15 Feb 2026
Episode 48, featuring Amy Sousa
Photo: Amy and me following her talk at WDI-USA’s 2024 conference in AtlantaIt’s a real thrill to have Amy Sousa on the show. The night before we recorded this I stayed up until 1am re-watching her TwiX and YouTube videos until I had to force myself to quit for the night. I’ll interject audio from two of my favorites into this episode. Here’s some bio taken from Amy’s website:As a modern-day gender abolitionist and women’s rights activist, it’s my mission to educate, protect, & inspire others to question the norm, create healthy boundaries, and to trust their instincts.As an educator, writer, and creator, I am dedicated to helping women and others build emotional and psychological skills to support a confident, grounded life.I hold a Master’s degree in Depth Psychology* and I’ve spent years studying the internal landscapes that shape how we think, feel and navigate the world. My work focuses on instincts, embodiment, safeguarding, and emotional skill-building. I cleanly translate complex topics into clear, practical tools anyone can use.To quote LGBCC’s Bev Talbott, Boy howdy! Does she ever.Readers, I respect that some of you strongly prefer reading to listening, but I urge you to make an exception this time and skip the transcript in favor of this lively, fully-embodied conversation. We recorded it four days ago on February 11th, and I hurried to get it ready to post while the awful-yet-unsurprising news events we discussed are still front of mind and not yet exhaustively biopsied. Amy has a way of pointing out facets of human behavior and motivations that hadn’t yet occurred to us.Links:Follow Amy Sousa at her website The Known Heretic (https://www.theknownheretic.com/)Video: Canadian Trans School Shooting (https://www.theknownheretic.com/p/canadian-trans-school-shooting?r=l5fbr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) The Known Heretic Substack 2/11/26Video: High School Girl [Wrestler] Sexually Assaulted (https://www.theknownheretic.com/p/shocking-high-school-girl-sexually?r=l5fbr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web)The Known Heretic Substack 2/10/26Video: Parent Consent in Schools! (https://open.substack.com/pub/knownheretic/p/parent-consent-in-schools?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer) The Known Heretic Substack 2/3/26Related written post: The Glamorization of Violence Against Women (https://open.substack.com/pub/knownheretic/p/the-glamorization-of-violence-against?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer) The Known Heretic Substack 3/17/23Written post: My Journey with Breast Cancer (https://open.substack.com/pub/knownheretic/p/my-journey-with-breast-cancer?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer): Breast Cancer as a Lens for Embodiment vs Dissociation OR Sex-Based Medicine vs "Gender Affirming Care." The Known Heretic Substack 7/1/24Gender Nihilism and the Revolutionary Impulse (https://open.substack.com/pub/colinwright/p/gender-nihilism-and-the-revolutionary?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email), the eerily well-timed guest article in Reality’s Last Stand (2/10/26) by Brooke Laufer that’s getting a lot of well-deserved attentionBe Amy’s 64,267th follower on X! (https://x.com/KnownHeretic)Be my 119th follower on X! (https://x.com/trans_muted)Credits:Theme music by William A. FergusonUnMuted logo art by Anne Gibbons This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jennypoyerackerman.substack.com (https://jennypoyerackerman.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
