ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Each week we will explore feminism in all facets of life, from its roots to its present-day perceptions. My goal is to create a community of feminists that are redefining beauty culture, learning to use their voices, love themselves and striving to empower the next generation of women. Stark Conversations launches January 11, 2023. To learn more about Heather and engage in the conversation, visit www.heatherstark.me
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Update frequency:
every 12 days
Average audio length:
40 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
54 episodes
since Jan. 1, 2018
episodic
explicit content
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In today's episode, I am talking to Alani Bankhead. Alani knows something about feminism because she has spent the last 20 years as a woman in a predominantly male profession, hunting spies, terrorists, and child sex traffickers. She was even assigned to be the senior bodyguard to a top Pentagon of…
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Today, I am talking to the former Chair of New Zealand's Labour Women's Caucus, Sarah Pallett. Sarah reached out to me after she read an article I published in the HuffPost. When she introduced herself, I almost fell out of my chair.
I had read about Sarah, I knew her name, and I knew she served u…
Today, I am talking to the former Chair of New Zealand's Labour Women's Caucus, Sarah Pallett. Sarah reached out to me after she read an article I published in the HuffPost. When she introduced herself, I almost fell out of my chair.
I had read about Sarah, I knew her name, and I knew she served u…
In this episode, I am talking to Samantha Martin, founder of the Femmish organization. Samanatha uses research to bring awareness around femme phobia- the systematic devaluing of femininity that people engage in when they police feminine qualities in others. This is an excellent conversation about …
Yes, October and Spooks have passed, but this conversation was too good to not visit again!
Oh Friends,
This episode is a good one. It conjures up women dancing around bonfires, chanting, mixing positions, invoking curses and being gagged, bound, and hung.
The Salem Witch Trials.
I wante…
Trigger warning: Sexual and gender based violence
Today, I am discussing a recent paper published by Dr. Treena Orchard that explores the subjectivity of safety on one college campus. According to Dr. Orchard's research: 20 to 43% of women and 3 to 29% of men attending American universities have b…
Today, on Stark Conversations, I discuss the devaluing of girls and women in the legal system with Jennifer Toon, the Project Director for Lioness Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance. A nonprofit led by formerly incarcerated women who envision a society where all women are spiritually, emotionally, m…
Today, I am talking with writer Christine Morrison. After working for Olay and Calvin Klein, Christine has become a writer with a mission and purpose to focus on fashion as it relates to our identity and well-being. She writes that she is "committed to exploring and exposing the grey areas tha…
Hello Friends,
In Part 2 of Sexual Harassment, I take you with me as I reclaim my walks on the beach. This episode is a series of recordings I took when I decided it was time for me to go back to where the harassment occurred. I attempted to be candid and genuine in my thoughts and emotions. This i…
Hello Friends,
Trigger warning: this episode is about sexual harassment.
This episode is a two-parter and a bit different than the others. This is just me talking about an incident of sexual harassment that occurred not too long ago that has left me with many thoughts, revelations, and emot…
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