On Agenda, we often talk to artists about the political significance of the club space in terms of resistance for marginalised communities. Sydney specifically has a long history of the club as a site of resistance, a space not only for dancing and music, but also for experimentation in performance art.

This week Katie was joined by artist Rainbow Chan and Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art Mikala Tai, who spoke about Club 4A, a performance art night happening at Dynasty Karaoke featuring Amrita Hepi, DEADKEBAB, Rainbow Chan and more.

This week we were joined by Audiocraft co-founder Kate Montague who spoke about Ladies Who Listen, a mentorship program for women in audio, as well as Audiocraft's podcast workshop on March 4 for All About Women.

We also spoke about Lady Doritos - Finally, women too can eat cornchips; Fuck Your Period -Pornhub offers free premium memberships for period-havers; and Waitangi Day - NZ PM Jacinda Ardern was given special permission to speak at the marae (meeting house) on the Waitangi grounds on the eve of the national holiday.

And for Thoughts That Count, we discussed Valentine's Day - is it feminist?

Today on Agenda, we had a chat with Black Divaz producer Michaela Perske and photographer Joseph Mayers for the Black Divas exhibition at the Bearded Tit happening from 25 January - 4 March.

We also heard from Cable Ties Jenny McKechnie on the growing callout culture surrounding gender representation in Australian music festival lineups.

Welcome back to Agenda on FBi Radio! We had our first show of 2018, highlighting some of the news and what we've been enjoying from over the break:

Patagonian feminist folk rap three-piece Femina, SZA and Kelela were amazing live;

We've been listening to Sovereign Trax's Invasion Day mix featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and global First Nations artists;

We read A World Without Whom, Bad Feminist, The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love

We loved Call Me By Your Name and its incredible soundtrack;

We also played some tracks from our Feel Your Feelings playlist, which we released at the end of 2017 with tips for creative burnout and songs recommended by some of the incredible guests and contributors to the show from the past year.

We had a chat with Matt Cornell from The Blokes Project, a new dance work exploring Australian masculinity and what it means to be a bloke today.

Today on Agenda:

- How to deal with creative burnout; symptoms and strategies /

- Theatre Network NSW Code of Behaviour to Prevent Sexual Harrassment and Abuses of Power /

- All good news only in Thoughts That Count /

- Claire Pullen chatted to us about Family Planning NSW /

- James Packer paid Mariah Carey millions as a result of their breakup "inconveniencing" her /

BYE 2017 WE'RE TIRED

This week we were joined by the Managing Director of MusicNSW Emily Collins, and Aboriginal theatre producer Ali Murphy-Oates, to talk about a new collective called Why Are You Winking At Me? offering strategies for disarming sexism for people working in the arts and cultural sector.

Thoughts That Count: Coming up to the holiday, we asked for your advice on how to navigate the holiday season, Christmas parties and family dinners in these complex political and social times.

And as always we gave you all the news and trash from the past week from a feminist perspective for our segment “go home everything is terrible”, including Nigeria’s first female bobsled team, writer Zinzi Clemmons’ decision to stop working with Lena Dunham, the incredible trailer for A Wrinkle in Time, plus more.

We were joined by photographer Liz Ham ahead of the launch of Punk Girls, a book documenting the Australian punk movement in its many guises, and most importantly the female identifying people that inhabit that world.

We also spoke about democratic victories for minority and LGBT candidates in the US, NAIDOC Week 2018, Louis CK and the latest in beauty pageant news.

Thoughts That Count: How do we split the bill in 2017? We heard from you about money in relationships and dating, and how intersections of privilege, gender and power affect how we split the bill.

This week were joined by Subeta Vimalarajah, one of the directors and co-founders of fEMPOWER Sydney, a program of feminist high school workshops, run by university students and young feminists. fEMPOWER Sydney aims to educate young people on feminist issues, ranging from representation in the media to sexual harassment and domestic violence, and hope to inspire students to form their own collectives and take action on these issues. fEMPOWER workshops are completely volunteer-run and by donation for public schools in New South Wales.

We also had a chat to Maddie from Girls Rock Sydney, which is part of a national network of Australian rock camps, and a wider global Girls Rock! community. Girls Rock! originated in Portland, Oregon in 2001, and has since spread across the world to the UK, Japan, Finland and more. Girls Rock Sydney is holding a fundraiser on November 4 at the Factory in Marrickville, with Mere Women, Party Dozen and more, ahead of their first camp in January 2018.

We heard from Niveen Abdelatty (HipHopHoe), a Sydney-based musician and DJ and a first generation Egyptian-Australian, about cultural appropriation on our segment Thoughts That Count.

We’ll also spoke about the American classes designed for men to unlearn toxic masculinity and consent classes in Kenyan schools.

This week we were joined by artists Okapi Neon and Jesse Rye ahead of Fully Sick, and exhibition opening on November 1 at First Draft Gallery. Curated by Okapi Neon & Willurai Kirkbright, Fully Sick is group exhibition showcasing the work of artists living with chronic illness, pain and disability.

For Thoughts That Count we heard from Pink Noise's Marisa Marsionis, Laneway Festival's Dom O'Connor and more on the topic of all-female festivals in Australia following the crowd-funded Statement festival in Sweden.

This week were joined by writer Julie Koh ahead of Boundless: A festival of diverse writers happening on October 28 at Bankstown Arts Centre.

We also took a look at #MeToo - does it ask too much of survivors? Plus, we spoke about the French equivalent Rat Out Your Pig and activist Tarana Burke who began the Me Too crusade 10 years ago specifically for women of colour.

Thoughts That Count: Who's responsibility for closing the gender wage gap in Australian sport? We heard from Ladies Who League founder Mary Konstantopoulos, sports journalist Kieran Wagstaff and our listeners on the topic.