Jo-Ann Finkelstein, PhD 

Clinical psychologist, author of Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in The Modern World, mother, feminist, dog person, raging against the machine.

As our kids develop their first crushes, start to date, and fall in love, we watch with hope, excitement, and trepidation. Will they get hurt? Will they choose someone good to them or pine for someone unkind or unavailable? How can we set them up to understand love when we don't understand it half the time? Even so, it’s our job to drive home what a good relationship is and what to watch out for.

From Paper Hearts to Tender Human Hearts

The misogyny overlay adds weight to the overall stress load women are carrying today.

We need to consider how the stress related to misogyny negatively affects women’s health, at an individual and public health level now, more than ever, because misogyny is on the rise (at least the outward expression and level of aggressiveness).

Big tha…

The misogyny overlay

PREPARING GIRLS FOR LOVE: Tell your daughters that it doesn’t matter if someone feels love, if he can’t show it most of the time. Tell them it doesn’t matter, even if they understand his trauma. The concept behind these words is you can’t love a man into examining his pain, no matter how beautiful, smart, or caring you are, because you c…

From Paper Hearts to Tender Human Hearts

Loved talking to Molly about misogyny and stress and hearing too what

and had to say! Such a smart, thought-provoking piece I will be pondering for a long time.

The misogyny overlay

I promise you, women do not take up too much space. It’s just factually inaccurate. Despite having written a book aaaalll about sexism, it never ceases to piss me off when I hear a new statistic about women’s erasure like their voices make up 1% (!!!) of the bible. JFC!!!

What Beyoncé and Taylor Swift can teach us about female mythology

Preach Dan! The dancing is what we’re fighting for!!

I know there are loads of famous celebrities here but since I joined Substack I have fangirled out to some amazing writers. Humorist

, feminist author , thoughtful psychologist , and body culture writer .

These are some of my celebrities here and I have either collaborated or received some actual communication with each of these fabulous …

Endlessly debating the meaning of the latest Trump/Musk horror is not activism.

Spending endless hours doom-scrolling until you are so panicked that you can’t function isn’t activism.

Trying to convince people things are hopeless isn’t activism.

Despair isn’t activism.

These actions—and many like them, that burn through our emotional energy but which accomplish nothing—feel like activism because they are exhausting.

But the despair, panic, and overwhelm are the point. Fascist coups depend on th…

Let’s do this thing! Let’s do it right here on Substack and everywhere else.

Breakup with the manosphere

Here’s to trying to maintain hope, keeping the channels of communication open with our kids and fighting like hell! Loved thinking out loud with the amazing and inspiring

!!

Liberating Motherhood
Liberating Motherhood Podcast
Despair is not activism: Talking to your kids about sexism and oppression in the Trump Era: An Interview with Jo-Ann Finkelstein
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