Best BUZZKILL Pod Podcasts (2024)

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Indiana Rules Abortion Is a Religious Right With Laurie Kilmartin & Tracy Weitz 1:13:07

6d ago1:13:07

1:13:07

The Feminist Buzzkills are in FULL rage mode this week as our heads are still spinning from Arizona’s latest assault on people with a uterus. The ghouls on Arizona’s Supreme Court ruled that an 1864 abortion ban will be enforced in less than TWO WEEKS. Plus, what does it mean when three judges agree that Indiana’s near-total abortion ban does in fa…

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The Florida Giveth and the Florida Taketh Away With Asha Dahya & Elizabeth Booker Houston 1:13:30

20d ago1:13:30

1:13:30

Full episode transcript HERE. What went down with bodily autonomy this week? The South is indeed Southing! The Florida Supreme Court hit the Sunshiners where it hurts– right in the ute. We bring you all the tea on what the Florida six-week ban means for abortion seekers throughout the South. BUT can the state’s ballot initiative save the day? AND w…

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Buzzkills from SCOTUS: Breaking Down the Mifepristone Oral Arguments with Dr. Michele Goodwin 50:30

29d ago50:30

50:30

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills were at SCOTUS for the abortion pill, AKA Mifepristone, oral arguments with the Abortion Access Front team and some dope-ass volunteers! We took to the streets of DC with rage, force, and Beyoncé on full blast. If you haven’t heard us rant about it a million times already, our beloved LIFE-SAVING…

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The Scare Tactics of the Anti-abortion Mob With E.R. Fightmaster & Tània Verge 1:20:36

1M ago1:20:36

1:20:36

Full episode transcript HERE. Lizz is back! This week’s secret words are “Fightmaster” and “Catalonia” – and they’re both making this world a much doper and safer place for folks with uteruses. Your Feminist Buzzkills are ranting and raging about the anti-abortion movement’s talent for inventing fake problems to solve, and then miraculously solving…

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Blinded by Our Love for Abortion Providers With Melissa Grant & Kristin Hady 59:18

2M ago59:18

59:18

Full episode transcript HERE. Happy Abortion Provider Appreciation Week AND International Women’s Day! Lizz is still vacay-ing it up, so Abortion Access Front Head Writer Alyssa (AKA, Dooks) is holding it down with Moji again - lucky us! This week we’re reminding y’all why and how you should be supporting abortion providers year-round. We’re also s…

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Alabama’s IVF Problem: Incessant Vaginal Fuckery With Dr. Rebecca Gomperts & Subhah Agarwal 1:05:24

2M ago1:05:24

1:05:24

Full episode transcript HERE. Another podisode where we tear the patriarchy apart! Lizz is in vacay mode, but Moji is here with brilliant guest host and AAF Head Writer Alyssa Al-Dookhi, AKA Dooks. This week we decode all of the IVF chaos that’s going down in not-so-sweet Alabama. We drag, expose, and deep dive into Tom Parker, the judicial creeper…

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Unraveling The Impact of Denied Abortions With Dr. Diana Greene Foster 50:01

2M ago50:01

50:01

Full episode transcript HERE. Well, well, it’s not every day your Buzzkills are graced with a MacArthur Genius fellow, but today is NOT one of those days! Dr. Diana Foster Greene is in the pod house talking about her award-winning research paper, The Turnaway Study, which is a comprehensive look at the harms caused by folks being denied abortion ca…

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MINI-EPISODE: Two Abobo Pods Walk into a Bar... With Renee Bracey Sherman & Regina Mahone 17:03

3M ago17:03

17:03

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills are bringing y’all TWO abobo pods for the price of one (FREE.99)! YUP, Moji is joining forces with the geniuses behind the fresh new abortion podcast, The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion, AKA the amazing heroic Renee Bracey Sherman and her writing partner Regina Mahone, who is also an edito…

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PROJECT 2025: The Anti-Abortion Playbook With Gretchen Sisson & Dylan McKeever 1:14:14

3M ago1:14:14

1:14:14

Full episode transcript HERE. SAVE THE DATE: March 26th is the date the Supreme Court will hear the abortion pill (mifepristone) case! What does this mean? What quack evidence did the anti-abobo clowns drag in? The Buzzkills got you. And when the awful-est activists in the country aren’t in court trying to destroy us? They’re working tirelessly beh…

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Stop Trying to Make Abortion Trafficking a Thing With Shea Couleé & Anna Eskamani 1:13:08

3M ago1:13:08

1:13:08

CONTENT WARNING: Rape/Sexual assault Full episode transcript HERE. The anti-abortion ghouls are ghouling this week and the Feminist Buzzkills are exposing and Buzzkilling! WHERE DO WE BEGIN?! How can a SCOTUS case about a HERRING FISHERY possibly destroy abortion access? WTF is the “Chevron Doctrine?” What’s with the F’ed up trend of redefining hel…

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March for Life Madness 2024 With Kristin Hady & Grace Howard 1:14:42

3M ago1:14:42

1:14:42

Today’s weather in our nation’s capital was mostly patriarchy with scattered showers of dude-splaining, because today was the 50th annual MARCH FOR LIFE, the country’s biggest gathering of anti-abortion dickbags! Your Feminist Buzzkills watched so you don’t have to and we are naming, shaming, exposing and dragging the whole thing for filth, just th…

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Texas and Idaho Don’t Care if You Die. With Lauren Miller, Pamela Merritt & Emma Willmann 1:05:46

3M ago1:05:46

1:05:46

Full episode transcript HERE. New Year, New Pod Episode, Same Anti-Abortion Cruelty and Inhumanity! Happy 2024 fellow abobo warriors. Lizz is out this week but we got AAF comedy genius Alyssa “Dooks” Al-Dookhi holding down the fort with Moji, and they’re serving y’all all the tea we’ve been pissed about… *cough cough* we’re looking at you, Texas an…

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The Best, Worst and Weirdest Abortion News of 2023 1:02:21

4M ago1:02:21

1:02:21

Full episode transcript HERE. It's been a hellacious year in Abortlandia and on this last pod of the year, we are counting down the best, worst, AND the weirdest stories of 2023. Did we say the best ones? Yes, yes we did. Fueled by lethally spiked eggnog, we made our lists and checked them twice, figured out what’s naughty and nice, and we’re bring…

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How Many Wonder Women Does It Take To Save Abortion? With Lynda Carter, Kathryn Kolbert, Aisha Mills & Chris Geidner 1:21:08

4M ago1:21:08

1:21:08

STACKED POD ALERT: What a pod we have this week, Buzzkillians! In case you missed it, the fuckwads over at SCOTUS decided to take on the mifepristone abobo pill case. WTF does it all mean? Chris Geidner, the brilliant Law Dork himself, swoops in to translate it out of dorky law words and into plain English for us. What else could possibly be gettin…

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BOOM! Buzzkilled With Jessica Pieklo & Imani Gandy 35:38

5M ago35:38

35:38

Full episode transcript HERE. What happens when two of our favorite abortion law experts who ALSO host their own podcast come over to guest host OUR podcast? MAGIC, BABY! This week, THE badass Imani Gandy and Jessica Pieklo from the “Boom! Lawyered” podcast co-host with Moji, and the feminist rage is on 10000! They share how their friendship was lo…

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Holiday Tips for Standing up to Hateful Relatives! With Dr. Robin DiAngelo & Trae Crowder 59:14

5M ago59:14

59:14

Full episode transcript HERE. Happy Oh-Shit-It’s-The-Holidays, Buzzkillians! Are you bracing yourself for the holiday season? No need to fear – the Liberal Redneck, Trae Crowder, and Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility and Nice Racism are here! These two badasses are dropping their hot tips for confronting your red-pilled relatives while …

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Nov. 7 Is Coming: All Eyes on Ohio and Virginia. With Rebecca Traister & Eunji Kim 1:13:06

6M ago1:13:06

1:13:06

Full episode transcript HERE. Ahoy Buzzkills! ABORTION IS ON THE BALLOT NEXT WEEK IN OHIO AND VIRGINIA! Lizz and Moji got y’all covered on everything you need to know about what these state elections mean for EVERYONE IN THIS TWISTED-ASS COUNTRY. We’re counting up all the last-minute dirty tricks anti-abortion extremists are unloading to fool folks…

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The Call Is Coming From Inside the House… of Representatives. With Dr. Savita Ginde & Maddie Wiener 1:03:16

6M ago1:03:16

1:03:16

Full episode transcript HERE. IT’S SPOOKY SEASON… which seems to be a year-round theme for the anti-abortion ghouls haunting our bodily autonomy. But, no need to fear! Your zombie-slaying Feminist Buzzkills are here to drop the facts on EVERYTHING you and your uterus need to know, deliver some hope, and drop marching orders on how we can continue o…

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SPECIAL EPISODE: She Was Denied Life-Saving Care, So She Sued. With Tara Rule 23:26

6M ago23:26

23:26

By Lizz Winstead, tara rule, Moji Alawode-El

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Call a Doctor, Go to Jail? With Elizabeth Estrada 49:44

6M ago49:44

49:44

Full episode transcript HERE. This week, the Feminist Buzzkills are drawing the terrifying picture of what pregnancy prosecutions look like in the US. Spoiler alert: Pregnancy-related prosecutions have been happening in the US forEVER and are happening NOW. Not in the future. NOW. In the US of A. Let that sink in. Some bright spots? There’s some ac…

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Catholic Hospitals Are Cannibalizing Abortion Access! With Aida Rodriguez & Vanessa Arenas 1:09:38

7M ago1:09:38

1:09:38

Full episode transcript HERE. The garbage anti-abobo people of America got real busy this week, but no need to fear, your Feminist Buzzkills are here to sift through all of the hot steaming trash for y’all! Catholic hospitals are doing what they do best and gobbling up small non-religiously-affiliated hospitals. We’re also blabbing about Qatar Airw…

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Colorado Reverses Abortion Reversal With Danielle Perez & Jas Margarita Tobon 1:09:25

7M ago1:09:25

1:09:25

Full episode transcript HERE. All new podisode, all new SHIT WE CANNOT BELIEVE WE HAVE TO SAY. Colorado has taken the RADICAL position of saying you cannot take pills to reverse your abortion. Why RADICAL? Because in many of these United States, doctors are required to recommend that BS now, and the Buzzkills are here to rage and remind you that yo…

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Kansassholes Are Next Level! with Barry W. Lynn 1:05:18

7M ago1:05:18

1:05:18

Full episode transcript HERE. Big pod this week, diving right in! Soooo remember how Kansas voted to protect abortion access in a landslide ballot initiative? Guess that didn’t matter to the anti-abortion babadooks in the Kansas legislature. Ever since that win, they have FOUR DIFFERENT abortion restrictions that are laughably terrifying. We are br…

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Abortion in Mexico? ¡Sí Se Puede! With Emma Arnold & Katie Quiñonez 1:12:51

8M ago1:12:51

1:12:51

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills are back from break and guess who became more progressive than the USA while we were away? MEXICO, BABY! Their blissfully Amy Coney Barrett-free Supreme Court just DECRIMINALIZED ABORTION NATIONWIDE. It’s a huge deal and on this week’s pod, Moji and Lizz are sipping margaritas and explaining HOW …

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Doctors Aren’t Safe and Red States Are Paying the Price: Live From Netroots Nation (PT. 3) With Pamela Merritt 43:07

8M ago43:07

43:07

Full episode transcript HERE. There’s an abortion training crisis, Buzzkills, and Lizz and Moji want YOU to be informed. In this week’s episode, we get DEEP into it with the oh-so-marvelous Pamela Merritt, Executive Director of Medical Students for Choice. She’s here to educate your earholes with all the deets on how doctors and med students are fl…

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Ohio? More Like OhiOMFG We Won! With Tara Murtha, Dr. DeShawn Taylor & Stanzi Potenza 1:14:12

9M ago1:14:12

1:14:12

Full episode transcript HERE. This week’s Feminist Buzzkills pod is comin’ atcha from the winner’s circle, because all we do is win! Things may still be garbage, but on this week’s podisode, the Buzzkills stop and celebrate the Ohio voters who were asked to vote on abortion (in a really screwy way) and WON! Just like every ballot measure since the …

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Anti-abortion Tactics Have Hit New Lows! With Liz Glazer, Robin Marty & Francesca Tripodi 1:19:36

9M ago1:19:36

1:19:36

TW: Pregnancy Loss/Stillbirth Full episode transcript HERE. It’s Lizz’s birthday week!!! Celebrate with us by filling your earholes with the angelic voices of our Feminist Buzzkills. The anti-abortion tactics have gone TOO far, so we’re raging about it. We’re also spilling the pipin’ hot tea on everything that’s gone down this week in Abobolandia, …

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Your Buzzkills Are Live From Atlanta With Baron Vaughn, Brian Unger & Atlanta Reproductive Justice Leaders 1:29:12

9M ago1:29:12

1:29:12

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills did a whole-ass LIVE SHOW in ATLANTA! We didn’t want y’all to miss out on our shenanigans, so we podified it for you! We packed the house at Terminal West, a dope comedy and music venue, and fed off all the vibezzzzzzz. As always, Moji and I broke down the stories that made steam blow out of our …

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It’s a Tommy Tuberville World After All: Live From Netroots Nation (PT. 2) With Dr. Allison Gill 37:27

9M ago37:27

37:27

Full episode transcript HERE. TW: Sexual Assault. Welcome to PART TWO of the Feminist Buzzkills LIVE from Netroots Nation, AKA the largest gathering of progressive writers, activists, and organizers in America! In part two of this mini-series, the Buzzkills are serving up all the fresh, steaming hot abobo-related tea while also dragging Senator Tom…

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Who’s Getting Abortions? The Answer May Surprise You: Live From Netroots Nation (PT. 1) With Joyelle Nicole Johnson and Walker Fitz 45:05

10M ago45:05

45:05

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills take Netroots Nation in Chicago, AKA the largest gathering of progressive writers, activists, and organizers in America! And guess what? We’re delivering y’all THREE live tapings from each day we’re there! In part one of this mini-series, get an earful of us Buzzkillin’ about why we want to abort…

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The Dobbs Decision: A Year Later With Amy Hagstrom Miller, Allison Coffman & Phoebe Robinson (REPOST) 1:39:20

10M ago1:39:20

1:39:20

Full episode transcript HERE. When a podisode is THIS IMPORTANT, it gets posted twice. While the Feminist Buzzkills are off this week, we wanted to make sure you still got your dose of obliterating the patriarchy. Send our Dobbs Anniversary Special to your friends, your enemies, and everyone in between — nobody should miss this! WHEW. IT’S BEEN ONE…

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The Dangers of a Molar Pregnancy With Amber Gavin and Katherine Riley 1:01:40

10M ago1:01:40

1:01:40

Full episode transcript HERE. The Supreme Court has us pissed off and unwell… again. Your Feminist Buzzkills are channeling that rage into another podisode for your earholes! Have you ever heard of a molar pregnancy? We hadn’t either. And spoiler alert: it’s terrifying. This episode is hard but important. We have an exclusive interview with one of …

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The Dobbs Decision: A Year Later With Amy Hagstrom Miller, Allison Coffman & Phoebe Robinson 1:39:20

10M ago1:39:20

1:39:20

Full episode transcript HERE. WHEW. IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR SINCE DOBBS. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR BODILY AUTONOMY IS? Time really flies when you’re having ksajfk;lsekljskv!!111!!!!! What has become of our reproductive landscape since the Dobbs decision took a wrecking ball to our rights? What were the major fallouts, what were the unexpected wins and loss…

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Somebody Somewhere Needs an Abortion 1:16:23

11M ago1:16:23

1:16:23

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills are back this week with a series of important questions, like, “Are there fetuses in the water, and is that why it’s so refreshing?” And, “If you’re cooking with fetuses, should you follow the recipe, or automatically double it like you do with garlic?” The Buzzkills have the rundown on why they …

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Texas Hold 'Em Accountable 1:08:58

11M ago1:08:58

1:08:58

Full episode transcript HERE. Looks like this summer’s shittiest must-have is shaping up to be … 12-week abortion bans? Yup, and we’re pissed about it. Your Feminist Buzzkills are here to break down why this trend is worse than the fur bikini. That’s not all that we are raging about! The wack anti-abobo ghouls in Nebraska want a teen and her mom be…

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They’re Anti-abortion, Anti-trans & Anti-truth 58:01

11M ago58:01

58:01

Full episode transcript HERE. Greetings fellow Buzzkillers! Moji & Marie are holding it down while Lizz is in Boulder raising money for clinics and doing a special FBK episode on this week’s Mife Oral Arguments that you should also check out! But never fear, M&M are covering every godawful state legislature currently hurting people who need abortio…

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SPECIAL EPISODE: Breaking Down the Abortion Pill Oral Arguments 56:37

11M ago56:37

56:37

We listened to the whole ugly mifepristone hearing so you didn’t have to and then broke it down right here on this bonus podcast! FUN FACT: The hearing happened to coincide with Lizz doing a live Q&A in Boulder as a fundraiser for The Boulder Valley Health Center, so DOUBLE BONUS! AND TRIPLE BONUS, the Q&A was done with expert Repro Lawyer Jessica …

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The Chupacabra Abortion Ban Eating Us All 1:11:29

12M ago1:11:29

1:11:29

Full episode transcript HERE. This week, the Feminist Buzzkills go deep on a whole lot of sketchy shit spewing out of Texas including an OG anti-abortion law most people don’t know about that requires medical professionals to report ALL KINDS OF THINGS as “abortion complications,” even things that have literally nothing to do with abortion. A North…

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Fox News Aborts a 2808 Week-Old Baby 1:06:01

12M ago1:06:01

1:06:01

Full episode transcript HERE. The rumors are indeed true– Fox News aborted a 2,028 week-old baby, AKA Tucker Carlson. The Feminist Buzzkills are poppin’ off and reading every receipt on the hidden BS this fucker has done to ramp up and incite hatred against women, trans folks, non-binary people, and everybody who’s ever needed or provided an aborti…

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What’s the Buzz: Everything You Need to Know About the Mifepristone Case 1:07:58

1y ago1:07:58

1:07:58

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills are having déjà vu all over again this week, as it’s yet another Friday and we’re waiting to see what Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is going to do to our abortion rights. Now raise your hand if you’ve been losing your marbles over this Mifepristone abortion pill circle jerk. No need to fear,…

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BRO v. WADE 1:02:29

1y ago1:02:29

1:02:29

Full episode transcript is HERE. SPECIAL PODISODE ALERT! This week’s pod drop is ANYTHING but regular. The abortion pill BS doesn’t seem to be stopping, so your favorite Feminist Buzzkills put together an hour-long serotonin boost for y’all. It’s a special episode featuring some incredible abobo-loving, cis dude stand-ups who recently did a comedy …

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The Latest Abortion Pill Ruling Explained With Dr. Michele Goodwin 24:21

1y ago24:21

24:21

The “Feminist Buzzkills” podcast is dropping an extra breaking news mini- episode this week to explain what the hell the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just did in response to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s recent ruling on the (totally safe) abortion drug mifepristone. Is it a win? It is NOT A WIN. Is Kacsmaryk still the religious right’s favorite acti…

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Your Abortion Data Is Not Safe 1:09:01

1y ago1:09:01

1:09:01

Full episode transcript HERE. This week, on the ONLY weekly abortion podcast made by people IN the abortion field, your Feminist Buzzkills celebrate some MAJOR wins in Wisconsin! One of which includes AAF bestie, the fabulous and unstoppable Dina Nina being elected alder, making her the first openly trans woman to hold office in Madison, Wisconsin!…

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Trans Day of Visibility 1:13:39

1y ago1:13:39

1:13:39

Full episode transcript HERE. Hello Buzzkilltrix! This week, like every week, your Buzzkills play whack-a-mole with shitty anti-abortion laws and the garbage people who breathe them into existence! HIGHLIGHTS! Idaho is doing the most trying to provide the least as they are about to become the first state to criminalize “abortion trafficking,” which…

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The Weirdos Are Loud 54:07

1y ago54:07

54:07

Full episode transcript HERE. It’s officially spring, y’all, and we’re using this season of growth to sow those fertile seeds of abortion activism. Why do we need activism as self-care, you ask? BECAUSE OF WYOMING, IDAHO, UTAH, and all the other states that are obsessed with getting all up in our junk. How are the latest trash anti-abortion laws in…

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FRIENDS FROM WOMB TO TOMB 1:04:32

1y ago1:04:32

1:04:32

Wow, it has been a huge week for white dudes who think they’re the Property Brothers of your uterus, we’re talking about ALL OF THEM on this week’s “Feminist Buzzkills!” Have you heard about the ruling on the federal mifepristone case in Amarillo, Texas? NEITHER HAVE WE! The judge hasn’t ruled yet, but we do have new info. We’re breaking down the l…

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Anatomy of an Anti-Abortion Bully 1:21:30

1y ago1:21:30

1:21:30

Full episode transcript HERE. It’s Abortion Provider Appreciation Day (YAY!) so the Feminist Buzzkills are celebrating by spoiling y’all with an extra abobo-packed podisode with not two, but THREE dope special guests! We’re spilling the latest BS tea you and your uterus need to know as per ushe, including a Buzzkill Breakdown on the anatomy of the …

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The Worst Little Courthouse in Texas 57:29

1y ago57:29

57:29

Full episode transcript HERE. CALLING ALL WOMB WARRIORS! This week, your Feminist Buzzkills are bringing y’all a very special podisode. Another court is out here trying to destroy abortion access - shocker! The court in question? Oh, just the absolute worst little courthouse in Amarillo, Texas. Surprise: They got Roe v. Wade overturned, and now the…

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Buttloads of BS 52:12

1y ago52:12

52:12

Full episode transcript HERE. RUN, don’t walk, to your nearest listening device and get a new earful of the Feminist Buzzkills doin’ their thang! Don't you hate when your fate is in the hands of one dingbat man in Texas? Don’t you ALSO hate when the FACE Act that was created to protect REAL clinics is being appropriated by the forced birther ghouls…

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Tennessee, Goddam 1:09:25

1y ago1:09:25

1:09:25

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills are back with another episode of rage! This week in Abobolandia: Colorado, Texas, and Tennessee are in a pissing contest to see who can give the bigger F*CK YOU to uteruses. And TBH, Tennessee may or may not be taking home the dipshit award for that one. As always, we’re here to unpack and pop of…

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