Kylie Maslen's debut, Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with invisible illness, is a revelation. Released in late 2020, in early 2021 the work has already been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

In this interview, Kylie talks to Jamila and Astrid about navigating the confusing complexities of chronic illness - in relationships, in professional life, and in the health system itself.

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is sponsored by Hachette Publishing and is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman.

Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider confusion, and how books - especially self-help books - can sometimes be just what you need. 

Chapter 2: Astrid introduces Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere.

Chapter 3: Jamila explores Sanjay Gupta's Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age.

Recommendations: Astrid gets rather excited about The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. Jamila recommends More than a Woman by Caitlin Moran.

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is sponsored by Hachette Publishing and is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brit Bennett is an American writer with a brilliant track record. Her debut novel The Mothers (2016) was a New York Times best-seller, as was her second novel, The Vanishing Half (2020).

In this interview, Brit talks to Jamila and Astrid about her brilliant novels, and also about some big topics - passing, colourism and the state of the publishing industry.

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is sponsored by Hachette Publishing and is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous Was a Woman.

Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what it means to feel like you belong.

Chapter 2: Jamila introduces Top End Girl, Miranda Tapsell's 2020 memoir.

Chapter 3: Astrid discusses The Loudness of Unsaid Things, the debut novel by Hilde Hinton.

Recommendations: Jamila recommends Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez. Astrid recommends Growing Up Disabled in Australia, which is edited by Carly Findlay.

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is sponsored by Hachette Publishing and is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Have a grumpy uncle you need to buy a Christmas gift for? Or what about your mum who has read everything already? Or do you want something uplifting for the person you love who is struggling? Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are here to help with all the Christmas book recommendations you need (and probably some that you don't).

To buy or read more about the books discussed in this episode, visit https://www.hachette.com.au/collections/future-women-festive-special 

And in other news, Anonymous Was A Woman will be back throughout 2021 thanks to Hachette Publishing. Our first episode to kick off the year will be released in late January 2021. Subscribe so you don’t miss it!

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is brought to you by Future Women and Hachette Australia. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rick Morton joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider justice in both our personal ives and the society we live in. 

Rick is an award-winning journalist and a Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper.

His memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, longlisted for the Walkley Book of the Year, and longlisted for both Biography Book of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year for the ABIA Awards. His second work, On Money, will hit the shelves before Christmas.

This is the final episode in Season 2, but we hope to be back with you soon.

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider how justice - that greatest of concepts - appears in recent fiction and non-fiction. 

Chapter 1: What does justice have to do with books?

Chapter 2: Jamila considers 'wokeness' and racial justice in her reading of Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid.

Chapter 3: Astrid considers climate and intergenerational justice as discussed in Naomi Klein's On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal.

Recommendations: Jamila recommends the legal classic from Helen Garner, Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law. Astrid takes a different approach and lists the fiction and non-fiction recommendations that consider the climate crisis previously recommended from Seasons 1 and 2 of Anonymous Was A Woman.

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rebecca Huntley joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider fortitude, and specifically where we find it and how we use it to address the climate crisis.

Rebecca is one of Australia's most experienced social researchers and former director of The Mind and Mood Report, the longest running measure of the nation's attitudes and trends. She is a member of Al Gore's Climate Reality Corps, carries out social research for NGOs such as The Wilderness Society and WWF, and writes and presents for the ABC. Her latest book is How To Talk About Climate Change In A Way That Makes A Difference.

Join us on Monday for an episode on justice.

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards explore the concept of fortitude in both life and literature. 

Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what fortitude means to them.

Chapter 2: Jamila brings back The White Girl, the award-winning 2019 novel by Tony Birch. 

Chapter 3: Astrid ponders A Better Death: Conversations about the Art of Living and Dying Well by Dr Ranjana Srivastava.

Recommendations: Astrid recommends Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with invisible illness by Kylie Maslen. Jamila introduces Untold Resilience: Stories of courage, survival and love from women who have gone before.

Join us on Thursday for an interview on fortitude with Rebcca Huntley.

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Angela Saini joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider momentum for change, particularly in relation to science and what we consider fact.

Angela is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. Her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science was published in 2019 and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Foyles Book of the Year. Her previous book, Inferior: How science got women wrong, was published in 2017 and received the Physics World Book of the Year.

Angela presents radio and television programmes for the BBC, and her writing also appears in New Scientist, Prospect, The Sunday Times, Wired, and National Geographic. 

Join us on Monday for an episode on fortitude.

CHAT WITH US

Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation.

This podcast is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.