Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: a Double Penalty - with Dr Annabel Sowemimo

Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: a Double Penalty - with Dr Annabel Sowemimo

Welcome to another episode of The 51% Minority, where we challenge the status quo through critical conversations. I'm Anna-Caroline Theil, and together with my co-host, Claire Sabatini, we are sitting down with Dr Annabel Sowemimo to discuss gender perspectives on racial discrimination in healthcare. In this episode, we unpack how historical systems of discrimination lead to harmful practices against people of colour in healthcare, how racism shows up in everyday interactions and how it especially impacts women in the realm of reproductive health. Let’s get into it

Gender Perspectives on Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere

Welcome to another episode of The 51% Minority, where we challenge the status quo through critical conversations. I'm Claire Sabatini, and together with my co-hosts, Anna-Caroline Theil and Swagata Sen, we are discussing Louis Theroux's new documentary, Inside the Manosphere. In this episode, we unpack online misogyny and the growing influence of the manosphere subculture. We explore how women are portrayed in the documentary, examine its broader societal impact, and ask what can be done to make online spaces safer for everyone. Let’s get into it. Content warning: discussion of gender-based violence and self-harm.

Women, Power, and Privilege in the Epstein Files

"Welcome to another episode of The 51% Minority where we challenge the status quo through critical conversations. I’m Claire Sabatini and together with my co-hosts, Anna-Caroline Theil and Swagata Sen, our conversation will focus on power: who holds it, how it is used, and how systems often fail those without it. We are discussing how society treats survivors of sexual abuse who come forward, the women connected to the Epstein case, and the broader structures that allow inequality and injustice to persist. This topic raises urgent questions about accountability, privilege, and the ways institutions respond when powerful people are implicated. Let’s get into it."

How Do We Build Feminist Power in Times of Crisis? With Shereen Essof

Welcome to another episode of the 51% Minority where we challenge the status quo through critical conversations. I’m Claire Sabatini and together with my co-host Anna-Caroline Theil we are sitting down with Shereen Essof. With decades of experience working alongside grassroots movements and community leaders, Shereen is now the Executive Director of Just Associates (JASS), and plays a central role to feminist organizing across the globe. In this episode, we explore what it means to truly build feminist power in times of crisis. From unpacking how power operates through interconnected systems of oppression to examining how collective action starts at the individual level. We reflect on questions of positionality, allyship, and the slow, deliberate work of turning outrage into organized power. Let’s get into it.

Whose Knowledge Counts? Education, Patriarchy, and Cognitive Justice with Catherine Odora Hoppers

Welcome to another episode of the 51% Minority where we challenge the status quo through critical conversations. I’m Claire Sabatini and together with my co-host Anna-Caroline Theil we are coming back after a long break to sit down with Professor Catherine Odora Hoppers, an internationally renowned scholar whose work spans education, Indigenous knowledge systems, and cognitive justice. Together we are unpacking what education means beyond schooling, and examining how patriarchy and colonialism define knowledge. This episode challenges feminism to think beyond labels and single-issue struggles and asks: What would it mean to seek justice in knowledge itself? Let’s get into it!