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Cavern of Secrets

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A show about extraordinary women, hosted by Lauren Mitchell. From Vocal Fry Studios.

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  1. Featuring Haviah Mighty

    Haviah Mighty drops by the Cavern after a big win: She’s the winner of the 2019 Polaris Prize for the album, 13th floor. Lauren and Haviah get into how to work with a producer, writing for discomfort, and using your voice as an instrument. “My approach is to open up minds so that the ignorance...

  2. Featuring Eden Robinson

    Author, funny woman and busy person Eden Robinson calls into the Cavern from Kitimat, British Columbia to talk nail polish, carting around family in a big car and the gift that menopause gives you. Eden’s books include Traplines, the Giller-nominated Son Of A Trickster, and Blood Sports. Her...

  3. Featuring Carly Lewis

    Carly Lewis, journalist, kind woman and spectacular human being, joins host Lauren Mitchell in the Cavern. Carly has written for the Globe and Mail, New York Magazine, the Atlantic, Hazlitt and more. She talks about the value of feeling isolated, getting away from your anger and making sure your...

  4. Featuring Georgia Webber

    Georgia Webber, writer and illustrator, comes to the Cavern of Secrets to talk about what it means when you can’t express yourself, learning to draw again, and allowing the possibility that someone will say ‘yes’ and help you. Georgia’s graphic memoir, Dumb, is about what it means to become...

  5. Featuring Sarah Hagi

    Sarah Hagi, writer and queen of Twitter @geeklylonglegs, comes to the Cavern of Secrets to talk about the Garfield restaurant, the Blackest cartoons and how to have fun (again) as a writer. “It was intended to be a joke piece where I was like, yeah, Bugs Bunny is black.” Our favourite moments…

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  6. Featuring Monica Heisey

    Monica Heisey, author, comedian, TV writer and all around warm and funny individual joins host Lauren Mitchell in the Cavern to talk about the years that have passed. After a three year hiatus, Cavern of Secrets is back. Since then, Monica has become even more successful, gotten a divorce, and...

  7. Featuring Vicky Mochama

    The specific way men interview women (5:05), Rory Gilmore, journalist (17:17), and the Avril Lavigne riots of 2021 (48:27)

  8. Featuring Courtney Skye

    Saving lives and fighting fires (13:58), protesting at Standing Rock (23:16), and riding in cars with cops (37:18)

  9. Featuring Léonicka Valcius

    The glamorous life of an intern (8:20),the incredible whiteness of CanLit (22:15), and playing video games for the story (44:40).

  10. Featuring Kyrell Grant

    The O.C. at the height of its O.C.-ness (7:00), is this bolognese feminist? (19:00), and where were you when A Seat at the Table dropped? (39:38)

  11. Featuring Dawn Whitwell

    Flossing to live (7:27), shining in a shiny room (21:44), and the blessed life of a comedy writer (33:52).

  12. Featuring Namugenyi Kiwanuka

    Embracing your accents (9:12), little voices yelling things (14:25), and the high cost of telling your story (17:47).

  13. Featuring Lauren McKeon

    Branding yourself a feminist (06:37), defining care and ability (12:01), and pouring one out for Sum 41 (22:30)

  14. Featuring Cindy Li

    Terrible Calvin Klein ads (12:23), building safer raves (32:07) and how to get into Berghain (40:41)

  15. Featuring Anupa Mistry

    Does anyone need an MBA? (10:48) knowing what you want in your 30s (15:41) and slamming some kombucha and sinking into the ocean (34:02).

  16. Featuring Eternity Martis

    Living off of peanut butter and stale crackers (8:14), preserving Black history in Canada (13:47), and how we save our abolitionist museums (30:55)

  17. Featuring Mya Taylor

    A five on beauty (10:56), singing Deborah Cox (20:21), and why North Dakota is better than L.A. (27:30)

  18. Featuring Yaa Gyasi

    The public life of a book (6:40), the song of a lapsed Christian (21:57), and not getting salty about your partner’s edits (30:10).

  19. Featuring Cheryl Strayed

    The business of making your book a film (5:36), when adaptations aren’t (14:40), and why we need stories (24:45).

  20. Kyrell Grant Returns

    Lemonade and intergenerational trauma (1:41), building a life in Drake’s jacket (14:04), and the saddest Reddit relationship post (22:36)

  21. Featuring Carmen Aguirre

    Performing within the Chilean resistance (6:32), the pull of revolutionary love (19:53), and extremely fascist great aunts (31:52).

  22. Featuring Monica Heisey

    The sweet adult baby life (6:04), a gentle disagreement with Amy Schumer (11:19), beards as the great dude leveller (21:07), and the problem of the Inappropriate Literary Man.

  23. Featuring Leanne Shapton

    Putting a face to jealousy (5:47), the usefulness of boob shelves (16:12), and what happens between ages 0 to 3 (30:44).

  24. Featuring Jillian Tamaki

    The curse of absolute freedom, Toronto vs. New York, and not relying on your parents for financial advice.

  25. Featuring Kyrell Grant

    On thigh gaps, thirst, and Kanye’s masculinity.

  26. Featuring Denise Balkissoon

    On sexist chefs and reporting on race in Toronto.

  27. Featuring Carrie Brownstein

    On fandom, tweeting the pope, and the collective fatigue of the U.S. electoral process. Also turtles.

  28. Featuring Tanya Tagaq

    On fear, the legacy of the residential school system, and pandering to the bottom feeders of the country.

  29. Featuring Tavi Gevinson

    On being 15, growing up online, and writing with your mouth.

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A show about extraordinary women, hosted by Lauren Mitchell. From Vocal Fry Studios.

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