The New Feminist

Mar 14 2025 36 ep. 47 mins 31
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Jill Sorensen gives the scoop on common sense feminism from a new perspective. Featuring in-depth interviews and satirical take-downs of pop culture, The New Feminist podcast explores women's issues and gender inequality with humor and sincerity. Learn more at thenewfeminist.net.

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312. The Fight to Stop Selling Porn to Minors

Mar 14 2025 45 mins  
A disturbing new study published in The New York Times revealed that 2/3 of college age girls reported being extreme choked during sex, sometimes to the point of passing out. 40% of the girls said the first time it happened was as early as age 12 to 17. The porn industry’s uncontrolled mass promotion of girls being abused has been our kids' sex-ed for years - and parents are

310. Sisterhood Across Conflict

Nov 22 2024 55 mins  
Heidi Basch-Harod, an Israeli American woman, is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and executive director of Women's Voices Now, and Nada Higuera is one of eight daughters born to Palestinian parents, now a Palestinian-American and attorney. After October 7th, they met in an interfaith Zoom meeting, and struck up a close bond and friendship. Pain, hatred and fear gave way to

309. A Powerhouse for Change

Sep 20 2024 38 mins  
Shaynna Blaze is an award-winning interior designer, author, entrepreneur, a producer, musician, and Australian television personality known for the long running series The Block and Selling Houses… And if this wasn’t enough she is also the winner of Celebrity Apprentice Australia 2021. Shaynna is also a passionate advocate for the safety of women, and a social justice campaig

308. Behind the Rage: Inside the Minds of Domestic Abusers

Oct 30 2023 64 mins  
On December 7th The New Feminist joins forces with Deeyah Khan, Women’s Voices Now, Knock Out Abuse West and NYT best selling author and advocate Leslie Morgan Steiner for a special screening of Behind the Rage followed by a panel with the men and women who are fighting to end relationship abuse. Links and info about the event can be found on our website thenewfeminist.net.

307. Irreverent Enlightenment (with Karen Duffy)

Aug 04 2023 47 mins  
From becoming an iconic MTV VJ, starring in Dumb and Dumber, writing a New York Times Best selling book, to being diagnosed with a life threatening disease today’s guest, my friend Karen Duffy has done it all and has wisdom and positivity in spades! With her son Jack preparing to go off to college she wrote her new book WISE UP: Irreverent Enlightenment from a Mother who has been

306. From Victims to Suspects (with Rachel de Leon)

Jun 23 2023 31 mins  
I saw this fantastic documentary at the Sundance Film festival called Victims/Suspects. The film follows Rachel de Leon, an investigative journalist at The Center for Investigative Reporting, and her incredible work to uncover a disturbing pattern in the US: A surprising number of legal cases involving young women who report their rape to the police, get charged with false reportin

305. No Filter (with Paulina Porizkova)

May 19 2023 60 mins  
Our guest today, super model and author Paulina Porizkova is one of the most visible women in the world, yet the last two years she has garnered a huge Instagram following sharing how invisible she feels as a middle aged woman. Something so many women relate to in youth obsessed America. Decades long ageism against women in advertisement and films has given us all a warped view of

304. Trafficked in Porn at 14: Jewell Baraka on Healing and Advocacy

Mar 24 2023 46 mins  
Our guest today Jewell Baraka, is brave. She has survived horrors that are hard to imagine. Her father, a deeply religious man, was popular in his community in Portland, yet behind closed doors he was a sociopathic monster. When Jewell was only five years old, he started sexually abusing her. By the time she was eleven, he trafficked his own daughter in to prostitution and porn, se

303. The Fight to End Sexual Exploitation (with Benji Nolot)

Mar 17 2023 57 mins  
Benji Nolot might just be the most effective arch nemesis online pornography has. He is the President of Exodus Cry, an organization that works to abolish sex trafficking and sexual exploitation while assisting and empowering its victims. They have led a tireless and successful campaign to reveal the horrendous abuses and misconceptions about the porn industry and together with oth

302. From Brothel Owner to Feminist (with Andrea Heinz)

Mar 10 2023 63 mins  
At 22 years old, Andrea Heinz found herself $60,000 in debt from a string of abusive relationships and entered into the commercial sex industry in Canada. She worked in prostitution for seven years and had over 4000 customer sessions. She even opened a brothel herself, hoping that the women she hired would suffer less abuse, but to no avail. Barely surviving the industry herself, s