Today’s Fine Feminist Hour with independent journalist Kait Justice felt like one of those conversations where your brain keeps trying to catch up with what you’re hearing.
We started with feminism: what it actually means, why the word has been so intentionally distorted, and why reclaiming it matters right now. Kait put it simply: feminism is the belief that women deserve equal rights. Full stop.
From there, we got into how she became one of the most compelling independent voices digging through the Epstein files on Substack.
And her origin story is pure internet-era investigative journalism.
A curiosity spiral that started with Donald Barr, Jeffrey Epstein, and a bizarre 1973 sci-fi novel somehow led her into uncovering deeper patterns involving billionaires, intelligence networks, Saudi money, survivor advocacy, and the broader systems protecting powerful people.
You can read more about it in her latest essay:
What struck me most wasn’t just the reporting—it was the way Kait talks about it. She’s not coming from legacy media. She comes from marketing, blogging, curiosity, and a relentless instinct for pattern recognition. And I think that’s part of why her work resonates with so many people right now.
We also talked about the strange and beautiful ecosystem developing on Substack itself: career journalists, accidental journalists, creative writers, researchers, and deeply curious people all building something in public together.
And underneath all of it was the same thread we come back to so often on TDWS: Who controls the narrative controls culture. And culture moves politics.
Thank you Jason Odell, Cat: Poli-Psych, Noble Blend, Courtney, Jai C. Porter🇨🇦, and many others for tuning in, with special thanks to our amazing moderators, Karen Marie Shelton and Yanni Hamburger.
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