Posts Tagged ‘feminism’

Us in the early(ish) days of the podcast.

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We reflect on 10 years of our podcast, including:

  • A slight rebrand of our podcast.
  • How our politics have changed over the last 10 years.
  • Progress for social movements since we started the podcast.
  • The movie Don’t Look Up (Netflix) and responding to climate change.
  • The artists we’ve played the most on the show.
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Clips:

My Brand by Sole and DJ Pain 1; Peep Show ‘Johnson Over For Dinner’ – Series 1, Episode 4; Kath and Kim ‘Come in’; Bezos 2 by Bo Burnham from ‘Inside’ (Netflix); Dumb Things by AB Original and Paul Kelly; I Think You Should Leave, Season 1 – photocopier sketch (Netflix); I Spent the Winter Writing Songs About Getting Better by Proper.

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Image from: comingsoon.net

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We discuss the TV show The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and themes of class, gender and body image. We also look into the Love Your Body and Body Positivity movements.

Also covered is: living in the North, the punitive shut down of public housing apartment blocks across Melbourne and connections with animal issues, Bitchy Shitshow podcast, plus Nick’s top 10 political albums.

Book recommendation:

Dead Men Tell No Tales by Dylan Howard, James Robertson, and Melissa Cronin.

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Clips:

Bugzy Malone ft JP Cooper ‘Ordinary People’, Lowkey ‘Tell Me Why’, Bad Cop, Bad CopSimple Girl’.

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womenforwomenfrance.org

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Katie is joined by Sarah McGrath from Women for Women France and they discuss increased rates of family violence during the coronavirus lockdown and the different responses to the issue in France compared to Australia.

Other topics covered in the discussion are: the many different forms that family violence takes and the importance of cultural change, as well as services and education focusing on perpetrators.

Katie also briefly mentions the Australian Unions campaign for rebuilding the economy and restoring secure jobs in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.

Clips:

NOFX ‘The Marxist Brothers’, Maisie PetersSmile’.

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The characters Cheryl and Betty from the show Riverdale (Photo: Diyah Pera/The CW).

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We analyse the representations of gender in the TV shows Riverdale, The Morning Show, Big Little Lies and You, as well as the movie Bombshell.

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Clips:

Taylor SwiftThe Man’, Petrol GirlsSurvivor’.

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