2.7 An Interview with Valerie Hudson, a Global Expert on Women’s Issues

Currents: the Big Ocean Women Podcast

In this episode, Kim Landeen and Carolina Allen discuss our tenet, “We are each unique and worthy of respect” with Valerie Hudson, a global expert on women’s issues.

Women Stats Project

The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide

“National security is integrally linked to what’s going on with women.” - Valerie Hudson

What is a woman? - A woman is an adult human female

“I certainly feel exactly the same way [outraged] about men, males, who feel that they can take on the identity of those that they have oppressed and maltreated, not just for centuries, but for millenia, and claim to speak for us. It is an absolute outrage, it is male imperialism of the worst sort and should be resisted by all women of goodwill.” - Valerie Hudson

“You cannot make progress for women, if ‘women’ includes ‘men.’” - Valerie Hudson

“We can’t even know who we are and what we do and what our threats are if we cannot name ourselves as a sex class that has been maltreated by the other sex class for millenia.” - Valerie Hudson

“They’re fleeing womanhood as if it were a house on fire!” - Valerie Hudson

“Now, the overwhelming majority of people who are transitioning are adolescent girls who have seen the porn and have said, ‘There is no way on earth that I am going to be that woman. I want out of womanhood.’” - Valerie Hudson

“I demand, and I will continue to demand, that there is a healing that occurs in our society, and I am grateful for the men that do step up; at Big Ocean we believe in the interdependence of men and women, and we have seen the possibility of interdependence where men and women rise together, respecting each other's differences and the strength in those differences. That is the protection that children need to be raised in.” - Kim Landeen

“This change needs to happen, but this change needs to happen first and foremost in the home.” - Kim Landeen

“The strongest thing you can do to save the future is raise your children in a household where the mother and father respect each other as equals, where there is no maltreatment, where there is no porn use, where there is no financial abuse or emotional abuse, where you give them a vision of why there are men and women and how that can be a good thing and not a horrible thing … what you pass on is what you live.” - Valerie Hudson

Sex and World Peace

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution - Louise Perry

The Veil is Beginning to Burst

Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H. W. Bush Chair in the Department of International Affairs of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. She is a coauthor of Sex and World Peace (Columbia, 2012), The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy (Columbia, 2015), and The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide, among others. She is the founder of The WomanStats Project and Database.

Carolina is the founder and leader of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Carolina holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah with an emphasis in cultural religions and philosophy of science. Her inspirational and philosophical work has been presented at various international U.N. conferences. She is just too a native of Brazil, and a fluent trilingual. She and her husband Kawika are parents to 7 children. She is an avid soccer fan and had a brief career as a semi-professional player.

Kim Landeen is a founding member and a Global Team Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Kim has a deep love for the natural world. She lives in Alaska with her family where she enjoys spending the slower paced life with her children combing the beach for treasures, gardening, picking wild berries, and spending rainy lazy days making bread, reading books, and watching movies. She is an ecotour captain in Glacier Bay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where she helps educate her clients on the relationship between humanity and the larger eco-environment. In addition to her love of nature, she also enjoys studying theology and the inner workings of the soul as well as tracking global political and social movements. Her love for God, people, and this world drives her to continually seek to improve her own circumstances and the circumstances of all those with whom she comes in contact.