Ep. 28 - Fighting for Women's Rights through Faith, Policy, & #MeToo ft. Zoe Goodman

BrownTown listens, learns, and sheds light on the ongoing fight
for women's rights with Zoe Goodman, social justice advocate,
abortion clinic escort, and certified confidential victim
advocate for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Through personal experiences in faith, changing public policy,
and #MeToo, the friends discuss the nuance and robust process of
intersectional movement building for gender equity.



Zoe details her experiences as a abortion clinic escort and
working with survivors of sexual assault. As Zoe explains, her
interfaith upbringing and finding institutional Judaism as a
young adult is a large part of why she considers her advocacy
work a duty, not a choice. As she elaborates on important facts
surrounding the normalcy of abortion and the prevalence and
costliness of intimate partner violence, the gang breaks down the
narrative-changing importance of movements like Shout Your
Abortion and the real origins of #MeToo, giving a nod to
organization’s founder Tarana Burke. Furthermore, the gang also
discusses healthcare policy, alleviating poverty to uplift
everyone, and the role of cultural rhetoric and discourse in
systems change. However, these avenues and narratives
consistently meet pushback or co-option from powerful
institutions and people every step of the way. With that, how can
we better understand our complex history, polarizing present, and
cautiously optimistic future? How do we remain unapologetic in
our work, in our rhetoric, and still manage to bring more into
the fold? Here’s BrownTown's take.


 


GUEST
Zoe is a racial and gender justice advocate who has five years of
nonprofit experience, including time as a teacher in a Title I
Charter school. She has lived in Colorado, Tennessee, New Jersey,
Illinois, and has been really happily living in Brooklyn for the
last three years. Volunteerism has been an important part of her
life as far back as she can remember. However, really thoughtful
advocacy and social justice involvement started when she moved to
Evanston, Illinois in high school. Zoe is a Jewish woman proudly
from an interfaith family, raised in the Lutheran Church. She is
a certified confidential victim advocate for survivors of sexual
assault and domestic violence and a long-time abortion clinic
escort. Follow Zoe on Facebook and Instagram and research further
on her referenced data sources: Guttmacher Institute, Planned
Parenthood, National Organization of Women, Urban Resource
Institute, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and
TESSA.


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CREDITS: Intro/outro music by Fiendsh. Intro
sound bite from Shout Your Abortion Stories - Volume 22. Audio
engineered by Genta Tamashiro.


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