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Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, humankind would have followed different hero myths and guiding stories - stories that value caretaking, champion compassion, and elevate communication over vengeance and violence. Cassandra Speaks is about the stories we tell and how those stories become the culture. It’s about the stories we still blindly cling to, and the ones that cling to us: the origin tales, the guiding myths, the religious parables, the literature and films and fairy tales passed down....

The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia, one of the most violent gangs in the United States. Born in the prisons of California in the late 1960s, Nuestra Familia expanded to control drug trafficking and extortion operations throughout the northern half of the state and left a trail of bodies in its wake.

Why do women keep themselves small and quiet? Why do they hold back professionally and personally? What fuels the uncertainty and lack of confidence so many women often feel? In this paradigm-shifting book, leading feminist thinker Bethany Webster identifies the source of women’s trauma. She calls it the Mother Wound - the systemic disenfranchisement of women by the patriarchy - and reveals how this cycle is perpetuated by wounded mothers who unconsciously pass on damaging beliefs and behaviors to their daughters.

What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? What is it like to start over from nothing? To answer these questions Sabine Heinlein followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of Angel Ramos and his friends Bruce and Adam - three men convicted of some of society's most heinous crimes - as they return to the free world.

Forged in the stress of early motherhood, The Mother Artist explores the fraught yet generative ties between caregiving and creative practice. As a young mother working at a museum, essayist Catherine Ricketts began asking questions about the making of motherhood and the making of art. Now, with incantatory prose and an intuitive gaze, she twines intimate meditations on parenthood with studies of the work and lives of painters, writers, dancers, musicians, and other creatives.

You think they're cheating - we'll help you find out for real! Whether we sting 'em on SnapChat or set up a War of the Roses, we'll get to the bottom of it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth century combined. More girls are killed in this routine 'gendercide' in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the twentieth century.

Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman, American moves of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three Men and a Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future and Trading Places; all a teenager needs to know - in Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Say Anything, The Breakfast Club and Mystic Pizza.

Mother’s Day is a special time to say thank you to all the mothers all over the world who take care of us and love us. Beautiful Mother's Day Quotes has over 500 brand-new, kind, and sweet quotes that you can use to tell your mom just how much she means to you. Every quote is written with love and meant to make her feel happy and appreciated. Mother’s Day is only one day, but moms make our lives better every day. That’s why it’s important to tell them how special they are whenever we can.

In this taut inquiry, Posner digs deep into the radical history of the religious right to reveal how issues of race and xenophobia have always been at the movement’s core, and how religion often cloaked anxieties about perceived threats to a white, Christian America. Fueled by an antidemocratic impulse, and united by this narrative of reverse victimization, the religious right and the alt-right support a common agenda.

When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at 35, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the 20th-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt’s lynching at the hands of vengeful White men in his Southern town.

Meeting in racial affinity groups is a common practice in anti-racist, social justice, diversity, and similar educational endeavors. These groups provide a structured space in which participants can explore how racism personally impacts them, process specific experiences of racism, receive validation and support from their peers, heal, and strategize next steps for challenging racism. In A Space for Us, Michelle Cassandra Johnson brings her over twenty years of experience leading dismantling-racism work to provide the first affinity-group guide made for BIPOC communities.

In June 2022, at the Black Men’s Forum (BMF), we went to the source and provided a platform for African American men and a few African American male teenagers to speak their truths in answering 58 questions. All information shared is a part of history and will be passed onto the next generation to build upon society and learn about the strengths and hindrances affecting African-American boys.

The Cassandra Voices podcast is an Irish home for independent journalism with a global perspective. The prophetess Cassandra advised her fellow Trojans to reject the horse the Greeks had seemingly left behind as a gift, but was ignored. This podcast provides cautionary tales and inspiring narratives to illuminate our own troubled times. Host: Cassandra Voices Music: Loafing Heroes Produced by Massimiliano Galli

The Cassandra Files: Exploring the Fringes of Humanity's Survival.New episodes released weekly, Fridays at 6pm EST.In a world increasingly susceptible to unforeseen threats, The Cassandra Files offers a beacon of clarity and critical analysis. We move beyond fear-mongering narratives, wielding the tools of political science to dissect complex issues that hold the potential to shape our future.Join us as we explore:The fault lines of international treaties: We delve into the cracks and potential shifts in global agreements that could significantly impact the future.The ethical quagmire of ...

For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be.

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A journey through the mind” podcast. A podcast taking the journey through the mind with your hosts Claudia and Cassandra. Raising awareness on mental health and understanding how the brain works,to take control of our thoughts and emotions, instead of them controlling us. With some fun facts and experiences too about life down south in sunny South AfricaA PAMA MEDIA original and exclusive!

Be With Cassandra serves as an emergent space and place to experiment with change and belonging while being held by nature. Each episode serves as an invitation to dig in, to imagine new possibilities, to become unstuck, to play, to dance with the shadows, to share with generosity. Join Cassandra in this experiment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to YOU with Intention, a place that's all about helping you reclaim your power as the conscious creator of your life whether it's manifesting your big juicy dreams or designing your day to day for your highest joy. YOU with Intention is here to support and inspire you with both the stories and wisdom from our amazing guests and how they are living there most intentional life as well as tips and tricks from your host and spiritual coach, Cassandra Bodzak. Your host, Cassandra Bodzak is an actress, thought leader, best-selling author and sought after on-camera personality and speaker in ...