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Living While Feminist
by Jen Thorpe
Living While Feminist is a podcast in celebration of living a feminist life. Each week it features a feminist from South Africa and the world so that we can listen to and draw from their experiences to embolden our own. Hosted by feminist author, writer, and researcher, Jen Thorpe.
Episodes
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S6:E5 - Lenina Rassool on the Womxn Show, covering GBV, and finding support in community
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Lenina Rassool. Lenina is the producer and presenter of The Womxn Show, a weekly TV show produced by Cape Town TV that focuses on gender-based violence and gender justice. The show launched in 2019 and since then has aired over 100 episodes – an incredible...
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S6: E4 - Nechama Brodie: Music, motherhood and Domestic Terror
Nechama Brodie is no stranger to the Living While Feminist podcast. We spoke in 2021 for Season 4, so if you haven’t listened to that episode please do go back and find it now. Nechama Brodie is an absolute polymath – multi-media journalist, author, senior lecturer at the University of the...
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S6: E3 - Dee Marco: Making private and public space for motherhood
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Derilene Marco. Derilene is a creative scholar who holds a Senior Lecturer position in Media Studies at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dee’s research pivots around social and cultural practices and experiences of the everyday, particularly in...
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S6: E2 - Athambile Masola: The power of writing our truths
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Athambile Masola. Athambile is a writer, researcher and an award-winning poet based in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her debut collection of poetry is written in isiXhosa, Ilifa (Uhlanga Press, 2021). She is the…
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S6: E1 - Sam Beckbessinger - Female friendship, fiction writing, and the freedom of living somewhere new
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Sam Beckbessinger. I had the pleasure of talking to Sam in December 2020 for Season 1 about How to Manage your Money like a Fucking Grown-up, and we talked all things money from a feminist perspective. So, if you haven’t yet listened to that episode, go back,...
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S5: E9 - Rumbi Goredema Görgens - Making Motherhood Matter
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Rumbi Goredema Görgens. Rumbi is a Zimbabwean-born South African-based feminist author and activist. Her writing has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Vela Magazine, and on FeministsSA.com and MyFirstTimeSA.com. She has worked with various South African…
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Season 5 update
A quick update to say that my real mom life has got in the way of recording and sharing this week's episode. It'll be out later this week.
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S5: E8 - Lauren Beukes - Parenting across the multiverses
Today on the podcast I’ll be speaking with Lauren Beukes. Lauren is the award-winning author of six novels, a collection of short stories, a pop history about South African women, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages. Her novel, The Shining Girls,...
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S5: E7 - Megan Ross - Motherhood and feminism as a process of constantly forgiving yourself
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Megan Ross. Megan is a writer, creative consultant and journalist. She is the author of Milk Fever (published by uHlanga Press in 2018) which is a collection of poetry. In Milk Fever Megan writes about the uneasy truths of unexpected motherhood and all its...
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S5: E6 - Sarah Lotz - Parenting without judgment and the fun of writing
Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Sarah Lotz. Sarah was born in the UK, lived in Paris, Israel and spent 20 years in Cape Town. She returned to the UK 5 years ago and is currently living on the Welsh borderlands. She’s an ex mural artist, now lucky enough to be a full time screenwriter and...
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S5: E5 Sara-Jayne Makwala King - Motherhood and learning to reparent yourself
Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Sara-Jayne Makwala King. Sara-Jayne is an award winning radio presenter, best-selling author, journalist, and public speaker whose career spans two decades and four continents. She has an LLB honours degree from the University of Greenwich and a Masters in...
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S5: E4 - Joy Watson - Parenting an adult child, feminist public policy, and the writing life
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Joy Watson. Joy is a feminist researcher and writer who specialises in analysing public policy and service delivery, as well as tracking funding flows from the perspective of building social equity. She has many years of experience in developing feminist...
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S5: E3 - Yewande Omotoso - Liberating Motherhood
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Yewande Omotoso. Yewande is an architect, with a masters in creative writing from the University of Cape Town. Her debut novel ‘Bomboy’ (2011 Modjaji Books), won the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize. Her short stories include ‘How About…
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S5: E2 - Wessel van den Berg - Feminist fatherhood and care
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Wessel Van Den Berg. Wessel is the father of two young children aged 6 and 8, and he sees fatherhood as his main job. In his spare time, his curiosity about men and care has led him to work as a kindergarten teacher, counsellor, activist, and researcher. He...
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S5: E1 - Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah - Motherhood and the Sex Lives of African Women
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah. Nana is the author of The Sex Lives of African Women, which Publishers Weekly described as “an astonishing report on the quest for sexual liberation” in their starred review. It was also listed by The Economist as a best book of the…
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Season 5, Coming Soon!
Season 5 of Living While Feminist will be launching this August on the theme Parenting While Feminist! So looking forward to these conversations.
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S4: E10 - See you in 2022!
Take care of yourselves!
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S4: E9: Nyx Mclean - Finding home and communities, and celebrating identity
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Nyx McLean. Nyx McLean is a trans non-binary queer South African, they use the pronouns they/them. Nyx is an academic who specialises in LGBTIAQ+ identities and communities, and their use of digital technology to form publics and counter-publics to resist the...
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S4: E8: Tiff Mugo: On sexual touch, heartbreak, pole dancing, and feminism
Today on the podcast I have the absolute pleasure of talking again to Tiffany Kagure Mugo. Tiff was the very first guest on Living While Feminist, talking about her book Quirky Quick Guide to having great sex, cancel culture, and everything in between. Since then Tiff has given us a new…
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S4: E7: Ziyanda Stuurman: Policing, policy making and feminism
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Ziyanda Stuurman. Ziyanda is a social policy, political science, and international relations graduate who currently works as a social science researcher based in Cape Town. She’s a recipient of both the Chevening and Fulbright scholarships and hold advanced...
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S4: E6 Nechama Brodie: Femicide, fake news, fact checking, fiction and feminist growth
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Dr Nechama Brodie. Nechama has worked as a multi-media journalist, editor, producer and publisher for nearly twenty-five years. During this time she has dodged the secret police in Burma, explored tunnels underneath Johannesburg, gotten dusty at rock…
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S4: E5 Terry-Ann Adams: Writing women, Inspiration and Activism
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Terry-Ann Adams. Terry-Ann is a writer and commentator from Johannesburg. They have an honours in history from the University of Pretoria where she focused on the disability rights movement in South Africa and Disability Representation in American Film. They...
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S4: E4: Candice Chirwa - Period power and positivity
Today on the podcast I’m talking with South Africa’s self-appointed Minister of Menstruation, Candice Chirwa. Candice is a thought leader with an avid interest in gender and youth issues in South Africa. She specialises in menstrual education for young people and brings #eduliftment with her...
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S4: E3: Belinda Mountain - Motherhood and feminism, disney princesses and entrepreneurship
Today on the podcast I’m speaking to Belinda Mountain. Belinda studied a business Science degree but found that her love of words led her straight into working in the world of book publishing as a graduate, and then she spent around eight years working in publishing in both the UK and South…
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S4: E2: Gugu Mhlungu - Celebrating the glass ceiling breakers who came before
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Gugulethu Mhlungu. As a writer, broadcaster and editor, Gugu is a respected voice in South Africa’s media space. In her role as contributing editor for Global Citizen she’s helping to advance the organisation’s vision of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and as...
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S4: E1 Barbara Boswell - Feminist re-envisioning and the power of black South African women's feminism
Welcome back to Season 4 of Living While Feminist! Thank you for tuning in. Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share! Today on the podcast I’m talking with feminist literary scholar and award-winning author, Dr Barbara Boswell. Barbara is the Head of the English Department at the...
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Season 4 update and SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!
What you can expect in Season 4 and some exciting news!
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S3: E9 Your winter reading list: all the books recommended by podcast guests so far
Every episode I've asked feminists to recommend books that have inspired their feminism. Now you can listen to all of those recommendations in one go, and make your winter reading order from your local book store.
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S3, E8: Ananda Morris Paver - Hairy situations and the best time to have a feminist debate
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Ananda Morris Paver. Ananda is an editor in the edutech industry, where her role focuses on pedagogical quality and development. She holds an MA in English and American Literature from the University of Kent with research interests spanning representations of...
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S3: E7 Michelle Edwards - Encounters with the patriarchy, feminist parenting, and finding the courage to write
Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Michelle Edwards. Michelle is a writer and the editor-in-chief of the PR and Content Marketing team at Showmax. She graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2005. After that she began her journeys around the world, living in Taiwan, the UK, South Africa…
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S3, E6: Gabriella Pinto: #MeToo and women in film
Gabriella is a writer and filmmaker from Cape Town. Traversing art and journalism, she is interested in telling stories about the human condition. Her website includes several examples of these – a documentary about a prosthetic leg maker, a short documentary on the artist Amy Ayanda, and a PSA...
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S3, E5: Arja Salafranca: Finding oneself in love and in writing
Today on the podcast I’m talking with writer Arja Salafranca. Arja Salafranca has published three collections of poetry, A Life Stripped of Illusions (1995), which received the Sanlam Award for poetry, The Fire in which we Burn (2000); and Beyond Touch(2015) which was a co-winner of the SALA...
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S3, E4: Jarred Thompson: Penetration, the balancing benefits of yoga, and writing
Jarred Thompson is a queer researcher and academic whose poetry, fiction and non-fiction has been published in various journals, notably the Johannesburg Review of Books, The Gerald Kraak Award Anthology Volume 3 and ImageOutWrite Anthology. He recently won the inaugural 2020 Afritondo Short…
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S3, E3: Anelile Dlamini-Gibixego - Why Jesus is a feminist and ecofeminism is vital
Anelile Dlamini – Gibixego is a Pietermaritzburg-born author, mother and scientist. Anelile completed a Bachelor of Science in microbiology and cellular biology in 2011 from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal and an Honours degree in environmental science at North-West University in 2017. In her…
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S3, E2: Alice Draper - Vulnerability, body hair, and interrogating our body choices
Today on the podcast I speak to to Alice Draper. Alice is a freelance writer and editor currently based in Nottingham Road, KwaZulu-Natal. She finished studying a Bachelor of Journalism at Rhodes University in 2019 and has had the fun job of trying to cultivate a career during a global pandemic....
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SEASON 3, EPISODE 1: Nobantu Shabangu: Haircuts, hard truths, and the pitfalls and potentials of therapy
Nobantu Shabangu is a gender non-conforming South African writer of plays, poems, short stories and essays. They started writing when they were nine years old, and at eighteen they won a national essay competition on the cruelty of farm animals. This was the first of many prizes including…
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S2, E10: Naledi Maponopono - Economic liberation and feminism in the classroom
The season finale is SHORT, but SO amazing! Today on the podcast I’m talking with Naledi Maponopono. Naledi is a grade 4 to 12 isiXhosa teacher at Reddam House Atlantic Seaboard. She is also a lecturer at the South African College of Applied Psychology. She’s the Deputy Provincial Secretary of…
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S2, E9: Helené Prinsloo - Fitness, fat phobia and feminist freedom
Today on the podcast I talk with with Helené Prinsloo about fitness, fat phobia, and feminist freedom. Helené works in publishing, promoting fiction and nonfiction for NB Publishers. She is a ‘professional bookworm’ and she has been active in the book industry for eight years helping writers tell...
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S2, E8: Neoka Naidoo - Climate change and feminism
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Neoka Naidoo. Neoka always wanted someone to do something about the issues that plague our society, then she realised she was somebody, and got straight to work. In 2014 she was selected as the Leadership Development Fellow in South Africa for the Climate...
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S2, E7: M.A. Warden - Living the Queer Question
M.A. Warden is a philosophy lecturer, aspiring writer and artist. Marc has their own YouTube Channel, called Indecent, where they discuss issues around philosophy, politics, gender and queer studies, and whatever else tickles their fancy. They spend most of their time engaged in some or the other...
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S2, E6: Dr Anja "Nanna" Venter - Feminism at parties, making art, and democratising digital design
Today's episode touches on so many topics - dating while feminist, male tears, making feminist art, democratising digital design, and the importance of honest conversation. Dr Anja "Nanna" Venter is an ‘artstronaut’ working at the intersections of art, culture, and technology. Find her on...
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S2, E5: Dela Gwala - Managing your feminist boundaries and how meditation can help
Today I’m excited to be talking to Dela Gwala. Dela Gwala is a full-time feminist, activist writer, reluctant spiritualist, and hard truths enthusiast. She holds a Master’s degree in Gender studies from the SOAS University of London and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape...
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S2, E4: Dawn Garisch - The importance of creative practice for feminism and healing
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Dawn Garisch – a true contemporary maverick. Dawn is a medical doctor and a published writer. She has had seven novels, a collection of poetry, short stories, a non-fiction work and a memoir published. She has had five plays and short film produced, and has...
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S2, E3: Zangose Tembo - The power of reimagining feminist futures so we can be more human
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Zangose Tembo. Zangose works in the field of social justice. For the past seven years she’s worked and volunteered for notable social justice/impact organizations including One Young World, Population Council and the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP)....
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S2, E2: Juanita De Villiers - Neurodiversity, food justice, the power of queerness, and gothic fiction
Today on the podcast I talk to Juanita De Villiers. Juanita is a collector of hobbies and special interests, and a Masters candidate at the University of Cape Town where her thesis focuses on contemporary gothic literature. Juanita is a massive horror enthusiast, in the process of starting a…
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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1 - Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika - The importance of sisterhood and writing our stories
Today on the podcast I’m talking to Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika. Relebone is a who is a Tzaneen-born, Makhanda-bred, Joburg-buttered writer. She describes herself as the awkward girl who brings a book to a party but dreams of opening the dance circle. Relebone won the Blackbird Books / Casa Lorde...
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S1 BONUS! - Manage Your Money Like a Fucking Feminist with Sam Beckbessinger
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Sam Beckbessinger. Sam is the bestselling author of Manage Your Money Like a Fucking Grownup – a guide to help you take control of your money so you can take control of your life. As her website says “You’re going to earn plenty of money over your lifetime.…
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S1, E10: Helen Moffett - Investigating feminist silences around infertility.
Today on the podcast I talk to Helen Moffett about reproductive justice, medical misogyny, and reimagining stories. Helen Moffett is an author, editor, academic and activist. Her publications include university textbooks, a treasury of landscape writings (Lovely Beyond Any Singing), a cricket…
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S1, E9: Owethu Makhathini - Anger, Intimate Justice, and Womanisms
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Owethu Makhathini. Owethu is an entrepreneur, writer and womanist. As a social media specialist, strategist and trend forecaster in the advertising industry her work has helped to build digital literacy in that field. Part of this was achieved by founding her...
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S1, E8: Professor Srila Roy - Feminist movements and reimagining power.
Srila Roy is associate professor of sociology and heads development studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the author of the book, Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement (Oxford, 2012), editor of New South Asian...
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Living While Feminist is a podcast in celebration of living a feminist life. Each week it features a feminist from South Africa and the world so that we can listen to and draw from their experiences to embolden our own. Hosted by feminist author, writer, and researcher, Jen Thorpe.
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