Best Feminist Critique Podcasts (2024)

The Aarey Forest has been on the frontlines of a battle between environmental/indigenous activists and the State since 2014, the narrative offers a moment of possibility towards a different future.

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Episode 86: Ballerina Farm and the Reality of a Trad Lifestyle 37:26

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Ballerina Farm are the Trad lifestyle family vloggers going viral after a Times interview revealed the 'farm wife' had given up ballet at Juilliard to begin having her first of eight children with her husband, who is heir to a billion dollar airline. We discuss the labour-intensive reality of farm work, the literal dirt involved in domestic labour …

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Episode 85: American Politics in Meltdown 32:51

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With one presidential candidate nearly assassinated and another dropping out of the race altogether, we review the meltdown of U.S politics over the last fortnight. We also discuss JD Vance’s comments about only having as many votes as you have children, Kamala Harris's margaritas with senior management vibes, and we give our prediction that CIA as…

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Epside 84: Puberty Blockers and Medical Violence Against Gay People 1:01:16

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting last week announced Labour will uphold the UK ban on puberty blockers. We discuss Wes's political history of taking flack from LGBT groups, explore why gender non-conforming kids might view puberty blockers as a barrier to the onslaught of demonisation that gender non-conformity elicits (beyond the usual reason of a M…

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Episode 83: General Election Aftermath and the State of the UK 47:42

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We discuss the first week of Keir Starmer’s Prime Ministership, and how if we scratch what seems to be a social democratic measure, we find a neoliberal one. How lowball ambition will not change the United Kingdom’s housing crisis or stagnant economy, especially given we now have a lower GDP than the state of Mississippi. Who will the next Tory lea…

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Episode 82: The Shakespearean Tragedy of Joe Biden 49:04

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The recent Trump vs. Biden televised debate has led to calls for President Joe Biden to be replaced ahead of the 2024 U.S Election later this year. In the first half of this episode, we discuss Joe Biden's political career, and in the latter half we cover the almost Shakespearean tragedy of his life course, from hawkish statesman who suffered trage…

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Feminist Critique of Militarism

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Preeti Shekar interviews Nigerian feminist scholar Amina Mama, chair of Gender and Women's Studies at U.C. Davis and a former board member of the Global Fund for Women.

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Sustaining Cultural and Creative Spaces

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"So here I am! I get to be around all the kinds of people I like and enjoy, and who inspire me, motivate me, and make me happy. But I am also the poorest, the brokest, I’ve been in my whole life. In the beauty business, I made money because I was really good. This is a challenge, but I made the sacrifice and I’m probably the happiest that I’ve been…

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Reflections of Activistas

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Excerpted here are the voices of young activistas who redefine what it means to be part of the new majority as women of color.

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Rinku Sen: Organizing for Racial Justice

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"Gender constructions themselves are racialized. Our overarching notion of what is a good man and what is a good woman, are based on white people being good people and people of color being bad people."

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Rising Up: An Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar and Rinku Sen

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Preeti Gamzeh interviews veteran radio journalist and author Sonali Kolhatkar on her new book Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice.

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Episode 81: The Labour Party and Transgenderism 1:08:00

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It is just one week before the UK General Election is held on July 4th, tipped to be won by the Labour Party. We discuss Labour's relationship to Trans, the function of their 'two sides' rhetoric, and why Jeremy Corbyn given his own experiences should perhaps feel some sympathy towards gender critical feminists. Plus, the Left's radio silence over …

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Episode 80: The Rightward Shift in Europe and Disintegration of Social Fabric 39:06

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We discuss the rightward political shift in Europe, reflected in both the recent EU election results, and the rise of Nigel Farage's Reform party in the UK this week. Jen gives her prediction that Marine Le Pen will win the French election, and explains why it is in part due to tactical errors of the Left. Plus, how Nigel Farage is pitching himself…

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Episode 79: UK Election Special 53:33

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The UK General Election is set for July 4th 2024 and we face the situation of Keir Starmer's Labour Party being to the right of the Tories on some questions, the peril of electing a Deputy PM in Angela Raynor who has previously supported obvious perverts, and almost zero incentive for young people to vote for either of the two main parties, given w…

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Episode 78: The Links Between Autism, Adolescence, and Transgenderism 57:52

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This episode discusses the baptism by fire that is female adolescence, and how if autism is added into that mix, Transgenderism starts to look like an available escape hatch for young girls who are socially non-conforming - one that has the additional bonus of alleviating the anxiety of surrounding adults. We discuss the psychoanalytic concept of '…

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Beyond Gay Marriage

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“I absolutely think housing for poor, homeless, and low-income queer folks is a huge issue for us, as is doing anti-violence work...” —Kenyon Farrow,

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From the Camps to the Neighborhoods

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By Choy

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Organizing the New Majority

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Episode 77: A Marxist Critique of Men in Women's Prisons and Re-Traumatisation of a Traumatised Population 51:18

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This episode is on the contemporary far-Left's turn away from the working-class towards the lumpen proletariat - except in the case of criminalised lumpen women. We discuss how the far-Left has adopted 'pet' lumpen proletariat groups (mentally ill men who identify as women, male asylum seekers, male criminals, men who are too dysfunctional to work,…

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Episode 76: Are We Winning on Trans? 1:11:20

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Shay Woulahan joins RedFem this week, standing in as co-host for Jen (who is under the weather), to discuss where we are at in regard to defeating gender ideology. Are we returning to 'true trans'? Is Trans becoming cringe and uncool amongst Gen Alpha (young teenagers) as much as the internet suggests? We comment on the new historical revisionism b…

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Episode 75: Eurovision's Queer Stupidity and Political Lesbianism as Self-ID 1:51:44

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We talk about the queer politics of Eurovision and the role of infantilism as an attempt to foreclose political criticism and how no one (not even Graham Norton) can keep up pronoun pretences for more than 5 minutes. We also discuss the flattening effect of the LGBT paradigm, our newly discovered term 'KERF' (Kink Exclusionary Radical Feminist), th…

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Episode 74: Politics Flattening Personhood 1:03:38

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We discuss how political activism can flatten the personality or erode personal life, and how the Left's narrowing of subjectivity, or ignoring subjective experience, created a space for postmodernism, and its over focus on subjectivity, carte blanche to thrive on the Left. We also comment on why the student Palestine protests are taking the form t…

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Episode 73: On Woke Student Protest Tactics 36:02

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We discuss the tactics of the student protests taking place across campuses in the United States and compare them to similar protests over Israel's military assaults on Gaza a decade and a half ago. Topics include: the utopianism of thinking it's possible to create a space outside of society and how this kind of anarchist political tendency lends i…

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History of Exploitation: from Slavery to Domestic Work

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An interview with Sheila Bapat “The roots of domestic work are deeply connected to the history of slavery in the U.S. It’s no accident that a vast majority of domestic workers were African American women to begin with, and increasingly now, immigrant women of color.”

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Episode 72: No Future? The Birth Rate Collapse 1:16:44

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Women in greater and greater numbers are choosing not to have children. We discuss the reasons why, both material and ideological, and how the internet, particularly apps like TikTok, have removed the mystery of different lifestyles and bashed down the once private walls of the nuclear family. Online, the Red Pill 'no eggs' rhetoric attempting to s…

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Episode 71: Moral Monsters of the Cass Review 1:34:12

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The release of the Cass Review last week on the treatment of 'trans' children in the NHS has caused huge waves and responses that indicate where we're heading. We discuss its moral inditement of the PMC, their rapidly devalued sunk cost, and the media classes witch-hunting of women who acted to protect children before Cass. This episode includes co…

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Episode 70: On Euthanasia and Assisted Dying 46:48

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We discuss the political and moral quandaries around euthanasia, otherwise known as medical assistance in dying. How what was effectively a liberal 'harm reduction' policy of assisted dying for the terminally ill, later the elderly and frail, has now expanded its application towards those living with a physical disability or mental health issue. Th…

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Episode 69: Sexual Crisis on the Trad Right (re Hilary Crowder) 1:02:14

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The abandonment, smearing, and legal harassment of Hilary Crowder by her ex-husband, rightwing commentator and supposed Trad Christian Steven Crowder, is causing a crisis in sexual politics amongst the rightwing. Why? Because Hilary Crowder is the epitome of a Trad woman, a virgin-until-marriage, deeply religious, stay-at-home mother, and yet she's…

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The Earth Is the Only One Telling the Truth

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"The Kingdom of Heaven in a Single Blade of Grass. An excerpt from The Earth Is the Only One Telling the Truth by Kelly Curry ...the apocalypse has already happened then that means that we are living in the beginning... THIS is the beginning. We are standing in the Garden of Eden... again...

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Penn Loh: EJ and TJ

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By Loh

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Mother from Another... (Planet)

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Mother from Another…” is a story from Jess Clarke’s grand opus, “Imagining Liberation.” This episode takes place in Mendocino CA in 1970.

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Episode 68: Woke Race and Disability Politics of 'Tell Them You Love Me' 1:03:48

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Love affair or sexual abuse? That is the question at the heart of 'Tell Them You Love Me' (available on Sky, NOW, and Apple TV), a documentary on woke Philosophy Professor Anna Stubblefield, who was convicted of sexually abusing a student, after gaining access to him (Derrick) through the debunked method of 'facilitated communication'. We discuss t…

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Episode 67: On Girl Boss Feminism 42:22

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We steelman the argument for 'girl boss feminism' as a way for some women to achieve financial independence and freedom from men and the family under capitalism. Much of the logic of 'lean in' feminism, as epitomised by former Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg, is about accruing enough capital as a woman to afford privately the things socialism would ot…

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Pawn Stars: Making History 53:29

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Hi, we're the Uncanny Valley Girls and this is our pawn shop episode. We work here with our Old Man, and our son, Big Hoss. Everything in here has a story and a price. One thing I've learned after 21 years, you never know what is going to come through that door! Music by Gab Grieco and Shay Greco Instagram: @uncannyvalleygirlspod…

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Episode 66: Where is Kate Middleton? 42:52

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Why is the Royal Family struggling to produce a photo of Kate Middleton? We suggest there are multiple threads to whatever crisis and stalemate is going behind closed doors at Kensington Palace (specifically, in all likelihood; an affair, a looming divorce, Kate's mystery illness, and a King on his way out). It is a cause for concern if a woman - a…

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Episode 65: Extra Episode! ReesaTeesa (With Spoilers) and Spotting Red Flags in Dating 37:14

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We again this week discuss TikTok's ReesaTeesa's mega viral story series 'Who TF Did I Marry?', this time with spoilers and a full discussion of modern dating's potential for deception. The episode includes how to spot red flags and not need to understand them (but use them as an immediate guide), questions to elicit candid answers on dates, accept…

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Feminist Perspectives on International Women-s Day Strike, Cinzia Arruzza Interviewed by Doug Henwood

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"We want to make visible not only the work that women do in the workplace but also outside--in the sphere of social reproduction."

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Jon & K*** Plus 8 47:51

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This week the girls dip their toes into murky waters, disucssing their first TLC show: Jon & Kate Plus 8. Discussions include fertilization methods, the origin of Karens, and the reality TV space race. Music by Gab Grieco and Shay Greco Instagram: @uncannyvalleygirlspodBy Lily Carroll and Rachel Dugdell

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Episode 64: TikTok's ReesaTeesa Phenom and Male Con Artistry 34:38

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We comment (without spoilers) on TikTik's viral 51-part series 'Who TF Did I Marry?' by ReesaTeesa, an American working-class woman from Atlanta. Discussion includes how marriage is increasingly an ambition of and gateway into the middle-class, sibling rivalry for twins, why your place in birth order matters, and the relationship between failed nar…

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Episode 63: Should Feminists Work With the Left? pt. 2 (leftwing men are not leftwing regarding women) 40:42

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We put forward a central problem for feminists working with the Left, specifically, that leftwing men are not at all leftwing when it comes to women and women's issues. Suddenly, leftwing men, who dominate the Left both in numbers and ideologically, are no longer social constructionists, but total naturalists and genetic determinists, immediately w…

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Plato said you’re my soulmate <3 57:31

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Happy Valentine's day, valley girls!!! Listen to the ones you love (us) discuss soulmates and reality television. Digressions include the discursive history of love, ABC's famed bachelor franchise, and (of course) quantum physics. Music by Gab Grieco and Shay Greco Instagram: @uncannyvalleygirlspodBy Lily Carroll and Rachel Dugdell

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Episode 62: Should Feminists Work With the Left? pt. 1 1:05:12

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We delve into the sheer impossibility of feminists working with the political Left, overwhelmingly due to the door being slammed by the Left itself. By the Left we mean socialist groups and communist parties, not liberal or rightwing Labour parties i.e the radical leftwing who have a vision to liberate humanity (given that feminists seek to liberat…

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Episode 61: In Defence of Taylor Swift 33:12

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We mount a defence of Taylor Swift and the barrage of inane criticism she receives online. We discuss 'girl culture', how fandoms are replacing sub-cultures, and how people and things idolised by women are so often denigrated. Now that Swift's lawyers have intervened to stop the sexualised 'deep fake' images of her appearing on Twitter, we hope tha…

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Carl Anthony on Earth Day: Then and Now

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“Because of the white bias of the environmental movement, there was almost no talk about cities, even though 85 percent of the population of the United States lived in cities and metropolitan area.”

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Free Wendy Williams 56:40

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How you doin'? This week the girls discuss radio and daytime icon, Wendy Williams. They touch on her start reading tabloids on fm radio, her blunt opinions in "Ask Wendy," and her current financial guardianship. #freewendy Music by Gab Grieco and Shay Greco Instagram: @uncannyvalleygirlspod

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Episode 60: What Age Should the Age of Consent Be? 43:44

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We discuss the age of consent laws in the UK (currently 16) and present the case for the age of consent being raised to 18, with a two-year close in age exemption (so that teenagers could date other teenagers of a similar age i.e their peers). We also try to 'steelman' the arguments against. Could there be feminist arguments against raising the age…

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Episode 59: Polyamory Is Not Real 1:05:34

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This episode discusses polyamory and makes the claim it is ultimately not a real relationship formation by any measure, representing instead a lack of boundaries and disorganised attachment styles, subsequently making it a performance attractive to sexual losers i.e those considered to be 'low-value' within the sexual marketplace. We begin with the…

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Playing dead on 'Whodunnit?' 56:08

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In this episode, the girls discuss Whodunnit? - the clue-inspired murder mystery complete with a British butler, Giles, as host. They discuss the show's sister-franchise (CSI), playing your own corpse, and the forensic gaze. Oh and whodunnit? Joey Graceffa. Music by Gab Grieco and Shay Greco Instagram: @uncannyvalleygirlspod…

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Episode 58: Why Are Lesbian Venues so Difficult to Maintain? 39:56

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We talk about how the infantilisation of LGBTQ+ politics has helped kill off lesbian nightlife and its effects. Including, the awkwardness of asexual discos, gay bars becoming popular with straight people and then inevitably changing, and the difficulty of maintaining a policy that only allows women through the door in the era of gender identity. W…

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