Elly Arrow interviews Yagmur Uygarkizi about her years-long research into unethical medical trials conducted on sexually exploited women and girls in the Global South, the misogyny and neo-colonialism that enable such experimentation, and how it all ties into the Gates Foundation’s work on HIV and Bill Gates personal treatment of women in light of his infamous connection to Jeffrey Epstein.

Links

Yagmur Uygarkizi’s website: https://borazansesli.com/

“Prostituted Women Experimented on For Decades in USA-funded HIV Trials Overseas”: https://4w.pub/prostituted-women-experimented-on/

Epstein alleges that Gates got an STI while exploiting young Russian women: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/30/bill-gates-caught-std-from-russian-girls-epstein-claimed/

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Sybil Jo is joined by her life-long friend, Sister Pauletta Duke, to discuss their shared experience of being brought up in a U.S. Christian evangelical context, the damaging patriarchal hierarchies and mechanisms at play lending themselves to controlling and manipulating women and girls, including into (commercial) sexual exploitation, and how ideas and powerful individuals from within the fundamentalist movement heavily influence mainstream U.S. politics today.

Elly Arrow speaks to Kajsa Ekis Ekman about how the surrogacy industry turns women’s reproductive capacity, as well as infants, into commodities, subject to contractual conditions and market forces. They trace the history of surrogacy, explain its modern-day practices, its appearance in the Epstein case, exploring similarities and differences between surrogacy and prostitution, and finally elaborate on how resistance against these industries can be mounted.

Links

Kajsa Ekis Ekman’s website: https://www.kajsaekisekman.org/about

“Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self“: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18727849-being-and-being-bought

Khloé Kardashian had a hard time connecting with her son after the 'transactional' nature of surrogacy: https://www.businessinsider.com/khloe-kardashian-surrogacy-tatum-relationship-2023-5

Olivia Maurel, born from surrogacy, speaks out as an adult: https://www.instagram.com/maurel_oliviaoff/

Surrogacy continues during the Ukraine war: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyp4kp687go

Books on surrogacy by Renate Klein: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/38649.Renate_Klein

Casablanca Declaration for the Universal Abolition of Surrogacy: https://declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org/

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