cooperation with the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Lofton is a professor of religious studies and history at Yale University. Her book Consuming Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2017) offers a collection of eleven essays of cultural critique that reflect on the connections between religion, consumer culture, celebrity and the corporation. Her definition of religion is capacious and founded on Durkheim’s understanding of it as a form of social organization that determines who we are. In contemporary culture religion is an attempt to mass-produce relations of value and generate both control and freedom. Applying this definition to popular culture, she examines binge watching, the cubicle of the Action Office of Herman Miller, Purity Balls, Hotel Preston’s innovation in the Spiritual Menu offerings, and the fascination with the Kardashians. In an ethnographic study of the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, she demonstrates how the idea of corporate culture becomes a form of religion. Lofton challenges us to see religion everywhere in our construction of meaning and values. This episode of New Books in American Studies was produced in cooperation with the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Lofton is a professor of religious studies and history at Yale University. Her book Consuming Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2017) offers a collection of eleven essays of cultural critique that reflect on the connections between religion, consumer culture, celebrity and the corporation. Her definition of religion is capacious and founded on Durkheim’s understanding of it as a form of social organization that determines who we are. In contemporary culture religion is an attempt to mass-produce relations of value and generate both control and freedom. Applying this definition to popular culture, she examines binge watching, the cubicle of the Action Office of Herman Miller, Purity Balls, Hotel Preston’s innovation in the Spiritual Menu offerings, and the fascination with the Kardashians. In an ethnographic study of the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, she demonstrates how the idea of corporate culture becomes a form of religion. Lofton challenges us to see religion everywhere in our construction of meaning and values. This episode of New Books in American Studies was produced in cooperation with the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Lofton is a professor of religious studies and history at Yale University. Her book Consuming Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2017) offers a collection of eleven essays of cultural critique that reflect on the connections between religion, consumer culture, celebrity and the corporation. Her definition of religion is capacious and founded on Durkheim’s understanding of it as a form of social organization that determines who we are. In contemporary culture religion is an attempt to mass-produce relations of value and generate both control and freedom. Applying this definition to popular culture, she examines binge watching, the cubicle of the Action Office of Herman Miller, Purity Balls, Hotel Preston’s innovation in the Spiritual Menu offerings, and the fascination with the Kardashians. In an ethnographic study of the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, she demonstrates how the idea of corporate culture becomes a form of religion. Lofton challenges us to see religion everywhere in our construction of meaning and values. This episode of New Books in American Studies was produced in cooperation with the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Lofton is a professor of religious studies and history at Yale University. Her book Consuming Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2017) offers a collection of eleven essays of cultural critique that reflect on the connections between religion, consumer culture, celebrity and the corporation. Her definition of religion is capacious and founded on Durkheim’s understanding of it as a form of social organization that determines who we are. In contemporary culture religion is an attempt to mass-produce relations of value and generate both control and freedom. Applying this definition to popular culture, she examines binge watching, the cubicle of the Action Office of Herman Miller, Purity Balls, Hotel Preston’s innovation in the Spiritual Menu offerings, and the fascination with the Kardashians. In an ethnographic study of the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, she demonstrates how the idea of corporate culture becomes a form of religion. Lofton challenges us to see religion everywhere in our construction of meaning and values. This episode of New Books in American Studies was produced in cooperation with the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Lofton is a professor of religious studies and history at Yale University. Her book Consuming Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2017) offers a collection of eleven essays of cultural critique that reflect on the connections between religion, consumer culture, celebrity and the corporation. Her definition of religion is capacious and founded on Durkheim’s understanding of it as a form of social organization that determines who we are. In contemporary culture religion is an attempt to mass-produce relations of value and generate both control and freedom. Applying this definition to popular culture, she examines binge watching, the cubicle of the Action Office of Herman Miller, Purity Balls, Hotel Preston’s innovation in the Spiritual Menu offerings, and the fascination with the Kardashians. In an ethnographic study of the Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, she demonstrates how the idea of corporate culture becomes a form of religion. Lofton challenges us to see religion everywhere in our construction of meaning and values. This episode of New Books in American Studies was produced in cooperation with the Society for U.S. Intellectual History. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamin Creed Rowan is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Brigham Young University. His book The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) offers a history of how American intellectuals and planners thought about urban relationships shaping modern cities. He traces how cities' physical landscape changed as ideas about the nature of their social life were reconceived. Beginning with Frederick Law Olmsted in the nineteenth century who expressed anxiety over the erosion of social sympathy, to the progressive era's deployment of the family ideal for urban friendships, to mid-century models that saw these relationships as part of and analogous to an ecological system. Along the way he examines the thought of Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, the journalists at the New Yorker, Rachel Carson and Jane Jacobs and the disruptive force of urban renewal projects. Rowan provides the reader with a new way to value “sociable fellow-feelings” in the midst of the diversity and the rapid change of today's cities. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamin Creed Rowan is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Brigham Young University. His book The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) offers a history of how American intellectuals and planners thought about urban relationships shaping modern cities. He traces how cities’ physical landscape changed as ideas about the nature of their social life were reconceived. Beginning with Frederick Law Olmsted in the nineteenth century who expressed anxiety over the erosion of social sympathy, to the progressive era’s deployment of the family ideal for urban friendships, to mid-century models that saw these relationships as part of and analogous to an ecological system. Along the way he examines the thought of Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, the journalists at the New Yorker, Rachel Carson and Jane Jacobs and the disruptive force of urban renewal projects. Rowan provides the reader with a new way to value “sociable fellow-feelings” in the midst of the diversity and the rapid change of today’s cities. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamin Creed Rowan is an assistant professor of English and American Studies at Brigham Young University. His book The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) offers a history of how American intellectuals and planners thought about urban relationships shaping modern cities. He traces how cities’ physical landscape changed as ideas about the nature of their social life were reconceived. Beginning with Frederick Law Olmsted in the nineteenth century who expressed anxiety over the erosion of social sympathy, to the progressive era’s deployment of the family ideal for urban friendships, to mid-century models that saw these relationships as part of and analogous to an ecological system. Along the way he examines the thought of Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, the journalists at the New Yorker, Rachel Carson and Jane Jacobs and the disruptive force of urban renewal projects. Rowan provides the reader with a new way to value “sociable fellow-feelings” in the midst of the diversity and the rapid change of today’s cities. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jocelyn Olcott is an associate professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Her book International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History (Oxford University Press, 2017) examines the genesis of the UN's 1975 International Women's Year (IWY) and the two-week conference of NGOs and government officials held in Mexico City. From the planning to the gathering itself there were conflicts regarding what were the significant women's issues among the worlds geopolitical divides. Cold War competition colored how delegates, often from the same nation, differed in their expectations. Women from third-world nations expressing concern with the status of subsistence labor, gender violence and racism clashed with women from first-world nation's concern with marketplace and sexual rights. Conservative, liberal, and radical groups competed for attention and the opportunity to influence the official World Plan of Action. In identifying the most pressing concerns global politics and intersectionality experienced by many could not be avoided. Olcott offers insight into the riveting back stories, conflicts, personalities, and enduring legacy of the IWY a pivotal event for what became known as global feminism. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rosalind Rosenberg‘s book Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a multi-layered and rich biography of Pauli Murray, an activist, lawyer and Episcopal priest whose life intersected with the most significant civil and human rights issues of the twentieth century. As a mixed raced woman who felt that her identity was at odds with her body before transsexual had become part of the popular consciousness, Murray's life provides insight into a lived intersectionality of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Beginning with her southern upbringing, we follow Murray through multiple educational, vocational and identity challenges she suffered. In a journey through a dislocated life, she contributed to multiple movements and institutions working with many key social leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Friedan. Appearing as a one-person social movement with a deep religious faith she pursued justice not only for herself but also for others. Rosenberg has provided sympathetic insight into the personal cost that Murray incurred on the road to a more equitable society. Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Leigh Fought is an assistant professor of history at Le Moyne College. Her book Women in the World of Frederick Douglass (Oxford University Press, 2017) offers a detailed and rich portrait of Frederick Douglass' private and public life and his many relationships with women. From his enslaved mother Harriet, Sophia Auld the slave mistress that sparked his interest in reading, to his wife of forty-four years Anna Murray, daughter Rosetta and his white second wife Helen Pitts; these were the women who populated his private world. From each he learned lessons about the workings of race, gender and class in America and prepared him to collaborate with many antislavery women including Julia Griffiths, Maria Weston Chapman and Amy Post. He saw his fight for abolition as part of “woman's cause” bringing him into contact with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Seeing himself as “woman's rights man,” who had attended the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention in 1848, he was perplexed by the betrayal of many woman's rights advocates. Fought fills in much of what is lacking in the female “empty space” in the study of Douglass allowing a fuller understanding of his life and ideas. This is an invaluable contribution to Douglass studies. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is tentatively entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jen Manion is an associate professor of history at Amherst College. Her book Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) offers a detailed examination of how the reform regimen of incarceration developed as the new American nation was experiencing deep social and political transformation. The place of women, African-Americans, immigrants and the poor was recast by new attitudes toward maintaining the social order through the patriarchal family, heterosexual regulation and the property system. Penitentiaries were designed to replace harsh British methods of corporal punishment with republican reform for those accused of property crimes, vagrancy, and public disorder. Reform was imposed through a system of work and submission to disciplinary authority. Within the walls of the prison, women approximated the model of domesticity and submission, while men faced the challenge of demonstrating manly responsibility within a system of denigration. Both men and women charged with crimes resisted the imposition of gender expectations and social hierarchies making their own claims to liberty. Manion not only looks at the gender dynamics but also how race and ethnicity shaped the experience of prisoners as potentially good citizens. By examining the social history of a failed penal system, Liberty's Prisoners offers a window into the gender and race system of the new republic. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James Alexander Dun is an assistant professor of history at Princeton University. His book Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) provides a detailed examination of how the Haitian Revolution shaped Americans view of their own revolution, their relations with both England and France, and left an imprint on the domestic ideological battles between Federalists and Republicans. Philadelphia, a center for antislavery activity and a stage for revolutionary ideas, was actively engaged in trade with the French colony of Saint Domingue. Newspapers, letters, and eyewitness accounts from merchant ships provide a window into how the Haitian Revolution influenced domestic politics. People and ideas from Saint Domingue flooded the city dividing citizens over the meaning of rebellion, revolution, freedom and slavery. Dun has deciphered complex events and shown how Haiti became a symbol of all that was right and wrong in the revolutionary Atlantic. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LaShawn Harris is an assistant professor of history at Michigan State University. Sex Workers, Psychics and Number Runners: Black Women in New York City's Underground Economy, (University of Illinois Press, 2016) offers a colorful look at the lives of black urban women who worked and lived in the space between the legitimate and illegal economy. Her subjects are women not previously considered in histories of the working class: mothers, single ladies, churchwomen, hustlers, and partygoers who worked in the underground economy. Motivated by many factors, they sought economic autonomy, to provide for their families, or individual pleasure and fulfillment. The underground economy offered women a break from middle class respectability and opportunities to forge complex identities of self-sufficiency and an escape from the confines of New Negro womanhood. Working outside the wage system in illegal gaming, sex work or as supernatural consultants, they experienced the dangers and thrill of illicit trade, and challenged black progressive crusaders and promoters of racial uplift. As entrepreneurs and cultural produces, they reinforced and reconfigured the race, gender and class hierarchies of black urban life. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Katherine Turk is assistant professor of history at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her book Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) explores how women tested the boundaries of work place equality following the passing of the Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The under staffed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was given the task of interpreting the ambiguous meaning of sex equality. Thousands of letters flooded the commission appealing to broader notions of fairness and sexual equality. The ambiguity of the law allowed women to assert expansive interpretations to include safer workplaces, higher wages, flexible schedules, equal pay and comparable worth. The EEOC struggled to apply the law as it dealt with sex-specific protective state laws, industry practices and common sense notions of gender. The backlog of claims pressed the EEOC to narrow the definition of sex equality and turned to statistics in developing cases to be tested in the courts. Turk examines multiple legal cases, union and industry conflicts that shaped the limits of sex equality falling short of fundamental change for working class women. Title VII was a powerful weapon that weakened the sex division of labor but was unable to overturn the white, male, breadwinner standard. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellen Fitzpatrick is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. Her book The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency (Harvard University Press, 2016) provides the story of three women, out of over two hundred women, who pursued the presidency. In the nineteenth century, when women were denied the vote, the self-made Victoria Woodhull, a political and religious outsider, ran on a platform of change and reform. In the 1940s, the pragmatic Republican Margaret Chase Smith entered politics as the result of the “widow's mandate.” She stayed in Congress for over two decades and ran for president in 1964. The Democrat Shirley Chisholm took on the double jeopardy of running as the first black woman to seek the presidency in 1972. Her grassroots base included black community activists and feminists. All three women faced structural obstacles rather than lack of grit. Hillary Clinton's presidential run in 2008 would again challenge the American resistance to breaking the highest glass ceiling and demonstrated how much and how little the prospects for a woman president had changed. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ellen Fitzpatrick is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire. Her book The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency (Harvard University Press, 2016) provides the story of three women, out of over two hundred women, who pursued the presidency. In the nineteenth century, when women were denied the vote, the self-made Victoria Woodhull, a political and religious outsider, ran on a platform of change and reform. In the 1940s, the pragmatic Republican Margaret Chase Smith entered politics as the result of the “widow's mandate.” She stayed in Congress for over two decades and ran for president in 1964. The Democrat Shirley Chisholm took on the double jeopardy of running as the first black woman to seek the presidency in 1972. Her grassroots base included black community activists and feminists. All three women faced structural obstacles rather than lack of grit. Hillary Clinton's presidential run in 2008 would again challenge the American resistance to breaking the highest glass ceiling and demonstrated how much and how little the prospects for a woman president had changed. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

April R. Haynes is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth- Century America (University of Chicago Press, 2015) Haynes shows how the campaign against masturbation redefined women's sexuality and reformulated the battle for political rights. Beginning with Sylvester Graham's “Lecture to Mothers” to reform-minded women to the black abolitionists Sarah Mapps Douglas's sex education lectures to African American women, masturbation became a topic with both gender and racial import. After a long history of neglect, it became tied to issues of purity, virtue and self-government. Through women reformers the proscriptions against masturbation were popularized and institutionalized. Haynes sheds light on the continued attention given to masturbation in American culture and the women's movement, demonstrating its political significance. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

April R. Haynes is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth- Century America (University of Chicago Press, 2015) Haynes shows how the campaign against masturbation redefined women's sexuality and reformulated the battle for political rights. Beginning with Sylvester Graham's “Lecture to Mothers” to reform-minded women to the black abolitionists Sarah Mapps Douglas's sex education lectures to African American women, masturbation became a topic with both gender and racial import. After a long history of neglect, it became tied to issues of purity, virtue and self-government. Through women reformers the proscriptions against masturbation were popularized and institutionalized. Haynes sheds light on the continued attention given to masturbation in American culture and the women's movement, demonstrating its political significance. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cassandra A. Good is the Associate Editor of the Papers of James Monroe at the University of Mary Washington. Her book Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic (Oxford University Press, 2015) offers a historical examination of the cross-gender friendships that formed against great social odds and popular opinion that held that these relationships were highly irregular and impossible to maintain chaste. Beginning with the relationships of Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson; Eloise Richards Payne and William Ellery Channing; Charles Greely Loring and Mary Pierce and their elite circle, Good explores the depth of feelings, the language and tokens of love, issues of propriety, and the social and political risks of cross-gender friendship. These complicated relationships embodied the essential republican values of equality, freedom, choice, and virtue and challenged marriage as the ultimate human connection. Through her historical work, Good offers an opportunity to rethink the ways cross-gender friendships remain problematic. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathon S. Kahn is an associate professor of religion at Vassar College. He is co-editor with Vincent W. Lloyd of a collection of essays entitled Race and Secularism in America (Columbia University Press, 2016). Eleven scholars forward the argument that secularism in America has been a project that manages, or excludes, difference by control over both religion and race. The introduction demonstrates how Martin Luther King Jr., both a religious and black leader, was stripped of both his race and his religion to represent a homogenous white secularism. Secularism is dependent on managing not just the intertwined racial and religious discourse but the practices and bodies of ordinary people. Secularism thus becomes white and springs from a managed Protestantism. The abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century and the Civil Rights movement in the twentieth are historical examples of resistance to a secularist white consensus. The volume explores the many ways religion and race are circumscribed, how they are entwined, and the ways their management has been refused. In the process, the authors recover the transformative potential of racial and religious discourse in imagining worlds of possibilities and justice. Lilian Calles Barger is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation.

Peter L. Laurence is an associate professor of urban design, history and theory at Clemson University School of Architecture. His book Becoming Jane Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) is an intellectual biography of the architecture critic and neo-functionist Jane Jacobs and how she came to write the 1961 classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Beginning with Jacobs's arrival in New York City in 1934 with only a high school diploma and writing aspirations Laurence follows her career to the pages of Architectural Forum under the editorial direction of Douglas Haskell. At the magazine she honed her critical skills and was exposed to the latest in urban design and renewal working with leading architects and planners. Laurence argues that there are persistent myths about Jacobs, including her status as a housewife and an amateur urban activist who surprisingly wrote a classic, or a genius. Rather, Jacobs transformed herself into a sophisticated critic influenced by the ideas of a wide circle of intellectuals and wrote a great deal before and after her most well known work. Death and Life of Great American Cities synthesized many previous ideas and proposed a new way to think about cities that considered the social networks and perspective of the person on the street rather than top-down planning that disregarded the human element for efficiency and form. Her vision for the city was of a living system with flexibility, creativity, and diversity offering a sense of connection by mixing the old and the new. Laurence offers not only the evolution of Jacobs's ideas but also the ways mid-century intellectuals conceived of the cities we now live in. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Peter L. Laurence is an associate professor of urban design, history and theory at Clemson University School of Architecture. His book Becoming Jane Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) is an intellectual biography of the architecture critic and neo-functionist Jane Jacobs and how she came to write the 1961 classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Beginning with Jacobs's arrival in New York City in 1934 with only a high school diploma and writing aspirations Laurence follows her career to the pages of Architectural Forum under the editorial direction of Douglas Haskell. At the magazine she honed her critical skills and was exposed to the latest in urban design and renewal working with leading architects and planners. Laurence argues that there are persistent myths about Jacobs, including her status as a housewife and an amateur urban activist who surprisingly wrote a classic, or a genius. Rather, Jacobs transformed herself into a sophisticated critic influenced by the ideas of a wide circle of intellectuals and wrote a great deal before and after her most well known work. Death and Life of Great American Cities synthesized many previous ideas and proposed a new way to think about cities that considered the social networks and perspective of the person on the street rather than top-down planning that disregarded the human element for efficiency and form. Her vision for the city was of a living system with flexibility, creativity, and diversity offering a sense of connection by mixing the old and the new. Laurence offers not only the evolution of Jacobs's ideas but also the ways mid-century intellectuals conceived of the cities we now live in. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jefferson Cowie is the James G. Stahlman professor of history at Vanderbilt University. His book The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016) interprets the New Deal as a massive but unstable experiment from the main of American political culture. Against arguments that the New Deal was the product of the American penchant for reform, Cowie asserts that it was a remarkable historical detour. The Great Depression and WWII were specific historical circumstances that wrought a short-lived effort for central government intervention in securing collective economic rights. Unions flourished, industrial workers gained job security and good wages, and the country enjoyed a relative amount of political cohesion. Multiple legislative measures and the growth of unions offered a countervailing power against corporate wealth accumulation and promised a bright economic future. Several enduring fissures in political culture would all but undo the New Deal after the 1970s. The long tensions over immigration, religious and racial hostility, the frailty of unions, and the ideology of Jeffersonian individualism remained and assured that the new interventionist role for the state would not last. By examining the birth of New Deal and its decline, Cowie locates a legacy of individual rights that stood against its long-term viability. As the central government has continued to expand under free market ideology, collective initiatives are being led at the local and state level by a cross-class neo-progressivism organizing labor and advocating for immigrants and other minorities. While the New Deal gave way to free market ideology, the future may lie in a new imaginary rising from below. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel K. Williams is an associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. His book, Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade (Oxford University Press, 2016) offers the origins of the pro-life movement not as reactionary and anti-feminist, but rather as a New Deal-inspired crusade for human rights and part of a progressive Catholic social agenda. Pro-lifers saw themselves as crusaders for the “right to life” appealing to natural law and the constitution of the United States. In the 1930s they stood against the utilitarian views of abortion liberalization promoted by secular doctors. After World War II Catholic doctors and lawyers were equating abortion with the holocaust and arguing for the fetus as protected by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. In the early 1960s, the debate over abortion moved to legislative and constitutional battles. Restrictive state laws began to crumble and post-Vatican Catholic opposition to abortion continued to erode among the laity. The decade ended with a restructuring of the movement as it gained allies among young progressives, anti-war activists, Protestants and evangelicals. Pro-life women, expressing a feminism of difference, became visible in the leadership ranks in what had been a virtually an all-male public campaign. The pro-life movement's legislative victories were short term. Roe v. Wade and change in public opinion interrupted the ascendancy of the pro-life movement and its bipartisan identity to become part of a larger cultural battle. Williams offers an important contribution by highlighting the progressive origins of the pro-life movement before it became a conservative evangelical cause and an issue that continues to divide the nation. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel K. Williams is an associate professor of history at the University of West Georgia. His book, Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade (Oxford University Press, 2016) offers the origins of the pro-life movement not as reactionary and anti-feminist, but rather as a New Deal-inspired crusade for human rights and part of a progressive Catholic social agenda. Pro-lifers saw themselves as crusaders for the “right to life” appealing to natural law and the constitution of the United States. In the 1930s they stood against the utilitarian views of abortion liberalization promoted by secular doctors. After World War II Catholic doctors and lawyers were equating abortion with the holocaust and arguing for the fetus as protected by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. In the early 1960s, the debate over abortion moved to legislative and constitutional battles. Restrictive state laws began to crumble and post-Vatican Catholic opposition to abortion continued to erode among the laity. The decade ended with a restructuring of the movement as it gained allies among young progressives, anti-war activists, Protestants and evangelicals. Pro-life women, expressing a feminism of difference, became visible in the leadership ranks in what had been a virtually an all-male public campaign. The pro-life movement's legislative victories were short term. Roe v. Wade and change in public opinion interrupted the ascendancy of the pro-life movement and its bipartisan identity to become part of a larger cultural battle. Williams offers an important contribution by highlighting the progressive origins of the pro-life movement before it became a conservative evangelical cause and an issue that continues to divide the nation. Lilian Calles Barger, www.lilianbarger.com, is a cultural, intellectual and gender historian. Her current book project is entitled The World Come of Age: Religion, Intellectuals and the Challenge of Human Liberation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices