WWJD: What Would Jenny Do?

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 reports of sexual violence are flat out ignored. We need to foster a system that not only supports and empowers victim survivors but holds abusers and rapists accountable. Creating new laws to push for change will not work, especially when the laws that exist don’t protect us from rape. We must dismantle this capitalist, white supremist, patriarchal and colonial system – otherwise we are simply asking men for stuff.

Please sign the petition and support the campaign to end the silence

https://www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/end-the-silence-on-sexual-violence

Super Special Anniversary Bonanza feat. Sharna Bremner, Dr Bianca Fileborn & Anna from SlutWalk Munich

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 Campus: https://www.endrapeoncampusau.org/

To support LetUsSpeak: https://www.gofundme.com/f/let-us-speak-australia 

Next up we talk about the criminal justice system and how it fails women and victim surviours with Dr Bianca Fileborn. Dr Fileborn is a senior lecturer in criminology, DECRA fellow, researcher of sexual violence & harassment, gender & sexuality and an absolute legend. CW warning for listing types of sexual violence. 

Time code: 9:05 - 43:30

Achieving Justice for Street Harrassment project: https://www.streetharassmentjustice.com/ 

And finally we have a brand spanking new one, Anna from SlutWalk Munich talking about patriachy, captialism, consent and brief discussion of eating disorders (heads up). 

Time code: 44:05 - 1:03:50

SlutWalk International: https://www.facebook.com/celebrateslutwalk

SlutWalk München: https://www.facebook.com/SlutWalkMunich

Minister 4 Women 4 Eva

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 feminist who’s doing great work. Definitely check out her book Talkin’ Up to the White Woman (https://www.readings.com.au/products/32823550/talkin-up-to-the-white-woman-20th-anniversary-edition) and remember to use your local libraries, they take recommendations for books they should buy that aren’t in stock!

CORRECTION: We quote an article by Sara Dowse (called The Prime Minister’s Women, printed in Australian Feminist Studies in 2015) and said we didn’t quite understand what she was saying when she said “At the beginning of 1977 the branch was upgraded again and became the Office of Women’s Affairs. It looked like a promotion, and it was for me, but what it actually signified was the removal of the office at the year’s end to a new, low-ranking department of home affairs.” THEN we are shocked later to learn that the position of Minister for Women disappeared in 1977 and reappeared in 1983. Sara Dowse is literally referring to this. Apologies, we had read too much and our brains were not computing. What happened in 1977 in the shift to home affairs meant that this office no longer reported directly to the Prime Minister.

Resources:

Join & support Renters And Housing Union. For details on upcoming eviction defence training and know your renters rights workshops go to https://rahu.org.au/

To support ALL workers rights, support the rights of the unemployed at Australian Unemployed Workers Union https://unemployedworkersunion.com/

A Jaunty StrollThrough Transmedicalisation and the Weird Perverts Who Control It

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 the recent big news items, including Invasion Day, the Irish report on the Commission into Mother and Baby homes and a brief mention of the Malka Leifer case in Melbourne.

Executive Summary of the Final Report of the Commision of the Investigation into Mother & Babies Homes: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/22c0e-executive-summary-of-the-final-report-of-the-commission-of-investigation-into-mother-and-baby-homes/

Report to Reveal Scale of Abuse at Ireland's Mother & Babies Homes: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/12/report-scale-abuse-ireland-mother-baby-homes

This podcast is recorded on stolen Aboriginal land.

Indigenous literacy foundation: https://www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/ 

Healing foundation: https://healingfoundation.org.au/donate/  

Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance: 

Melbourne: WAR/RISE ANZ

BSB: 013128

Account: 220584933

Brisbane Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance

BSB: 633 000

Account: 154 594 758

Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women’s legal centre: https://www.wirringabaiya.org.au/ 

Justice for Yuendumu: Inquiry on police shooting https://www.gofundme.com/f/justice-for-yuendumu-inquiry-on-police-shooting  

Sisters inside: https://www.sistersinside.com.au/ 

Justice for David Dungay Junior: https://au.gofundme.com/f/d9qkb6-justice-for-david 

Happy Coup Year!

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. 

Megapod: 2020 Crossover Extravaganza

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 news from 2020!*

For complaints regarding bias in board game scoring and fake news you can find Travis by summoning a Gamilaroi god in the desert or on the internet at;

Broriginals Podcast

https://travisdevries.com/category/podcast Awesome Black

https://awesomeblack.org

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/travishdevries

Join Awesome Black

https://awesomeblack.org/membership-account/membership-levels/ 

Friends of Awesome Black on Facebook

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1074272319391191/permalink/1796788803806202/?comment_id=1796794640472285

Travis Tweets from @TravishDeVries

To help Jo figure out which sparrow teat to milk  get in touch at;

Chronically Fully Sick

http://www.chronicallyfullysick.com

Or on Twitter @chronicfullsick

To roast Leah for not realising Baghdad was formed low key smack bang in the middle of the middle ages you can catch her at;

Loud Angry Not Sorry Podcast

https://loudandangry.podbean.com

Feminists United Website

http://feministsunitedaustralia.org

Twitter: @leahlikes

And finally, listen to Auspol Snackpod for the news, the memes, and to get Noon and Zac into 47th place on Spotify for 2021 - 

Listen to the show at https://auspolsnackpod.podbean.com/ or find us in your favourite pod app

Facebook: http://facebook.com/auspolsnackpod

Patreon for bonus eps: http://www.patreon.com/AuspolSnackpod

Twitter and Insta: @auspolsnackpod

Email: contact@auspolsnackpod.com

*like a fair bit, not all. Like come on, as if we can fit an entire year into 1.5hours

What’s in a [feminist] wave?

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.

TERF Wars

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!

Bisou!

This podcast is recorded on stolen Aboriginal land. 

Creating Leaders feat. Chilli & Mev

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 about SlutWalk but we did not really get around to that, instead we spoke about the rising rates of family violence during covid, how we are raising young boys to maintain patriachial systems and how we can organise as a feminist community to overcome these obstacles. It was a pretty great chat, and hope you enjoy!

AntiSocialist Housing feat Eirene from RAHU

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 perspective. Check them out at https://auspolsnackpod.podbean.com/e/075-pub-lunch-housing-with-david-kelly/