Subject To Power
Episodes
How To Become A Quarrelsome Woman
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
The State vs. Woman
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Male-run totalitarian governments copy paste each other’s oppressive tactics; one aspiring dictator looks at what another tyrant is up to and adopts...
Find Your Sisters
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
One of the main goals of Subject To Power is to create an international platform for women (and some men) from different cultures to come on and repor...
Sacred Darkness
27 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For Finnish scholar Kaarina Kailo, the sauna is the medicine we need in these dark and tormented times. “In the sauna you are brought into direct co...
United In Misogyny
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With male violence being an inescapable and world-shaping force, one that undermines democracy, equality and peace - how do we unpack and tease apart ...
Some Poems For My Sex
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Poet Usha Akella talks about poems as bridges into worlds, bridges that help to soften borders - and there is nothing we need more at this moment - th...
Banning Women
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning non-fiction writer and journalist Rachel Hewitt unearths and writes about various corners of women’s history - and the subsequent eras...
The Lives of Boys
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Parents, teachers and youth workers of all kinds are warily watching how the internet, smartphones and social media is impacting adolescence, and ther...
In The Name Of Gender
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conversation and debate regarding transgenderism or gender ideology has been effectively forbidden and shut down for many years, and people who have d...
Inside Man's Delusions
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Like a detective trying to establish a motive for the crime, Aurora Linnea digs deep into our cultural history and Man’s destruction of the living w...
They Still Call Us Witches
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What drives societies to turn on women in their midst - with accusations, branding, persecution and often violence and death - in the name of witchcra...
Loneliness Guaranteed
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The world rushes to meet the ever-expanding sexual appetites of men - and then we collectively call it “men’s needs” and agree that “men’s n...
The World Is My Brothel
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prostitution cannot be contained in one small corner of the culture. Once we accept and endorse the sale of women for men’s sexual use and abuse, th...
Good Girls No More
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a woman, you can roll along with the assumption that your body belongs to you and you alone. That you are an autonomous human being like everyone e...
How To Build A Good Human
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a good human? We receive prescriptions for virtuous morality from all manner of religions, philosophies, and intellectual traditions - but...
Uncontainable Trauma
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As new wars emerge across the world, wars that ended decades ago are still destroying the societies that waged them. Guest on today’s episode, Olive...
Buy One, Buy All
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The institution of prostitution has received a re-branding in recent times, appropriating terms from labor and the corporate world such as “sex work...
They Called Us Witches
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of The Enlightenment, when men in the West hailed reason and rationalism, and aspired towards lofty ideals such as liberty, equality and ...
We Are The Donkeys Here
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Motherhood, in our Western culture, is full of contradictions. On the one hand, mothers perform an essential task: creating and nurturing new human li...
Engineers In Our Garden
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Science and technology is a synonym for progress. It is always considered a step forward, an improvement of our lives, a promise of new possibilities....
Mapping The Murder Of Women
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The prevalence of murder of women by men, across the world, is beyond dispute. The phenomenon - the murder of women because they are women - has becom...
Our Hidden Blueprint
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our economic institutions - capitalism, trade, money, the market - are based on one fundamental principle: Quid Pro Quo. Something For Something. It i...
Tending To Our Brothers
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Men don’t fall from trees - they subscribe to societal messages, they follow rules,” says Dr. Shahieda Jansen, clinical psychologist, scholar i...
A Worldwide Gauntlet
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No status puts a woman at greater vulnerability than that of being a migrant or refugee. Anna Zobnina is a Strategy and Executive Director at Europea...
Lures and Traps
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If we think of patriarchy as a living, breathing, constantly evolving strategy that finds its expression at all levels of society - socially, economic...
As Above, So Below; As Below, So Above
16 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In many ways, the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves in myths, religion, and history - are blueprints for our human lives. But the converse is ...
A Strange Exchange
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book Body Shell Girl, poet and sex trade survivor Rose Hunter brings us into the strange theater that takes place between sex buyers and pr...
Our Brutal Fathers
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How did patriarchy first begin? The answers to that question are many and varied, and most often tries to explain it by one single factor - Agricultur...
The Mother Line
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We may believe that violent patriarchy is an inevitable reality, that our current world culture simply is a result of our immutable human nature. A hu...
What On Earth Is Peace?
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In her recent book Femicide in War and Peace, Israeli anthropologist and femicide expert Shalva Weil says that “the dividing line between femicide i...
Forever In Our Feelings
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In trying to explain inequality between the sexes - we often arrive at the idea that women inhabit the emotional realm, and that men inhabit the think...
Unwanted Sex
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The sexual exploitation industries have been extremely successful in penetrating (pun intended) every layer of society - and like Gail Dines calls it ...
Systems of Peace
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since it was published in 1987, Riane Eisler’s groundbreaking international bestseller The Chalice And The Blade has launched a full frontal challen...
The Great Overwelm
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our language - profane, sublime and everything in between - holds hidden truths about our cultural heritage, our current reality, and who determines i...
The Mothers Of Invention
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With a steady stream of new research coming to light, it is becoming clear that the version of Western history we are taught in school - has a thick l...
Back From The Brink
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Even in this period of perpetual war between men across the world - at no time in history did the contest for world domination reach as dangerous a mo...
No Country For Women
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For most of us who end up in feminism, who end up actively fighting for women’s rights - the consciousness that brought us here - came at a steep pr...
Old Tricks, New Tricks & The Same Tricks
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is no issue where the distance between the idea - and the lived reality - is as far apart as in prostitution. The discourse about prostitution o...
Summer Thoughts
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A huge thank you to everyone who is listening, subscribing, sharing and engaging with Subject To Power. We are 20 episodes in and wrapping up Season 1...
Third Wave Riptide
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If patriarchy is our default system - radical feminism is the only system of thinking and action that challenges the status quo of male domination. Th...
Our Living Energies
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about rights and freedoms it is often in political, economic, and gender-less human rights terms. The conversation is often dualistic - t...
Porn Is A Battlefield
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many of us, pornography seems like an inevitable fact of life. Internet porn use is so widespread, so normalized, so uncontroversial - that it’s...
Who To Believe!
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is our justice system in the business of determining what is true or false? Do our courts really determine who is guilty or innocent? Does our crimina...
The Peacebuilders
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many scholars who study the evolution of humanity - sociologists, anthropologists, biologists - have come to the conclusion that we, all of us, would ...
Finding Our Goddesses
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every major religion in the world today features a male deity. Or as Miriam Robbins Dexter puts it: “Man was created in God's image and woman wasn't...
The Hellscape Files
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We know that our sexuality is central and significant to our human existence. Human sexuality is a complex package of functions - biological surely, b...
My Baby, My Baby
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The battle for control of reproduction is as old as time, and since women alone have the power to create new life, women’s bodies continue to be the...
Hearts Raging
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are in our 6th millennia of patriarchy, and as this episode’s guest Susan Hawthorne puts it, “the publicity program for patriarchy has been goi...
Orgasm At Any Cost
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If we were to devise a mechanism by which male power writ large can reach the innermost center of female power - and maim or destroy it - it would loo...
The Girls Work
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What happens in the course of our childhood that shapes girls and boys so differently? Why do men and women end up with such vastly different psycholo...
Shakespeare’s Murderers
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Centuries before psychoanalysis was born, William Shakespeare was analyzing the root causes of male violence and giving detailed, intimate, almost mic...
Covert Operations
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We may think of military and war as strictly male pursuits - but governments and militaries all over the world spend a lot of man-hours strategizing a...
Unnatural Authority
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If we ask what the key instruments are, by which male power and control is maintained - family court is right at the top of the list. As an institutio...
Resource Extraction
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Revolutionary advancements in biotechnologies has created a massive industry known as 'third-party reproduction', which has moved the process of procr...
Sex, Lies & Lies About Sex
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Women always face conflicting cultural narratives in which our sex plays a central role, and much of the time the rhetoric in the foreground is there ...
Endless Enclosures
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For women and girls, studying history rarely gives us the answers we seek about how we arrived here. Official history is written by men about men, abo...
The Oldest Trauma
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if misogyny is not the hatred of women - but a phobia? What if patriarchy is not a power structure - but a pathology? And what if we could trace ...
The Oldest Tyranny
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite great social diversity across the planet, it is an observable fact that males subordinate females across almost all human cultures. Elle speak...
Introducing: Subject To Power with Elle Kamihira
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Subject To Power is a sprawling investigation into universal female subjugation and male domination, the forces that keeps us unequal, and what it all...