This week we are discussing Seismic testing with Zoe Brittain a PhD researcher in marine science focusing on seaweed, A 'Stop Seismic Blasting on Southern Sea Country' protest organsier and avid disliker of trees (sick with us, it's a good reason) We discuss the impacts of Seismic blasting on marine life, Indigenous culture, local industry and the "consultation" process. Join Zoë and everyone from Stop Seismic Testing Date: October 22, 2023 Time: 2pm - approx 3:15 Location: Warrnambool Breakwate...
Oct 21, 2023•30 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast It's been over a year since Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's "historic" victory speech, so let's see what Albo and the Labor party have been up to. Federal ICACs, weaponising his Mum's struggles and licking the boots of mining conglomerates. Leah is joined by Sam Castro from WACA & Friends of The Earth for this gentle performance review, slight fashion review and over view of the issues surrounding electoral politics. (We don't talk about the Voice to Parliament on purpose. Many ...
Sep 04, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast CW: femicide, kidnapping, mentions of rape, murder, gendered violence, state violence, In this episode Leah is joined by Nazanin and Hoda from Feminista Melbourne to discuss the Feminist Uprising in Iran, the history of the Islamic Republic and what how we as a feminist community to support the movement. Photo credit: @Feminsta.Melbourne Links: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/feminista.melbourne/...
Apr 18, 2023•51 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast CW: femicide, kidnapping, mentions of rape, murder, gendered violence, state violence, In this episode Leah is joined by Nazanin and Hoda from Feminista Melbourne to discuss the Feminist Uprising in Iran, the history of the Islamic Republic and what how we as a feminist community to support the movement. Photo credit: @Feminsta.Melbourne Links: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/feminista.melbourne/ Mentioned in the episode: Two Women https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212573/reviews Reading Lolita ...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast CW mentions of abuse, assualt, forced birth and state violence. Welcome to part two of Leah and Madison telling forced birthers to suck it. Madison is an author, writer, producer and artist. They are talking about abortion and in this episode we (mostly) hone in on the roe v wade decision, polictical system that governs, surveils and abuses us - in a totally normal and legal way of course. As Leah is known for partaking in the cheeky, they have retained a lawyer, Jackie Daytona. Leah and Jackie ...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast CW mentions of abuse, assualt, forced birth and state violence. Jumping straight back in to 2023 with a hefty two parter on abortion. Leah is joined by author, writer, producer and artist Madison Griffiths as they discuss the personal aspects of abortion access. The socioeconomical and emotional impacts on access as well as the implict right to bodily autonomy. We go through some of the stories forced birthers tell us with a fine tooth comb and it turns out its pretty nonsense. We too were shock...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast This episode we have a chat with Celeste Liddle, Arrernte woman, activist, writer, speaker and the new latest Greens candidate for Cooper. We talk about their motivation for running, “feedback” from Labor members, racism, white feminism, covid, policy platforms, keeping an eye on the cops and the price of lollies. To support Celeste: https://www.facebook.com/celesteliddlegreens https://www.instagram.com/celesteliddlegreens/ https://twitter.com/Utopiana https://liddle.greens.org.au/ For more from...
Apr 05, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast Patriarchal bargain - what is it and who does it benefit? CW: mentions of sexual abuse, rape, misogny, transphobia, racism, systemic abuse, suicidal ideation, self harm. Leah and Steph try and understand the rationale of women who work within this patriarchal system, the benefits and the costs - to not just them but women and gender diverse folk across the continent. Mentioned in the podcast: Mona Eltahawy: www.feministgiant.com/ Angry Scotland Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2TSdjikDO...
Mar 13, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast Well that was a wild ride. Welcome to Religious Descrimination Bill part 2: Dead Bill Walking. We discuss the bill, death rattles, conspiracies and of course, abolishment of the state. (Steph tries to talk reason with Leah with no avail). We are very privledged to be joined by Gala Vanting, Program Manager at Scarlet Alliance - The national peak sex worker organisation on this continent. For more information about Scarlet Alliance: https://www.scarletalliance.org.au/ To make a submission to QLDs...
Feb 17, 2022•56 min•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast Hey kids, it's been a while but you know there is nothing quite like some bipartisan transphobia to force us to get a wriggle on. CW for homophobia, transphobia, misogny, mentions of suicide and self harm. We discuss the implications of the Religious Discrimination Bill if it passes without amendments, the discrimination laws that will be reversed in the name of religious discrimination and we have a chat about passages in the Bible which this discrimination is alledgedly justified. We speak wit...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to hell, or as others may know it, early September. CW for gendered violence, abuse, and systemic violence. We talk about abortion ban in Texas and what we should in Australia to improve access.The absolute abomination that has been appointed the position of Human Rights Commisioner. The National Women's Safety Summit, Respect at work/discrimination act, and finally John Setka. It's almost cute conservatives think we don't need feminism.
Sep 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast We need to find a cheerier topic but this year we pull apart the cashless debit card, Indue and have a peak at the documented effects on cardholders and Amanda from Say No 7 is interviewed by Steph to highlight first hand accounts and lived experiences of the cashless debit card. If the Nats and the Libs have their way, low key anyone on a payment will be on it - please help us stop the card. The Say NO Seven https://www.thesaynoseven.com/who-we-are/ Reports and articles: https://www.thesaynosev...
Aug 04, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we do a quick look back at the history of the prison complex and a very basic step through what is prison abolition, what it is not and what our community could look like if we abolished them all together (it could be pretty sweet) We are joined by legend, lawyer and Flat Out Inc board memeber Karen Fletcher to talk about the work Flat Out does and the benefits prison abolition has on our community. Resources: http://emergingwritersfestival.org.au/event/late-night-literature-abol...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Big ol CW for mentions of sexual violence, sexual acts, violence, porn, reproductive organs, and mention of child sexual assault at 1:01:37-1:02:43. This week we are joined by Eva Sless, sexpert, educator, writer and author of 'A Teenage Girl's Guide to Getting Off' to chat about age appropriate sex education in schools, pleasure and just how worried about porn should we be really? This episode is a hefty middle finger to SWERFs, anti porn crusaders and all the folk out there who shame sexuality...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast CW for mentions of rape & assault. Welcome to our review of the LNP's 2021-2022 so called "Women's budget”. We chat many, many statistics, the flow on effects of underfunding these services and the culture that underpins these decisions (it's misogyny). We interview the very very cool Eliza Littleton from The Australia Institute about the gendered impacts of this alleged women's budget and what she would do differently. (time stamp: 22min) Resources: More from Eliza https://australiainstitute.or...
Jun 09, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast This episode we are introducing a new cohost Steph, who you might remember from past episodes such as a Jaunty Stroll Through the History of Transmedicalisation and Happy Coup Year! In just over an hour discuss Universal Childcare, some “interesting” research out of Germany and how it just one small piece of a utopian puzzle. We also talk about the education system, mental health, abortion, even Foucault gets a look in. All of this with our regulation shitting on the LNP, stoker, and a healthy s...
May 22, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast This week Leah is joined by Callum Edwards (he/they/bug) to discuss trans allyship including performativity, microagressions and TERF dogwhistles. Please support Callum's art https://bugdrawz.carrd.co/ And here are some links for further ally education https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/09/19/why-asking-students-their-preferred-pronoun-not-good-idea-opinion (Rachel N Levin: Why Asking Students Their Preferred Pronoun is Not a Good Idea) https://medium.com/@quinncrossley/uplifting-diverse-...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Leah is joined this week by Sam Castro from WACA , friends of the earth and cohost of They're Gunna Kill Us podcast and all round bad ass feminist. We talk about the layers of oppression, intersectional feminist foundations, learning from mistakes and how vital community is when building movements. We also chat about the upcoming rolling stoppages , women's strike, and our plans to unite the feminist left. We can not keep asking nicely for our rights, it's time to take them! When women stop, the...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Leah is joined by SlutWalk Narrm organiser Mev as they discuss the socialist history of International Women's Day, how that transpired into cupcakes & ways we can get it back. Leah also speaks to Ness who is one of the speakers at IWD Narrm about Ness' work at Gabriela Australia. Gabriela provide education and information sessions on the rights and welfare of women and children, with a focus on the areas of health and family violence. ( https://www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/directory/gabriela-australia...
Mar 06, 2021•56 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast CW: discussion of rape, sexual violence & victim blaming. When Brittney Higgins publicly acknowledged not only that she was raped but that the Liberal Government knew and covered it up, the country went into shock. And by the county we mean, a lot of cis men were vocally shocked. In this episode we discuss our infinite anger at a culture that seemingly refuses to hear victim survivors, the culture that perpetuates this behavior and the government that allows rape culture to thrive. 45% of the re...
Feb 25, 2021•44 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast CW: mentions of rape, abuse and assault. Discussion of Eating Disorders Happy Anniversary to us! One year since our recording (but not one year since releasing because editing audio is a pickle and listening to yourself breathe into a microphone is torture) Leah is all alone for this one, Lamenting about the time she met Dante, and reflecting on past episodes. First we speak with Sharna Bremner from End Rape on Campus about the LetUsSpeak campaign. time code: 2:08-8:04 To support End Rape on Cam...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever wondered what the Minister for Women does? Did you also have the fever dream that Tony Abbott was the Minister for Women? Well! Fasten your seatbelt because we’re taking you on a 35 year ride through the history of the Office for Women. In this episode we bring you a run down of what each of our Ministers for Women have done as the representative for women’s issues/status/interests. Leah also does a profile on Aileen Moreton-Robertson as part of our new intro where we talk about a ...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast TW/CW: 07:34-14:39 discussions of abuse of birth givers and infant mortality in relation to the mother and babies report in Ireland. 14:40-16:43 discussions about accused paedophile Malka Leifer Leah and Carly are joined by special guest host Stephanie who takes us all on a jaunty stroll through the flummoxing foundations and monstrous machinations of trans exclusionary radical feminism. We discuss transphobia from the feminist movement and the Catholic/Christian church. We also discuss some of ...
Feb 03, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to a new season of Loud, Angry & Not Sorry where we talk about news, politics and current events from a feminist perspective. Leah & Carly are joined by mega babe and self proclaimed weirdo Steph to go over the very cool and super normal events that have taken place since we last spoke with you all. So sit back, enjoy and look forward to speaking with you all soon! This podcast was recorded on stolen land.
Jan 27, 2021•35 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Join Noon, Travis, Jo & Leah, a ragtag assembly of deep cover agents from the podcasting underground. They emerge blinking like naked mole people into the sunlight to bring you a round-up of this year of our lord, the cursed 2020. That’s right folks, they’re here not to save the world, but to bring you MegaPod. These four highly virile brain geniuses from at least FOUR SEPARATE PODCASTS combine to bring YOU: Aliens! Sex jam! Anal Fistulas, Pope Fights, Weird Al, Juggalos Takeovers and... All the...
Dec 30, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast This week Leah and Carly discuss Craig McLachlan and Justice Belinda Wallington, and Leah interviews Peaches about decriminalisation of sex work and the work of the Vixen Collective. We also discuss the history feminist ‘waves’, their white supremacist, Euro-centric problem and why the concept of feminism having ‘waves’ is a neoliberal crock. This podcast is recorded on stolen Aboriginal land.
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Leah and Carly discuss Indue cards, Public drunkedness laws and Bevan Sheild's love letter to Susanne Moore, bigots and the "intellectual" "left" "The Meat" of this episode, which is awfkward to say for a vegetarian, is discussing slurs, what makes a slur and slur and why TERF aint one. We do mention/allude to slurs through out this episode, some intentionally, some unintentionally - but we do offer alternatives for slurs so stay tuned for that. Send this episode to your probbo white femmo aunty...
Dec 11, 2020•55 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast CW: discussions of systemic, physical & sexual violence, apologism, homophobia, transphobia and male aggression. There are some personal anecdotes which don't go into specific detail, but they may stir somethings up and if they do, feel free to step away, take care and contact 1800 RESPECT for support. This week Leah is joined by Chilli from 3CR, Latinx Feministas and co host of SlutWalk Melbourne's 2020 rally and Mev an organiser with SlutWalk Melbourne collective. We were supposed to talk abou...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Leah is joined by Kate this week who is a social worker with around ten years experience working in crisis accomodation to discuss the "social" housing package, how the system currently works and how important community organising is. We are also joined by Eirene from Renters and Housing Union to chat all things unions, humble beginings and how important inclusivity is in community organising. Join RAHU: rahu.org.au Our mates at Auspol Snackpod covered Social Housing also from a more academic pe...
Nov 26, 2020•39 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast CW for this episode: mentions of sexual harrassment. definitions of and experiences with sexual assault and criminal justice system/court cases. Time stamp for the interview with Dr Bianca Fileborn: 18:45-53:15. We appreciate these are difficult and sensitive topics. Please contact 1800 Respect if you are impacted or in distress. Welcome friends to another episode of Carly and Leah discussing this vast political hellscape from a feminist perspective. This week we talk bonk bans, bubbles within b...
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast 
