Episode 3.8 There’s Secret Feminism Under Everything (including lawyering) with Gloria Ng and Colleen Elden

This week’s episode is the first ever live Secret Feminist Agenda, recorded at the VPL as part of the Vancouver Podcast Festival. Don’t worry though, we all sound great and the sound of laughter/applause really adds something special. I’m considering having an audience at all future recordings. Anyway, I sat down in front of sixty of my … Continue reading Episode 3.8 There’s Secret Feminism Under Everything (including lawyering) with Gloria Ng and Colleen Elden

This week’s episode is the first ever live Secret Feminist Agenda, recorded at the VPL as part of the Vancouver Podcast Festival. Don’t worry though, we all sound great and the sound of laughter/applause really adds something special. I’m considering having an audience at all future recordings. Anyway, I sat down in front of sixty of my closest friends to talk to criminal defence lawyers Gloria Ng and Colleen Elden about charter rights, feminist friendship, and whether the law is a tool that can be bent towards justice or is inherently aligned with the oppressive function of the state! Fun! Links!

I’m just going to give you a bunch of potential reading about racism and sexism in the justice system, so here’s an op-ed about “the legal system’s response to murdered and missing Indigenous women”Here’s a super interesting piece about the racist history of marijuana laws, and something else about racism and marijuana decriminalizationI just came across this super interesting piece about breast pumping in the courthouse, which is part of a six-part series about women in the law in Muskoka!And finally, here’s a piece about how the decriminalization of sex work failed to protect sex workers because it instead “places the criminal burden on the demand side and on third parties” 

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The podcast theme song is “Mesh Shirt” by Mom Jeans off their album “Chub Rub.” Listen to the whole album here or learn more about them here.  Gloria and Colleen’s theme song is “Criminal” by Fiona Apple.

Secret Feminist Agenda is recorded and produced by Hannah McGregor on the traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.