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Proutcast Blog with Dada Veda and Mirra Price I’m sending an excerpt on pseudo-culture from this longer podcast on social justice and gender issues. I feel it is relevant in the political climate we are experiencing in this country today. Proutcasts are with Dada Veda who interviews students of the Progressive Utilization Theory (Prout) on […] Read more
by Mirra Price I just went to see “Bombshell” with Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly and Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson. It was powerful to see how these women brought down serial sexual harasser, Roger Ailes of the Fox News Network. What struck me the most was the silence of dozens of women who had […] Read more
by Mirra Price Recently I had an upsetting experience in which an organization I had been in a leadership role for nearly a decade, abruptly ousted me from that role for a period of time. When that time period was over, we had a meeting which I thought would be about how I would resume […] Read more
by Mirra Price On the heels of the Me#Too! and Time’s Up! Movements, is the beginning of a transformation in the power structure between xanax men and women. I wholeheartedly support the myriad women who have stood up and called out sexual misconduct, some for recent sex crimes and some for sexist violent actions that […] Read more
By Mirra Price What is feminism? Simply put, ‘feminism’ is “the theory of political and social equality of the sexes”. Many scholars look to Sappho, a prolific and esteemed lyric poet in Ancient Greece, as the first feminist. The 1792 publication of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by the English writer, Mary Wollstonecraft, […] Read more
by Mirra B. Price, a new version of “What is Prout” What is PROUT? PROUT is an acronym for the Progressive Utilization Theory which was propounded in 1959 by Indian philosopher Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. PROUT presents a viable alternative to the outmoded capitalist and communist socio-economic models. Neither of these theories has adequately met the needs […] Read more
by Mirra B. Price After seeing the new movie, “The Post”, I was stunned by the story of Washington Post owner, Katharine Graham’s heroism in publishing The Pentagon Papers, a top secret Department of Defense report on America’s involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The report exposed […] Read more
by Mirra B. Price It was a bit of a shock to see that some have been calling Margaret Atwood, Canadian Golden Globe winning author of “The Handmaid’s Tale’, a “bad feminist”. Apparently, she wrote an op-ed for The Globe and Mail in which she addressed criticism for signing a letter of support for writer Steven Galloway, who […] Read more
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