Patriarchy and Abortion
Michelle is a global gender scholar with a PhD in women’s and gender studies and specializations in gender-based violence, militarism, girls studies and peace studies. She helps feminists shed the fear that results in imposter syndrome, procrastination, self-doubt and the paralysis of fitting into constraining gender norms.
Visit her website to learn more at: https://michellemorkert.com/
Show Notes:
1:55 Michelle’s Introduction
2:11 Joyful Marketing
3:43 “My research helps me coach, my coaching helps me research”
4:15 “none of us are immune from patriarchal structures”
6:57 “we think we have to earn approval by working really hard… we look outside ourselves for approval”
7:29 “People don’t tell us, the most perfect thing you can do is be you”
9:49 “When we feel something that seems outside of that box, or we experience something that’s outside of that box of what should be…”
11:24 “we start with what’s present for us”
12:14 “What about it is liberating? What about it pisses us off?”
12:47 “... but then I remember that the individual experience is the revolution”
13:36 Syesha: https://www.instagram.com/syesha
14:45 “It’s overwhelming because it is big… it can be huge and it can be individual all at the same time”
16:21 “Patriarchy is a system that promotes and protects male power”
What have we learned about- caretaking, self-sacrificing, motherhood, gender, looks, authority
You don’t know what you’re doing, and that’s okay
31:30 “Who said? And is that true for me?”
32:12 “We’ve been told we can’t trust our bodies?”
32:58 “Oftentimes that shame that we have reveals that we really care about something, something really important to us”
We can feel this- the more you feel, the more you feel
36:40 “we didn’t come up with these ideas, we carry them”
38:22 @michelle_morkert_coaching
