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Is This A Man's World? (Extended Episode) *TRIGGER WARNING IN DESCRIPTION*

Chess Victory, Minnie Phipps, Lydia Rodford Season 1 Episode 5

Trigger Warning: This episode deals directly with first hand accounts of sexual assault & harassment. This content was triggering to produce, and will be triggering at times for other survivors to listen to, so do you on this one. 
If you crossed paths with a woman in a dark alley, would you fear for your safety? What about if it was a man? What if a woman blocked your path to hit on you? What if a man did it? 
A raw and hardhitting conversation in this weeks EXTENDED EPISODE from us, where we face some of the issues of being a woman in this world head on and ask 
"Is this a man's world?" 
To give us a gentlemanly helping hand with this, we are proud to announce a NEW SPECIAL FEATURE for CSWU - The Male Correspondent!
A male friend of the pod is joining us when appropriate, to give HIS thoughts on the weekly topics and to open the convo up between men & women and there isn't a more appropriate episode for his debut. The rhetoric is currenlty very divisive between men & women and is dangerous territory. We are all on the same team, and in our opinion, it's simply "dickheads vs soound people" rather than men vs women. 

  With the media teeming with content about violence against women, and the horrendous tragedy of Sarah Everard shocking the UK, we couldn't justify NOT doing an episode on something that each one of us struggles with, no matter how uncomfortable. The reality is that too many women are lost to domestic violence, are rape survivors and nearly 1 in 3 women are victims of assault at the hands of men according to the UN Health Agency and W.H.O. Too many times this is normalised and put under the umbrella of "boys will be boys", or the WOMEN shouldn't put themselves in vulnerable situations, and THAT is what we at CSWU call; utter bullshit. Minnie is the fiery host of this episode, with emotions on the surface and unapologetic opinions, she and the girls open their hearts and shut down their tolerance in honour of themselves and of all female identifying humans and survivors of assault. Our voicenote this week is from the real Woman's Woman and unstoppable talent, Chian Reynolds.

We hope this episode resonates with survivors and gives hope that they are in good company, we are better together!

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All our love, 

The CSWU Girls xxx