How is women's equality connected to the health of a nation? Author of @doublexeconomy Linda Scott talks with Elle @J42doc about all the ways that sex inequality is a recipe for disaster, and how empowering women is always going to result in a more stable, prosperous economy. More truth bombs at link in bio.

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We know there is an effort afoot in the US to force women back into the domestic sphere, but do the proponents of this plan grasp what they're wishing for? Expert on women's economy and author of @doublexeconomy Linda Scott doesn't think so. Find our conversation at link in bio.

New episode alert 🚨 Standing Up To The Brotherhood No matter how much the “family values” crowd wishes for women to “return home where they belong”, Linda Scott, renown expert on women’s economy and author of @doublexeconomy, knows women’s economic empowerment has traversed past the point of no return. It is - in every way - too late. It is too late to force women out of the market economy and back into the private, domestic sphere - without widespread damage to all of society. A fact that is not stopping patriarchs from trying to shove women backwards. In founding the concept of The Double X Economy, Linda revealed how women have been economically subjugated across the world and throughout history, demonstrating through extensive data and on-the-ground research, how women have been systematically excluded from the entire financial order. Linda opens our eyes to the economic injustices women are subjected to around the globe, from corporate offices to rural farms, far beyond being denied paid work or being exploited for unpaid labor. In this episode, Elle talks to Linda about patriarchy’s most powerful and enduring tool used to keep women out of power and away from agency - economic exclusion - and why it is that gender inequality is such a bad economic strategy, and gender equality is a perfect recipe for success - regardless of culture. We talk about the far-reaching consequences of shutting women out, as well as the equally far-reaching positive impacts of lifting the constraints on women, also about our Chimpanzee-Bonobo deep past, our very dark present, and the exciting new project Linda is working on. subjecttopower.com/standing-…

This is the inevitable outcome of making machines out of women, and human babies into products they produce on order. Commodification of this deeply human act makes us all into things to buy and sell, and life itself becomes dramatically devalued.

Looking forward to reading and if you want to hear @lexington1920 speak about the alarming spread of surrogacy, go listen to our latest episode The Empathy Trap, link in bio.

There is a lot that goes into the recruitment of women for surrogacy besides financial incentives - because, as recruiters well know - most women are powerfully motivated to help those in need and to prove that they are "good women". Recruiters and "intended parents" often love-bomb a prospective surrogate mother, offering her belonging, appreciation, care and company. In latest ep The Empathy Trap, founder of @WombsNotForRent Lexi Ellingsworth talks with Elle about the act of seducing a woman into surrogate motherhood.

Human beings (and that includes women) are not meant to produce a product to order. It’s a hideous, dehumanizing and appalling practice that needs to be criminalized globally.

New episode up✨with founder of @WombsNotForRent Lexi Ellingsworth! In 2026 the global surrogacy industry will grow to over 30 billion dollars. The manufacturing plants and raw materials that make this massive business possible are women's bodies, and the products being bought and sold are human babies. This hugely profitable industry can only exist if a subset of women offer themselves up for highly invasive, completely unnatural, risky, and life-altering medical procedures resulting in pregnancy and birth, or alternatively “egg-harvesting” - all with little to no legal protection or oversight. What motivates women to become surrogate mothers? What motivates women to have their eggs extracted for other women to “use”? What and who are the drivers behind the normalization of surrogacy? We know that money plays a big part, both for the surrogate mothers and to the chain of people who profit from this human trade - the surrogacy agencies, doctors, clinics, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry - what we might call Big Fertility - but there are other factors at play besides money. Lexi has been investigating surrogacy and campaigned against surrogacy law reform in the UK for 7 years, where commercial surrogacy is still illegal but "altruistic" surrogacy is getting more and more common. In her work to raise awareness around the mountains of ethical questions surrounding the practice of surrogacy in the UK and internationally, Lexi works closely with survivors of surrogacy and in this episode we get an inside view of the world of surrogate motherhood and the dangerously murky morality that surrogate mothers navigate on their often harrowing “journeys”. We talk about how toxic empathy, low self-esteem and needing to prove you are a good person can lead some women to offer up their bodies for use. We talk about so-called reproductive privilege, the idea that “aren't you lucky you can do this without any help, you don't have to go to an IVF clinic, and you really should help other people who don't have the same luck as you” as well as the adoption of human rights language such as Wombs Without Borders, “humanitarian surrogacy” and “fertility refugees”. We talk about the dehumanizing and highly manipulative language that is now being used to trivialize the whole biological act of becoming a mother into terms like “extreme babysitting” and “easy-bake oven” and what it means for women everywhere that we are creating a subclass of women who are used or useful for breeding for other people. The Empathy Trap subjecttopower.com/the-empat…

Must read from Aurora Linnea. Epstein is not an aberration, he and his co-conspirators are utterly common and unexceptional. Men’s sexual violence against girls permeates our culture. open.substack.com/pub/antiat…

In new episode How To Become A Quarrelsome Woman, Elle @J42doc talks with the women behind @witchesofscotl1 and authors of “How To Kill A Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide To Silencing Women,” Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, about the connections between what happened during the burning times and what we’re experiencing right now. We talk about how women all over the world are rightly worried about the speed with which our rights are being taken away, and about how we mobilize, resist and fight back. Link in bio. #quarrelsomedames #feminism

Much of today’s rise of violent misogyny can find its cultural traces in the witch hunts of old Europe and North America. And while many of us are casually aware of these historical events, our two guests on this episode, novelist Zoe Venditozzi and human rights attorney Claire Mitchell of @witchesofscotl1, spent the last seven years digging deep into their own country of Scotland’s prolific history of witch trials and executions - a  history that was up to now virtually unknown. Gifted storytellers and viciously funny, Claire and Zoe document their journey into this dark past in their fascinating new book How To Kill A Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide to Silencing Women as well as on their hit podcast Witches of Scotland. Through a sharply feminist lens, Claire and Zoe unravel exactly how the witch craze kicked off, spread across Scotland, and was kept going for centuries, resulting in the torture and execution of over 4000 innocent people, most of whom were women. In this episode we talk about all of their projects, including their legal campaign to bring justice to those accused, convicted, and executed under the The Witchcraft Act of 1563, about the creation of their Clan Witches of Scotland tartan (for sale on their website), the importance of remembering and memorializing, and also about making connections between these grim events and our present time - as the forces that were at play hundreds of years ago are very much alive today. subjecttopower.com/how-to-be…

Today and every day we salute every woman who survives and manages to live out their life projects under patriarchy. This quote from Tanzanian healer and author Efu Nyaki reminds us that we are not a utility, we are not a bit player, we are not man’s burden or responsibility, we are not man’s helpmate or property, but rather we are society, we are humanity, we are the center of life and creation. Happy International Women’s Day 2026.

Li Wen from @seahorseplanet asks the stark questions on latest STP episode The State vs. Woman. Find the whole conversation at link in bio.

This is the see something, DO something era.

Male-run totalitarian governments copy paste each other’s oppressive tactics; one aspiring dictator looks at what another tyrant is up to and adopts similar methods - and all variations on the same theme - mainly to keep women vulnerable and under men’s control, and away from self-determination and any political power. Li Wen started out as a journalist and policy analyst in China and now lives in Germany where she hosts a wildly popular Chinese podcast called Seahorse Planet. Banned in China but globally popular, Seahorse Planet features critical and inspirational feminism, the type of women’s rights talk male-run totalitarian governments despise and forbid. In this episode, The State vs. Woman, we talk about China’s u-turn on gender equality, the many social pressures women are subjected to now, including beauty duty, the marriage trap, discrimination in education and jobs market, and what its latest MeToo movement is accomplishing. We also talk about the huge ripple effects of China’s 35-year-long one child policy and compare notes between the US and China on the birth rate panic and each of our government’s desperate attempts to promote marriage and so-called family values. subjecttopower.com/the-state…

The idea of porn as sex education is full circle moment for pedophile predators. Porn is a well-known grooming device, framing in the child's mind sex as sexual violence and acclimating the victim to sexual degradation and violation - before the child has ANY reference for sex at all.