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Vanity Project
by Laura and Charles
Loose-lipped libertines, Laura and Charles are balls-deep in their search for the last taboo. Vanity Project is a place for indefensible obsessions. It’s an aphrodisiac! It’s a confession! It’s a pillow fight! It’s a kiss! If artists are here to disturb the peace, then podcasters are here to bring peace to the disturbed. You're going to feel it in your panties!
Episodes
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GOSSIP: LIVE from AGNSW
What do you call a group of women? Charles and Laura are recruited to articulate gossip, that which determines a social fabric, which was so threatening to patriarchal order that it sparked the witch trials, and may take up the majority of our speaking lives. We talk 16th century torture devices,...
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Three Colours: Red
We don't know if you’re RED-y for this comeback… but Vanity Project have finally green-lit the return of their THREE COLOURS series! Charles and Laura uncover their taboo attraction to the colour that codes danger, gore, life, and death. What do Isabelle Huppert and Laura, a week before her...
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Three Colours: White
Vanity Project are proud to present the first in the forthcoming trilogy of THREE COLOURS: White. In their first ever multi-episode saga Vanity Project daringly go where the likes of Aristotle and an exploratory lone monkey have gone before: to the White Material that made you. It’s an episode...
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The Most Famous Laura
Who is the most famous Laura? It’s not the one in Vanity Project! In our Actress Double Feature reprise all eyes are on birthday girl Laura Dern. Four-time Academy-Awarded Best Actress Katherine Hepburn once said: "Show me an actress who isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a...
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2025: A Chaste Odyssey
Vanity Project are back! And this year they’re finally cleaning up their act! For the first time in a long time, Laura and Charles are fully clothed and somewhat researched. Following their threesome themed third birthday, they return with a speculative ficto-critical question that demands an...
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Phallic Mother with Lottie World
This is Vanity Project’s most UNIQUE episode so far. Fierce contender for the coveted Third spot, Lottie World, joins the podcasters and takes them to a very special place… A place where Phallic Mothers meet Vaginal Fathers and we all sing Kumbaya. Star singer, entertainer, and storyteller Lottie...
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Lipstick Thespian with Janet Anderson
Vanity Project are Looking For A Third, and the final judge to help them is none other than Janet Anderson! For the unitiated, Janet is a star of the stage and screen, occasional nightlife icon, and permanent effervescent beauty. Did you ever watch Glee? Or judge a fashion show in the Bronx? Have...
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100th Episode
Now three years and 100 episodes in, Vanity Project receive a mysterious unmarked letter, sealed with a loving kiss from The Queen. What happens at 100? Few dare to dream of reaching the milestone, fewer have the honour of telling the tale… It doesn’t matter if you joined Vanity Project at their...
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Oomf with Gus McGrath and Marcus Whale
Charles and Laura and joined by not one, but TWO potential candidates for their lucky third. Vanity Project has been graced by the talents that are Gus McGrath and Marcus Whale in a four-way verbal spar that has you asking, who’s sitting in whose lap? You may know Gus and Marcus from their FBI...
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Barbarism with Theo Lathouras
Good things come in threes, and in this week’s ménage a trois Vanity Project is joined by part-time Donatella Versace impersonator, full-time Darlinghurst correspondent Theo Lathouras! Now, a mere three weeks away from Vanity Project: Looking for a Third, Laura and Charles are joined by their…
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Go Harder with Lily Golightly
Charles and Laura are joined by the second judge of Looking For A Third, Lily Golightly! Many have tried to wrangle Lily Golightly behind a mic, few have succeeded. But now that Vanity Project has her hostage, you’ll be begging “Lily GoHarder!” Lily makes Vanity Project into Woo girls as they…
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144 Virgins with Michael Sun
Vanity Project are breaking their silence on threesomes, virgins, and their third birthday (you’re invited), with none other than Michael Sun! Michael is not afraid to say it like it is, which is why he will be the perfect adjudicator of Vanity Project’s perfect third. Listen to Michael’s waxing...
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Sissy that Wark
This week, Vanity Project went to Queer Ppt at AGNSW, so that you didn’t have to! We are instructed: one must imagine your grandmother horny...which brings us to McKenzie Wark! We all remember where we were on 9/11, right? Well not Vanity Project, we were too young. But this year ex-Novacastrian,...
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Fag/Hagdom
When did Charles become a fag? When did Laura become a hag? Together, Vanity Project explore a sexless, but very sexy dialectic: this time, in the form of an introductory reading for the “Fag/Hag” launch. The new book by Max Fox and Madeline Laine-MicKinley published by Rosa Press and launched on...
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Porn Corner: The James Charles Fappening PATREON EXXXCLUSIVE LEAKED
Laura and Charles address the last vanguard of perversion in our society in the form of a recently leaked sex tape. Pledge allegiance to the struggle: https://www.patreon.com/vanity_project
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Ian Mapplethorpe
It’s no secret Vanity Project has been taking frequent trips to the sauna, not least of all the one at Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre in the heart of steamy sex sydney! Come join Charles and Laura as they uncover the mystery of the Man-Hole, and find themselves in a sticky situation with one of...
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Gay Museum
Vanity Project takes a trip down the golden mile, down the mineshaft, and into the trough (Proudly Presented to you by 357). Yes, Vanity Project visited the gay museum. Yes, there’s a gay museum in Sydney. What can you see through the arch window? The peep hole? The glory hole? Qtopia invokes...
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Forget Gala
It’s “The Met” as in “The Metropolitan Museum of Art” and not “The Met Gala,” you f****t. On the first Tuesday of May we turn our attention to the attendees of Vogue’s reason for the season. This year it opened an exhibition called The Garden of Time, based on a short story of the same name in...
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New York City: The Lost Tapes
This week, Vanity Project recover lost tapes from one of their perfect days in New York City. Laura and Charles are in need of a fresh perspective (one that isn't looking down at the crotch!). What can be said about the city that never sleeps? Join Vanity Project as they traverse the island of...
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Sydney's Tortured Poets Department
Vanity Project split up! Last week a scene war was waged. One audience was divided over two venues. In a single evening more than sixteen tortured poets sang their sonnets (Jerk Off Instructions) between the Nicholson Building of Haymarket and the barren art school campus of Paddington. As…
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Nowhere is Safe in LA
After their controversial municipal polemic Sex Sydney vs. Neuter Naarm, Vanity Project cross the pacific to form a definitive thesis about Los Angeles. Vanity Project look beyond Tinseltown and towards Nowhere. Sitting at erewhoN sipping on their Kin Euphorics, Vanity Project make like…
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Queen of Melrose *THE VANITY PROJECT INTERVIEW*
"Who's Melly Meldrum?" the Queen of Melrose asked Vanity Project after the Madonna show. All rise for Queen Cosmo, LA icon, internet sensation, fashionista, Madonna-truther and friend of the pod. When Vanity Project met Cosmo in the line for the Kia Forum coatcheck, they didn’t know what hit…
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Live to Tell
In sunny Los Angeles, Vanity Project are finally ready to relive the night they died and were reborn! In early March, VP donned their individually stoned MOTHER F★CKER tank tops and high tailed it to Tinseltown to see Madonna live in concert. This is their definitive Madonna Celebration Tour...
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Four Letter Word
This week we ask, what does Daily Male mean when they say “Make Oxford St Great Again”? How do you get Cancelled Twice 💋? Can you wear the Rick Owens “URINAL” shirt to a family gathering? This episode Vanity Project is rewriting the slogan tee, and it says I ♥️ [hate] Melbourne. We trace its...
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Strangers with Candy
This week, Vanity Project is asking what’s in a name? We have a sweet tooth, and we’re double dipping in Hard Candy (2005, 2008). In the countdown to their adventure to Tinseltown for the Madonna Celebration tour we remember the album Madonna has chosen to forget, and the infamous pedo revenge...
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Luck Boner
We are Vanity Project, whom no man will ever possess! We would be only too happy to become world dictators if only to fulfill our mission: the destruction of the last vestigial traces of traditional manhood in the race to realign the sexes, thus reducing population, while increasing human…
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Adult Baby *TEASER*
In this Patreon exclusive Vanity Project use Poor Things (2023) to finally talk about the big topics. Sure, Lanthimos’ new film might be about a Frankensteinian pedophilia problem, but Charles and Laura want to talk about the Ball Drop. While we’re still in a festive mood from New Years we’re...
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Beare Park Fashion Show
Vanity Project is back. And this time they are on the loose! The team at Beare Park gave the girls special media access to cover the first ever fashion show at Elizabeth Bay's most beautiful pleasure playground! As they retrace their steps through the notorious beat, the girls are forced to...
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Butch Please with Sydney Jarrett
It’s no secret Vanity Project are obsessed with Sydney and this week, they are fortunate enough to sit down with legendary performance artist Sydney Jarrett of Post Poems Collective. Their reappearance is a long time coming, and this time we’re here to say: Butch Is Not A Dirty Word! They trace a...
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Vomity Project
Vanity Project’s new treatise is as follows: if you are thinking about giving a standing ovation, vomit. If you are a little too drunk, vomit. Do you believe in bulimia? Vomit. Are you an exhibitionist looking for a new act? Get vomited on. That’s what’s known in these parts as a Roman Shower!...
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What Turns You On *TEASER*
"What turns you on?" Laura asks Charles. "Oh my god...so much!" There is a spectre haunting the consciousness of gay people and this week the girls are speculating about the size of that spectre. In this Patreon exclusive, Vanity Project takes on Troye Sivan’s new album, Something To Give Each...
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Binocheathon with Indigo Bailey
Laura and Charles sit down with new friend, writer, and illustrator, Indigo Bailey (recently published in Kill Your Darlings, Island Magazine, and editor of Voiceworks) for the latest instalment of our long tradition of Diva Double Features. This time we take aim at one-miss Juliette Binoche. The...
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Bye Bottoms *TEASER*
Vanity Project is moving to fortnightly paywalled content. Pledge allegiance to the struggle: https://www.patreon.com/vanity_project International Lesbian Day may have passed us by, but we did watch the movie Bottoms (2023), and even still no one wants to say The L Word. They don’t even say the...
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Endless Fashion with Angel Robertson
Between us down there Vanity Project is joined by a real-life Angel. This is the Spring Summer 24 crescendo, and we’re finishing with one night in Paris. Angel Robertson offers insight into the exquisite pain of designing, and the slightly less exquisite agony of a bug infestation in the beds of...
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Dressing for Pleasure with Carmencita *TEASER*
Vanity Project is moving to fortnightly paywalled content. Pledge allegiance to the struggle: https://www.patreon.com/vanity_project The girls are back with bestie-of-the-pod Carmencita! Like a hard cock, they reluctantly rise to the occasion and continue to talk about fashion week in Milan. Over…
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Cocks with Plumage
Australia's very own Tr*nny and Susannah are back behind the mic reporting on the inner-beauty pageant that is London Fashion Week. They discuss the relevance of London and the UK as a fashion metropole for global fashions. God only knows why FKA Twigs and Cara Delevigne are raising consciousness...
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On Earth We're Briefly Vanity Project
To paraphrase Collina Strada, “Everything sucks. We’re all doomed. The world’s on fire, but we’re doing another episode about fashion shows because that’s what we know how to do”. Strap in for the first episode of four weeks of epic fashion week coverage and conversation recorded on the…
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Neuter Naarm vs. Sex Sydney
After a few too many trips to Melbourne, Laura and Charles ask one another "Are you having fun down there?" The girls inflame the age-old rivalry between the two Australian cities, insisting that nobody in Naarm is getting any. Sydney is the city of sex and Vanity Project Knows Good Sex. This...
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Toothache with Francis Carmody for un Extended
Charles and Laura sit down with Gertrude Studio artist and man who wears many hats, Francis Carmody, in a new commission for un Extended. They dive deep into Francis' practice and reveal the man behind the alibi. Francis' compulsion to curiosity suits Vanity Project just fine, after all, we have...
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Your Royal Hardness
Is there anything sexy about an Amazon Prime made-for-streaming adaptation of a Young Adult novel? And what if it was an independent Arthouse film about the Republic of France topping the monarchy of The Netherlands? This is the definitive ruling on the latest homonationalist propaganda movie…
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Thrust it with Belle Beasley
This week, the girls have invited the gorgeous dancer and writer Belle Beasley to chat about the infamous, and now arguably well-loved Showgirls (1995). Vanity Project says, Showgirls won the culture war! Fix yourself a plate of doggie chow and enjoy this hour-long lap dance. Hide your pearls…
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In Bed with Vanity Project
For this tell-all interview, Laura and Charles join the one and only Joan Rivers under the covers for one last episode of her online mini-series 'In Bed with Joan'. And because the girls are such generous power-bottoms, they've allowed their extra-special guest the chance to interview them!…
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Doll Parts
Tentatively, Laura asks Charles, “…did you… like dolls?” It’s another transexually charged podcast. We have returned from the only city to cut off its own Penis-Tower, Newcastle, to give our definitive reading of the Barbie movie. Charles pronounces “Baudrillard” properly, and reads an excerpt of...
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Mother-Fucking Isabelle Huppert
In the grand tradition of actress studies and diva-worship, the girls are back with another very special Double Feature Pod. This time, they are talking about the cinematic exploits and successive slidings of pleasure as depicted by one miss Isabelle Huppert. Laura and Charles watch The Piano...
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Transgender Life
Charles and Laura are back in the closet [recording studio] to talk about transgender ideation [crossdressing fantasy]. We giggle nervously while we speak very, very openly about the ways we love and adore trans people, culture, aesthetics and ideology. Through Viscose’s newest issue “trans”, the...
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Salaryman
Finally, it’s just us girls, and Charles, just off the plane from Tokyo, is bursting with secrets. One listener asks “Charles, can I ask you a personal question? …What’s the craziest thing you did on your holiday?” This week we’re aligning our heart, pussy, and boner chakras the old-fashioned…
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Spiky Head vs Soft Centre with Drew Connor Holland
While Charles enjoys a writer’s strike of sorts on holiday in Tokyo, Laura sits down with Drew in the studio to talk everything art and AI. Laura and Drew, yes, probably could have just created an AI Charles to join them, but isn’t there something nice about a human touch? We talk creativity and...
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Terrible Twos Birthday Party: The Come Down
The girls are back on the mic after their triumphant second birthday party on June 7th! For those of you that have been living under a rock, Vanity Project is now officially two years old and they’re finally putting on their big girl panties! This week, Laura and Charles recap the night that was...
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Oi Catch with Miski
This week, for the fifth and final VPT2 interview, the girls are joined by the one and only Miski! Vanity Project: Terrible Twos is just one sleep away! It’s so close we can taste it! This is a masterclass in talking courtesy of #voicesbymiski. The girls chitchat about birthdays, stand-up…
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Naff with Elisabeth Sulich
This week the girls sit down with artist, poet, and proud horse girl Elisabeth Sulich for the fourth installment of VPT2 interviews in the lead-up to June 7th! They wax lyrical about mother's milk and arrive back at the platitude that god is a woman after all. And so they are left asking the…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Loose-lipped libertines, Laura and Charles are balls-deep in their search for the last taboo. Vanity Project is a place for indefensible obsessions. It’s an aphrodisiac! It’s a confession! It’s a pillow fight! It’s a kiss! If artists are here to disturb the peace, then podcasters are here to bring peace to the disturbed. You're going to feel it in your panties!
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Laura and Charles
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Loose-lipped libertines, Laura and Charles are balls-deep in their search for the last taboo. Vanity Project is a place for indefensible obsessions. It’s an aphrodisiac! It’s a confession! It’s a pillow fight! It’s a kiss! If artists are here to disturb the peace, then podcasters are here to bring...
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