Welcome back! In this episode, I’m discussing the recent discourse surrounding Sabrina Carpenter, using her marketing and brand as a case study to discuss female choice sexuality and the sex icon blonde bombshells that have come before her. Her recent album cover, but more specifically the alternate version supposedly “approved by god,” references a picture of Marilyn Monroe, an icon of the sexual liberation movement who unfortunately cannot be mentioned without her male icon counterpart, Hugh Hefner. Sabrina’s lolita, sexy baby aesthetic can also not be discussed without mention of incest, which is effectively the cradle of sexual politics, particularly in American culture. Is the recent uptick in women returning to “feminine” aesthetics rather just a result of men’s beloved fetishisation of childlike and paedophilic ideals? I also go into Dworkin’s idea of sexual intelligence, an integral but almost unattainable part of women’s rights, and how we can perhaps go about fixing the wrongs of the “unfinished” sexual liberation movement.
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References ~
Armstrong L, (1996) “Rocking The Cradle of Sexual Politics: What Happened When Women Said Incest” Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Dworkin A, (1978) “Right Wing Women” Perigee Books
Hurley J, (2024) “your fave is selling a pedophilic fantasy” Jade Fax, Substack
Perry L, (2022) “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution” Polity Books
Rush F, (1971) “The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View” Speech, presented at 1971 New York Radical Feminists Rape Conference
Survivors’ Network (2023) “What we learned from Pamela Anderson’s ‘A Love Story’ Documentary”
The subculture of mid-2000s pop punk is much more misogynistic than we remember. We’ve all heard about the emo band members getting accused of predatory behaviour in the past few years, but what was it about this genre of music that made performers so inclined to ask minors for nudes over Snapchat? Moreover, despite its devout misogyny, why were so many young women (me included!) still drawn to the genre? When looking back on this time, Paramore singer Hayley Williams becomes a beacon of female light in the crowd of guyliner adorned, “girl jeans” wearing metrosexual emo band members. So, let’s delve into the Misery Business that was 2000s emo music.
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References ~
Benjamin S, (2017) “How Mid-2000s Emo Groomed Underage Girls and Poisoned Teen Boys” Meanjin
de Boise S, (2014) “Cheer up emo kid: rethinking the ‘crisis of masculinity’ in emo” Popular Music
Hopper J, (2003) “Where the Girls Aren’t” Rookie
Payne C, (2023) “Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008” Dey Street Books
Pelly R, (2017) “Unraveling the Sexism of Emo’s Third Wave” Pitchfork
Powers A, (2015) “The Cruel Truth About Rock and Roll” NPR
Sherman M, (2020) “The Miserable Business of Emo Masculinity” Jezebal
Honourable mention: Abdurraqib H, (2017) “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us” Two Dollar Radio
In today’s episode we’re discussing the connections between feminism and veganism, by focusing on the book ‘The Sexual Politics of Meat’ by Carol J. Adams. In particular, I wanted to talk about the masculinisation of meat and how it relates to male and white supremacy. We’re also going into the term ‘absent referent’ to discuss how the treatment of women and animals is oftentimes similar. From non-technological societies to a Carl’s Jr Super Bowl ad, how has meat-eating upheld the patriarchy?
(Sorry for the late release, technological issues...)
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References ~
Adams CJ, (2025) “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critique, 35th Anniversary Edition” Bloomsbury Publishing
BBC, (2020) “Why black Americans are more likely to be vegan”
Berg N, (2019) “Drive-thru brothels: why cities are building ‘sexual infrastructure’” The Guardian
Deckha M, (2020) “Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders” University of Toronto Press
Enochs E, (2018) “To Uphold My Feminist Values, I Went Vegan” The Establishment
Gregory D, (1968) “The Shadow That Scares Me” Doubleday
Leghorn L & Roodkowsky M, (1977) “Who Really Starves? Women and World Hunger” Friendship Press
Slade J & Alleyne E, (2021) “The Psychological Impact of Slaughterhouse Employment: A Systematic Literature Review” Trauma Violence Abuse
@anotheranarchistdyke StoryGraph review of The Sexual Politics of Meat
Chapters~
00:00 My Experience w/ Veganism
8:50 The Sexual Politics of Meat
11:50 Meat as Masculine
20:11 The Racialised Politics of Meat
28:08 Economy, Gender, & Meat
30:23 The Absent Referent and Sexualised Animals
38:07 Similarities & Connections Between Veganism & Feminism
Another book review episode this week! I'll be talking about two really good philosophical books about sex in the modern age and from different feminist perspectives. I'm also discussing Julia Fox's memoir and how it was literally traumatising, as well as two dystopian books, including the new Hunger Games!
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Feb-Mar Books ~
00:00 Intro
2:30 The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivisan
19:42 The Agony of Eros by Byung-chul Han
36:45 Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
39:05 Down the Drain by Julia Fox
42:14 Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
47:49 You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson
Feminism often gets the criticism of having a very white history. In this episode, I’ll be discussing some prominent feminist thinkers, their respective waves, and the ethnocentrism which at times skewed their analyses to the West. Liberal feminism specifically is very based in the rights of white women only, but I’ll also be discussing how liberalism itself is inherently damaging and would need to be eradicated for any true social revolution. The many different branches of feminism and our obsession with identity politics has also created fertile ground for so much disagreement between groups who for the most part do agree with each other, such as radical, Marxist, and intersectional feminists. I also discuss how more than one idea can be true at once and how feminist groups should attempt to come together to reach our similar goals.
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Resources ~
Anonymous, (2025) “Surviving in Silence: Aboriginal Women’s Resistance to Rape and Sex-Based Violence” Issue 1, Total Woman Victory
Caine B, (2024) “Kate Millett pioneered the term ‘sexual politics’ and explained the links between sex and power. Her book changed my life” The Conversation
Hooks B, (2004) ‘The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love’ Washington Square Press
Lee K, (2021) “Simone de Beauvoir” Woman is a Rational Animal, The University of Chicago
Mills E & Koyle KM, (2024) “Race, Pseudoscience, and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” Circulating Now, National Library of Medicine
Pardis, (2025) “The Poverty of Sex” Issue 2, Total Woman Victory
Patel S, (2025) “The Sex Contradiction” Issue 2, Total Woman Victory
Sankara T, (1987) “Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle” Pathfinder Press
Thompson K, (2023) “Postmodern Feminism” Revise Sociology
Chapters ~
Intro
Strands of Feminism & Interconnectedness
Some Prominent Feminist Thinkers
On Liberalism
Notable Essays from Total Woman Victory
TikTok popularised post-feminist archetypes, from chronic lyme disease havers, to the Salem witch trial nostalgists, and the high value man attracters… what do they all have in common? An obsession with the concept of feminine energy. In this episode we discuss the quite conservative TikTok trends related to finding your inner feminine essence, how and why they came about and the way in which they attempt to undo centuries of feminist progress. Grab your tarot cards and beef tallow, we’re going to heal our inner feminine 🧘♀️
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Resources ~
Christie SG, (2025) “Among the Post-Feminists: From revolutionaries to realists” The Point Mag
de Beauvoir S, (1949) “ The Second Sex” Librairie Gallimard
Jung J, (2022) “I have a problem with TikTok feminism” On Dit Magazine
Kjellgren A, (2023) “The myth of Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and the anthropological discourse on myth” History of European Ideas
Matsen F, (2022) “#WitchTok; An Examination of Female Empowerment And An Emphasis On The Creation of the ‘Witchy Aesthetic’” State University of New York
For more about 2010s feminism, listen to my episode “Everyone Get More Woke Now! (Internet Culture and Social Justice Warriors)”
Chapters ~
00:00 Intro & What is Post-Feminism?
16:54 Archetype #1: The Fragile, Diseased Woman
27:32 Archetype #2: The Witch Trial Nostalgist
36:34 Archetype #3: The Female Dating Strategist
48:43 Takeaways Re: TikTok Feminism
Somewhat of a filler episode this week discussing how dangerous working in customer service roles has become for young people, especially women. With violent customers increasing after the pandemic and sexual harassment becoming pervasive in the industry, is it even safe for teenagers to be working these jobs anymore? Also telling some personal anecdotes from my experience and some submitted by listeners too!
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Resources ~
Long K, (2025) “Burnout in the Australian Retail Industry: Addressing Physical and Psychosocial Risks for 2025” Australian Retailers Association
Trioli V, (2024) “Decades ago, I learned the perks and pitfalls of paid work. So what do today's young Australians want from employment?” ABC
BBC (2024) “UK shop workers ‘targets’ as abuse and attacks soar”
Motorola Solutions (2024) “The state of retail worker safety in Australia and New Zealand”
National Retail Association (2020) “Abuse is Forcing Workers Out of Retail”
The University of Sydney (2024) “Sexual harassment rife in retail work”
This episode is a radical and intersectional feminist analysis of BDSM and how violent sex has been completely normalised by the omnipresence of pornography. I’ve been describing this as my magnum opus because it’s funny but ALSO because unfortunately, there is a huge lack of discussions about the naturalisation of patriarchy-informed sex! I’ll be using a mix of research-based, theoretical, and anecdotal evidence to back up my claims. I hope you learn something new and, like me, can emancipate yourself from patriarchal sex. Reading list below denoted by 🚩!
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Resources ~
Abrams M, et al. (2022) ‘Childhood abuse and sadomasochism: New insights’ Sexologies
Baillie R, (2012) ‘Children accessing porn younger: study’ ABC News
Bows H & Herring J, (2022) ’Rough Sex and the Criminal Law: Global Perspectives’ Emerald Publishing 🚩
Davis C, (2024) ‘Do you not like sex or do you just not like patriarchal sex?’ Matriarchal Blessing, Substack
Deckha M, (2007) ‘Pain, Pleasure, and Consenting Women: Exploring Feminist Responses to S/M and Its Legal Regulation in Canada through Jelineks the Piano Teacher’ Harvard Journal of Law & Gender
Farley M, (1993) ‘Ten Lies About Sadomasochism’ Sinister Wisdom 🚩
Gathings M & Parrotta K, (2013) ‘The Use of Gendered Narratives in the Courtroom: Constructing an Identity Worthy of Leniency’ Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Han BC, (2012) ‘The Agony of Eros’ MIT Press
Hanna C, (2001) ‘Sex is not a sport: Consent and violence in criminal law’ Boston College Law review
Hooks B, (2004) ‘The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love’ Washington Square Press 🚩 (if man)
Lorde A, (1985) ‘I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings’ Oxford University Press 🚩
MacKinnon C, (1989) ‘Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: “Pleasure under Patriarchy” The University of Chicago Press
Murphy M, (2014) ‘bell hooks Will Save Us All From the Long Slow Death That is Popular Feminism’ Feminist Current
Perry L, (2022) ‘The Case Against the Sexual Revolution’ Polity
Snape A, (2020) ‘The BDSM Community Is Worried About Changes to the Domestic Abuse Bill’ Vice
Srinivasan A, (2021) ‘The Right to Sex’ Farrar, Straus and Giroux 🚩
Stansfield R & Williams K, (2021) ‘Coercive control between intimate partners: An application to nonfatal strangulation’ Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Sasha S. Graham @sistaseperatist TikTok ‘The New Sexual Harassment Trend’
Posts from r/antikink and r/pornismisogyny
Recently, I saw an article about marijuana use in men leading to an increased risk of spontaneous abortion, so I wanted to look more into the type and frequency of birth defects caused by men. In this episode we’ll be discussing the gendered basis of infertility, the assumption that the woman is always the “defective” one, and looking into a case study in Pakistan to understand how badly this can affect women worldwide. I also neededdd to talk about the hypocrisy with blaming women for waiting too long to have kids, when paternal age can actually be just as damaging. Hope you’ll learn something new!
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Resources ~
Auteri S, (2018) “People Always Assume Infertility Is the Woman’s Fault” Vice
Fang Y, et. al (2020) “Effect of paternal age on offspring birth defects: a systematic review and meta-analysis” Aging (Albany NY)
Harlow AF, et. al (2021) “Male Preconception Marijuana Use and Spontaneous Abortion: A Prospective Cohort Study” Epidemiology
Mothuk A, (2023) “The perils of putting off fatherhood: why it poses risks to children’s physical and mental health” The Guardian
Mumtaz Z, et. al (2013) “Understanding the impact of gendered roles on the experiences of infertility amongst men and women in Punjab” Reproductive Health
Skiadas C, (2022) “Did You Know? Infertility Affects Men and Women Equally” Penn Medicine, Lancaster General Health
Vignozzi L, (2024) “Why couple infertility is historically a female-driven problem?” Andrology
In this week’s ep we’re talking about male-directed films about women. What inspired this mainly was my month long depressive spiral after I saw Poor Things last year. I’ll also be discussing some other somewhat recent releases: Anora, Nosferatu, and The Worst Person in the World, their marketing as supposed ‘feminist’ films and the actual varying degrees of misogyny present throughout. No male directors on set, please!
(I realise I kept pronouncing ‘Joachim’ like ‘Joaquim’… ignore)
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Resources ~
Bastien AJ, (2024) “Is Poor Things the Best We Can Do For Female Sexuality Onscreen?” Vulture
Lanier A, (2025) “The Women Are the Problem: The Enduring Mistake of ‘Nosferatu’ and Misogyny” Pajiba
Lawrence R, (2024) “The Vampire & Queerness in 19th Century Gothic Literature” Blog post
Siddiqi A, (2022) “Memento Millennial” Substack essay
Squire S, (2022) “The Worst Person in the World—commentary on sexism, love and being lost in beautiful film” Socialist Worker
Urzaiz BG, (2022) “The Worst Person in the World – The problematic cliché of the zany female thirtysomething” El Pais
The Punk Theory, (2025) “Book vs. Movie: Poor Things” Blog post
Yeh SSC, (2015) “The Beast Within: Gothic Vampirisim in the 19th Century” McGill University
Hiiii welcome to the first bonus episode. I'm talking about the books I read in Jan. Feedback on doing video episodes appreciated 😁🤞
(sorry about the audio quality on this one!)
~ Jan Books ~
00:00 Upstream by Mary Oliver
10:04 The Kites by Romain Gary
15:26 Females by Andrea Long Chu
23:49 The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams
27:41 Madonna In A Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
Victoria and I have been deep in the internet fandom trenches for a decade, so we're talking about being raised by the internet and how it was actually beneficial for our knowledge of the world. We discuss our very early introduction to internet culture, leading into 2010s tumblr feminism and social justice warriors and how we think the push of alt right ideas re-emerged online (blame pewdiepie)...
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Resources ~
Ewans H, (2019) “The Strange Decade in Online Feminism” Vice
Hannell B, (2024) “How Tumblr raised a generation of feminists” The Conversation
Herbst A, (2018) “How the Term “Social Justice Warrior’ Became an Insult” Foundation for Economic Education
Massanari AL & Chess S, (2018) “Attack of the 50-foot social justice warrior: the discursive construction of SJW memes as the monstrous feminine” Feminist Media Studies
michi @pinkbinz Tik Tok “pewdiepie and the meme-ification of hate”
kayla @kaylalane Substack “a brief history of misogyny in fandom culture”
I hate marriage - the vote that won on last week’s poll for this week’s episode! In this episode, I’ll be discussing marriage abolitionism under the teachings of Clementine Ford in her book “I Don’t”. This is one of my favourite books ever and was revolutionary in introducing me to feminist theory and giving me an understanding of how the patriarchy permeates every aspect of our lives. I hope I can convince you to not get married with this episode, but if not, give her book a read and our combined efforts might be enough…
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Resources ~
Ford C, (2023) “I Don’t: The Case Against Marriage”
Hull KE, et al. (2010) “The Changing Landscape of Love and Marriage” Contexts (Berkeley Calif)
Tyler M, (2015) “Saying “I Don’t”: Moving beyond marriage”, pp 181-199 Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism
s/o to Paris Mwendwa Substack essays too
Unfortunately, MAFS is back on Australian TV. Though I’ve personally never watched it, a certain groom has been permeating my t TikTok fyp. In this episode we talk about the sheer volume of relationship-based reality TV shows and the impact they can have on real life relationships. I’ve also noticed a trend of reality shows profiting off of women’s suffering and the negative effects these shows can have on the women consuming them. I hope you learn something new!
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References ~
ACMA Report: Viewer response to reality television in Australia (2021)
Birdsall N & Keay S, (2018) “Love Island and other reality TV shows are helping to normalise domestic abuse” The Conversation
Boateng J, (2023) “The Perception of Intimacy: Are Dating Reality TV Shows Affecting Relationships?” Canadian Journal of Family and Youth
Campbell TC, (2024) “Why Are Reality Dating Shows Pushing Marriage as the Prize?” Medium
Cholakova M, (2023) “Dating Shows Have Killed My Perception of Love” The Link Newspaper
Hall R, (2021) “Women on reality TV shows get far more abuse online than men – study” The Guardian
Razavi A, (2023) “Let’s talk about it: Women’s portrayal in reality TV” Redwood Bark
Thomas J, (2021) “Reality TV’s Obsession with Female Suffering” FEM Magazine
Erika & I met when we both tried to buy tickets to the Singaporean BTS concert in 2018. So, in this episode we talk about Korean history and the current political climate as a barrier to so-called “western” feminism. We also touch on the uniqueness of South Korean beauty standards promoted particularly by K-Pop and the associated dangers for women in the industry. We hope you’ll learn something new!
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Reources ~
Azizah N & Dwiyanti A, (2021) “South Korea in Reconstructing Masculinity as Brand Image of the State’s Economic Diplomacy” Sociology & Technology
De Souza N, (2020) “The Nth Room case and modern slavery in the digital space” The Lowey Institute
Handley E, (2024) “What are the South Korean origins of the feminist 4B movement rising in the United States?” ABC
Jones L, (2021) “Crafted for the Male Gaze: Gender Discrimination in the K-Pop Industry” Journal of International Women’s Studies
Jung KJ, (2024) “’Gender Wars’ and populist politics in South Korea” Women’s Studies International Forum
Kim KA, (1997) “Nationalism: An Advocate of, or a Barrier to, Feminism in South Korea” Women’s Studies International Forum
Lee SH, (2024) “Anti-Gender Politics, Economic Insecurity, and Right-Wing Populism: The Rise of Modern Sexism among Young Men in South Korea” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
Mackenzie J & Choi LH, (2024) “Inside the deepfake porn crisis engulfing Korean schools” BBC
Hii everyone! In this episode we’ll be delving into different branches of feminist theory and particularly discussing the criticisms surrounding choice feminism. I’ll be outlining the problems with labelling sex work as a feminist choice and the oxymoron which is “ethical” porn. I hope you learn something new!
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Resources ~
Fahs B, (2024) “The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Ferguson ML, (2010) “Choice Feminism and the Fear of Politics” Perspectives on Politics
Fonseca E, (2020) “The problem with the phrase ‘sex work is work’” Proletarian Feminist, Medium
Griffin G, (2017) “A Dictionary of Gender Studies”
Macieira-Fielding E, (2024) “Lily Phillips’ ‘I Slept With 100 Men in One Day’ documentary made me very sad.” The New Feminist
Mascolo R, (2024) “A Feminist Perspective on Sex Work” Journal of Politics and International Affairs
Renshaw L, et al. (2015) “Migrant sex workers in Australia” AIC Reports, Research and Public Policy Series
Hi everyone, in this first episode we'll be discussing gender as a social construct. I’ll touch on the increase of "feminine" and "masculine" energy on social media, Mark Zuckerberg, and the gendered hunter-gatherer myth. I hope you learn something new :3
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References ~
Anderson A, et. al (2023) “The Myth of Man The Hunter: Women’s contributions to the hunt across ethnographic contexts”
Dworkin A, (1983) “I Want a Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape”
Ellis P, (2025) “What the Zuck is ‘Masculine Energy?’” Men’s Health
Firestone S, (1970) “The Dialectic of Sex”
