Sept. 13, 2023

No Country For Women

No Country For Women

For most of us who end up in feminism, who end up actively fighting for women’s rights - the consciousness that brought us here - came at a steep price.
Some of us got shocked into it, some of us went through a series of painful awakenings that force...

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For most of us who end up in feminism, who end up actively fighting for women’s rights - the consciousness that brought us here - came at a steep price.

Some of us got shocked into it, some of us went through a series of painful awakenings that forced us to search for an explanation, a framework by which to analyze the violations we had been subjected to or witnessed.

Our guest on this episode, Brazilian journalist Andreia Nobre, tells the story of her own harrowing awakenings, starting at the age of 8, that put her on a lifelong quest to make sense of the lack of safety, autonomy, and dignity she experienced as a girl, as a young woman, as a mother - in Brazil, in Portugal, and in the UK.

A passionate journalist and researcher, Andreia channeled her journey from silenced victim to outspoken survivor to wide awake activist, to report on the very dire reality women of the world still face - in the West, in so-called developing countries, and around the globe.

Report: Women’s Sex-Based Oppression in the 21st Century

Credits

Host: Elle Kamihira

Produced by Elle Kamihira

Audio Engineering by Jason Sheesley at Abridged Audio

Cover Art by Bee Johnson

Music by Beware of Darkness 

Andreia Nobre Profile Photo

Andreia Nobre

Journalist & Author

Andreia Nobre is a Brazilian journalist published in outlets like 4W Feminist News, Huffington Post, Uncommon Ground, QG Feminista and author of the The Grumpy Guide to Radical Feminism and the Grumpy Guide series. She has been an activist for women’s rights since 2012, with a particular focus on advocating for the end of obstetric violence.

At the start of Covid lockdowns, Andreia began tracking, categorizing and analyzing the variety of means by which women are oppressed around the world - as reported in international news in the last decade - which resulted in a 400-page report titled Women’s Sex-Based Oppression in the 21st Century.