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The Scarlet Frequency

The Scarlet Frequency

By: The Red Tent Collective
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 Welcome to The Scarlet Frequency — the sonic pulse of The Red Tent Collective. Here, we speak in spells and syllables, through poems that breathe and essays that burn. Each episode is a reclamation: voiced articles that vibrate with truth, recordings from live conversations on X Spaces, and dialogues with thinkers who refuse the silence. This is not another algorithm-fed podcast. It’s a listening ritual. A gathering for women who crave depth over dopamine, and who know that liberation begins with language — raw, embodied, and unfiltered.The Red Tent Collective Social Sciences
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  • N.A.A. from the Archives: Save Women's Sports with Coach Linda Blade, Marshi Smith, and Guests!

    N.A.A. from the Archives: Save Women's Sports with Coach Linda Blade, Marshi Smith, and Guests!
    Jan 30 2026
    This archival episode of North American Angst turns its focus to another arena where women are being told to surrender quietly: sport.Peeja, Emmi, and Carol bring together athletes and advocates who have spent their lives inside competitive sport, only to watch policies reshape women’s categories in ways they say undermine fairness and opportunity. Coach and author Linda Blade and former NCAA champion swimmer Marshi Smith speak candidly about the moment each realized that women’s competition was being redefined without meaningful debate, and what it means for girls now coming up through the system.What makes this conversation land is not ideology but experience. Stories surface of young athletes losing podium places, scholarships, and confidence. Coaches speak privately while fearing professional consequences. Parents worry about daughters competing in environments they feel are no longer fair. Meanwhile, women who raise concerns face backlash while institutions insist the changes are necessary and settled.The discussion moves beyond wins and losses to what sport actually builds. Both Blade and Smith describe how athletics shaped their own lives, opening doors to education, careers, and personal confidence. For them, protecting women’s sport is not nostalgia or exclusion. It is about preserving a pathway that has allowed generations of women to compete, grow, and succeed on equal terms.The episode also explores the growing legal and political pushback now unfolding across North America. Lawsuits against governing bodies, proposed legislation, and grassroots organizing are beginning to challenge policies that once seemed untouchable. Women who once spoke only in private are now stepping forward publicly, often at personal cost.Throughout the conversation, one theme repeats: silence was expected. Resistance was not.Blade and Smith describe a movement slowly gaining confidence as more athletes, parents, and supporters decide they are no longer willing to accept policies they believe harm female competitors. They argue that meaningful change will come not from outrage alone, but from sustained public pressure, legal action, and everyday people refusing to look away.This episode ultimately serves as both record and rallying point. It captures a moment when women in sport are deciding whether to stand down or stand firm.And it leaves listeners with a question that extends well beyond athletics: when fairness becomes negotiable, who pays the price?Nothing in this conversation asks for anger alone.It asks for courage.Because the girls competing now do not get to choose the policies shaping their futures.The responsibility to change them falls to everyone watching from the outside.Check out Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport by Linda BladeLearn more about ICONSICONS on XFollow Coach Blade on XFollow Marshi Smith on XThe tent remains open. The fire does not go out.Truth survives because women carry it.Sign up to The Quill and get the latest from The Red Tent Collective.Have tech skills? Need tech skills? Become an official member.
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    1 hr and 59 mins
  • N.A.A. from the Archives: Heather Mason & Amie Ichikawa on Keeping Prisons Single Sex #KPSS

    N.A.A. from the Archives: Heather Mason & Amie Ichikawa on Keeping Prisons Single Sex #KPSS
    Jan 19 2026
    This archival episode of North American Angst opens a door most people never look behind.Peeja & Carol, hosts of N.A.A., bring together women who have lived the reality of incarceration and emerged determined to speak. Heather Mason and Amy Ichikawa, both formerly imprisoned, recount what happens inside women’s prisons when policy abandons biological reality. Their testimony moves from Canada to the United States, tracing how institutional language has been used to justify the placement of male offenders into female facilities, often without consent, warning, or recourse for the women already there.What makes this episode devastating is not theory but specificity. Mothers describe fear inside mother and child units. Women recount locking themselves in rooms to avoid harassment or assault. Guards are disciplined for objecting to strip searches of male inmates. Complaints vanish. Charges are not laid. Survival becomes a strategy of silence. The system functions not because it protects women, but because it exhausts them.This episode stands as documentation. It preserves voices that institutions prefer remain unheard. And it makes one thing unmistakably clear: when truth is buried, women are expected to absorb the cost.Heather Mason speaks with the clarity of someone who has seen the machinery from the inside. Formerly incarcerated at Grand Valley Institution for Women, she has since become one of the most consistent advocates for sex-segregated prisons in Canada. Her work includes organizing nationwide protests, documenting institutional failures, and giving voice to women who cannot safely speak for themselves. She understands not only the policy language, but how it plays out on the ground, day after day, inside prison walls.Amy Ichikawa brings a parallel authority shaped by five years in a California state prison and subsequent advocacy in the United States. Her work began when women inside reached out in fear as new policies took effect. She now acts as a point of contact, connector, and defender for incarcerated women navigating assaults, retaliation, and bureaucratic stonewalling. Her involvement in documentary work with the Independent Women’s Forum has helped surface stories that would otherwise remain hidden.Together, Heather and Amy offer something rare: cross-border clarity. Their accounts differ in jurisdiction but align in outcome. When women’s safety is treated as negotiable, harm follows predictably.Nothing in this episode asks for outrage alone.It asks for responsibility.These women cannot protest. They cannot speak freely. They cannot risk being labeled difficult, hateful, or non-compliant. That burden falls to those on the outside.Take the next step:Follow Heather on XFollow caWsbar on XHistory in the Making: Follow caWsbar's Charter ChallengeFollow Amie Ichikawa on XVisit Women II WomenSupport Women II Women's sponsorship of SB 311The tent remains open.The fire does not go out.Truth survives because women carry it.Sign up to The Quill and get the latest from The Red Tent Collective.Have tech skills? Need tech skills? Become an official member.
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    2 hrs and 5 mins
  • N.A.A. from the Archives: Lisa Bildy on Justice, Gender and Speech in Canada

    N.A.A. from the Archives: Lisa Bildy on Justice, Gender and Speech in Canada
    Jan 7 2026
    This episode is a reckoning.In a raw, unflinching conversation, the ladies of North American Angst sit down with Lisa Bildy, a Canadian constitutional lawyer and Executive Director of the Free Speech Union Canada, to confront the slow erosion of free expression across professional life in Canada. What begins as her personal story — a trial lawyer turned homeschooling mother turned reluctant dissident — unfolds into a chilling map of how ideological enforcement has crept into law societies, professional regulators, universities, healthcare, education, and beyond.Lisa walks us through the landmark battles she’s fought: from helping dismantle compelled DEI oaths within the legal profession, to defending nurse and women’s rights advocate Amy Hamm against a 22-day tribunal for gender-critical speech expressed entirely outside her workplace. Again and again, we hear the same pattern: regulators asserting authority over private speech, conscience, and belief — backed by human rights frameworks that now punish dissent rather than protect liberty.This episode is not despair — it’s a warning and a call to arms. A reminder that history moves in cycles, that silence is never neutral, and that freedom only survives when ordinary people are willing to stand visibly, imperfectly, and together.Lisa is not a commentator. She is a front-line defender.She has:Successfully helped dismantle compelled ideological pledges within Canada’s legal professionDefended professionals targeted by regulators for lawful, off-duty speechFought precedent-setting cases involving gender-critical beliefs, free expression, and conscience rightsHelped launch Free Speech Union Canada, part of an international network pushing back against global speech suppressionHer authority comes not from theory, but from consequence. She knows what it costs — professionally, socially, emotionally — to refuse ideological compliance. And she shows up anyway.When Lisa says, “The debate didn’t end — it never began,” she isn’t speculating. She’s describing the machinery she’s seen from the inside.This episode makes one thing unmistakably clear:Freedom does not disappear overnight.It disappears case by case, silence by silence, professional by professional.Follow and connect with Lisa on X — support the work of Free Speech Union Canada and those defending civil liberties on the ground.Follow caWsbar's Charter Challenge⁠ — the biggest case on the books in Canada. Follow Carol, Emmi Pinkhurst, and Peeja, North American Angst Hosts, on XThe fire is lit. Your voice belongs here.Join The Red Tent Collective; let's light up the world.Read this episode's blog article.
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    2 hrs
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