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Chatting With BetsyOnline Harassment and Women’s Resistance🎙 When words become weapons, women rise in resistance. 👉 Listen now as Betsy Wurzel and Alia Dastagir expose the hidden toll of online harassment — and celebrate the strength of women who refuse to stay silent.In this episode of Chatting with Betsy, host Betsy Wurzel speaks with journalist and author Alia Dastagir about her groundbreaking book To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online. Alia opens up about the emotional toll of online harassment, including death and rape threats from strangers, revealing how digital abuse harms menta...
2025-10-0754 min
A Moment with Erik FlemingSurvival Is Resistance Featuring Dr. Caroline Heldman, Alia Dastagir, Melba Pearson and Dr. Tracy PearsonHost Erik Fleming sits down with political scientist Dr. Caroline Heldman and journalist Alia Dastagir to explore how survival becomes resistance for women facing harassment, assault, and online abuse. They discuss intersectionality, the limits of Me Too, trans-exclusionary movements, and survivor-led accountability.
The episode also features legal analysis from the Pearson & Pearson team on key upcoming Supreme Court cases involving voting rights, religious liberty in prisons, death penalty appeals, and executive tariff powers.
2025-09-222h 39
Brushwood Media NetworkCover To Cover with Alia DastagirALIA DASTAGIR is a former reporter for USA Today who frequently covers gender and mental health. She was one of eight U.S. recipients of the prestigious Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. She won a first-place National Headliner Award for a series on suicide and was the first winner of the American Association of Suicidology’s Public Service Journalism Award. Dastagir has appeared on CNN, NPR, and C-SPAN to discuss her reporting.Â
Grab a copy of- To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words of Violence and Stories of Women’s Resista...
2025-08-1630 min
Cover To CoverAlia Dastagir - Voices to Be HeardALIA DASTAGIR is a former reporter for USA Today who frequently covers gender and mental health. She was one of eight U.S. recipients of the prestigious Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. She won a first-place National Headliner Award for a series on suicide and was the first winner of the American Association of Suicidology’s Public Service Journalism Award. Dastagir has appeared on CNN, NPR, and C-SPAN to discuss her reporting.Â
Grab a copy of- To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words of Violence and Stories of Women’s Resista...
2025-08-1630 min
Rick Flynn PresentsALIA DASTAGIR - Award Winning Reporter and Former Reporter for USA TODAY - "To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person; Words as Violence and Stories of Women's Resistance Online" (Author) Ep. 239This week on Rick Flynn Presents:No, ladies and gentlemen, this gal ain't shy! Alia Dastagir is an award-winning journalist and former reporter for USA Today who frequently covers gender and mental health.Dastagir was one of eight U.S. recipients of the prestigious Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. She won a first-place National Headliner Award for a series on suicide and was awarded the American Association of Suicidology’s Public Service Journalism Award. Her book on women and online abuse, “To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Word...
2025-07-0248 min
Women, Life and ScienceTo Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person with Alia DastagirSend us a text"You’re not a person." That was the chilling message Alia Dastagir received after publishing a story on the abuse women journalists face online.As a former USA Today journalist, Alia had reported on countless difficult topics but nothing prepared her for becoming part of the story.Nearly 66% of women journalists have experienced online harassment. About 40% say it’s caused them to avoid reporting certain stories altogether.Alia’s experience sparked a deeper investigation into the psychological toll of online abuse—effects that can be even mor...
2025-05-2842 min
ThecuriousmanspodcastAlia Dastagir InterviewMatt Crawford speaks with Alia Dastagir, an award-winning journalist and author of For Those Who Have Confused You to be a Person. Part memoir, part cultural commentary, her book is a searing meditation on identity, invisibility, and the hunger for dignity in a fractured world. Alia shares how years of reporting on trauma, injustice, and inequity shaped her voice—and how this book became a personal reckoning. Together, we explore what it means to write truthfully when the world demands silence, how journalism and literature diverge when dealing with human suffering, and why empathy alone is never eno...
2025-05-281h 05
The Deep DiveEpisode 223: Words as Violence w/ Alia DastagirPhilip welcomes journalist Alia Dastagir, author of To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online. In their conversation, they discuss the harm and violence that women encounter online and how it effects our digital and cultural spaces.
The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.
Philip’s Drop:
North of North (Netflix)
Alia’s Drop:
There Are No Girls on the Internet
Spitfire News
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2025-05-081h 15
The He's Just PodcastsAlia Dastagir- To Those Who Have Confused You To Be A PersonAlia Dastagir a former USA Today reporter whose powerful work on gender and mental health has earned some of journalism’s top honors, including the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. Her reporting was recognized with a National Headliner Award and the American Association of Suicidology’s first Public Service Journalism Award, Alia has been featured on CNN, NPR, and C-SPAN.”“Today we’re talking with Alia about her new book, To Those Who Have Confused You To Be a Person: Words as Violence and Stories of Women’s Resistance Online. It’s a profound exploration of how languag...
2025-05-0758 min
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not SorryAlia Dastagir, Author of To Those Who Have Confused You to Be a PersonThere is a rapist presiding over the United States. That rapist has directed his government to gut federal efforts to protect women from violence of all sorts. Health and Human Services fired nearly all of its staff at the Division of Violence Prevention. The office on violence against women has removed all funding opportunities from its website and reports are coming in that all of the grants it issues are being cancelled. Online, platforms owned by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg–billionaires who support Trump and his regime–own giant social media platforms rife with digital violence against women and...
2025-04-2847 min
Talk with FrancescaAlia Dastagir, Award Winning JournalistHaving received a monumental amount of online vitriol for amplifying the stories of abuse victims, Alia Dastagir joins us Wednesday night at 8pm on The Francesca Luca Show on 95.9 WATD FM. She is an award winning journalist, former USA Today Reporter and author of "To Those Who Have Confused You to be a Person". Alia published a story as part of an investigation of child sexual abuse. In response, she was subjected to an endless torrent of hateful online comments, one of the most striking being, "I am sorry to those who have confused you to be a person because...
2025-04-1457 min
What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood | Parenting Tips From Funny MomsDEEP DIVE: Taking Care Of Our Parents (And Our Kids)This month's Deep Dive series is all about family dynamics. Listen to the whole playlist on Spotify.If you’re part of the “sandwich generation”– taking care of your parents and your children at the same time– you’ve got a lot of company. The demographic trends of starting our own families later, and increasing life expectancies, mean this double-caretaking will become a reality for a lot more of us. And it seems that this responsibility is falling more often on women: two-thirds of people doing the "double caretaking" are female. In this episode, we discuss how c...
2024-11-2546 min
Offline ThoughtsThe Patriarchy Within - How Both Men & Women Sustain SexismSexism is pervasive and infiltrates every aspect of our lives—from language and social norms to the structural infrastructure of our political and legal systems. The ugly truth is that all men are sexist - and that women are complicit in maintaining the sexist order in various ways.Please send your thoughts to offlinethoughts.podcast@gmail.com.SHOW NOTESArticles:Gender study finds 90% of people are biased against women, BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51751915Human Rights by Council of Europe: ht...
2024-08-191h 08
Here's Your Red FlagThe Nuts and Bolts of Narcissism, Part 2Toni and Lisa pick up where they left off last week discussing the main buzzwords and concepts of narcissism and toxic relationships. This episode focuses first on buzzwords from the devalue and discard stages including the silent treatment, isolation, gaslighting, triangulation, flying monkeys, smear campaign, "hoovering" and other concepts. They briefly discuss the "cult of two" that exists in a narcissistic relationship. They also discuss the two key strategies of grey rock and no contact for surviving and existing with toxic people. They conclude with a conversation on the lack of closure after leaving a toxic relationship and how...
2022-10-281h 24
Rise Up! with John KowalskiRoe is dead, Let the TBRI BeginThe 50 year walk through the valley of the shadow of death is over, but not before it cost us over 63 million lives. Lives that could have resulted in political change, scientific innovation, or spiritual leadership gone because they were inconvenient to the people who created them. Despite political rhetoric and angry vitriol, abortion was never a right outlined or even intended by the Constitution. The 1973 Supreme Court created legislation through activist jurisprudence. The 2022 Supreme Court corrected the gross overreach of their predecessors putting the decision back into the hands of the states. That battle will continue on the battleground...
2022-07-2558 min
What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood | Parenting Tips From Funny MomsTaking Care Of Our Parents (And Our Kids)If you’re part of the “sandwich generation”– taking care of your parents and your children at the same time– you’ve got a lot of company. The demographic trends of later parenting and increasing life expectancies mean this double-caretaking will become a reality for a lot more of us. And it seems that this responsibility is falling more often on women: two-thirds of people doing the double caretaking are female. In this episode, we discuss how caring for parents can be particularly fraught, whether you’re giving them daily insulin shots, or just trying to make sense of their...
2021-11-1746 min
Andrea Guachalla | Una Voz Conservadora en Medio del CaosEp. 6 | Sentencia de Muerte al Inocente Ante el Caso de la Niña Embarazada de YapacanĂAnte el caso de la niña de YapacanĂ que quedĂł embarazada como producto de un abuso, decenas de grupos pro-vida y pro-abort como tambiĂ©n autoridades se pronunciaron alrededor del paĂs y en el extranjero. En este episodio aprenderás sobre este complicado caso, la reacciĂłn que hubo a nivel Bolivia, y cĂłmo debemos responder como cristianos ante las demandas de sentencia de muerte al inocente.
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2021-10-311h 10
TRT For WarriorsDax Shepard On Steroids? USA Today Using Protected HIPPA information illegally? Mens Health EpidemicDax Shepard On Steroids? USA Today Using Protected HIPPA information illegally? Mens Health Epidemic. Â Â Â
Dax Shepard is taking 'heavy testosterone injections,' which are often misused. What experts want you to know.
Alia E. Dastagir
USA TODAY
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2021-07-2421 min
Culture ClubWould You Say Hi To Trump?Hi pals, Welcome to another episode of Culture Club. We start off with a little chat about mental health in yet another lockdown. What are some ways you're keeping sane? Next, we dissect the double-whammy of Gen Zs in American politics. Olivia Rodrigo asked young people to stay "happy and healthy" by getting vaccinated while Addison Rae introduced herself to a certain disgraced US president in Las Vegas. This sparked a conversation around the celebrification of politicians, is it sneaking into Australia? 17-year-old actress Millie Bobby Brown was unfairly targeted...
2021-07-1945 min
Optimistically Overwhelmed54: LIVIN' ON A PRAYERNow, more than ever, we need an anthem. Graduation season is upon us, Stay-At-Home orders are being extended while others are being lifted... So, what better way to get some of that anxiety, stress and numbness out than with a little Bon Jovi. While on one of her morning runs, DeDe shares how one song basically saved her and she found herself belting out the tunes while crying at the same time. The lyrics to this song ring so true in this current time, and the ladies can't help but share them with all of you.  DeDe an...
2020-05-2245 min