on this week's episode we’re joined by English actress Mia Rodgers who is known for her breakout role as Taylor in HBO’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. She also starred in Angel Studios’ Young Washington, the ITV drama Trauma and BBC’s Defending the Guilty.

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this week, we're joined by Taiwanese-Chinese entrepreneur and multidisciplinary artist Grace Ko. Grace is best known for her jewellery business, Baobei 宝贝, hearing protection company, Sets and Lingerie brand Baoje. As an artist, her practice has included fashion design, modelling, writing, painting, dancing and hosting community events. Her instinct is to use multiple creative outlets to share one idea.

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we're joined by British writer, organiser, filmmaker and managing editor and founder of Short Stuff magazine Molly Lipson. Molly's writing has been featured on platforms such as Little White Lies, The New York Times, Service95, Dazed, Atmos, Rolling Stone, VICE and many more and engages in complex socio-political issues through a lens of liberation and abolition.

Short Stuff is a magazine dedicated to providing short films with the same media coverage that features receive by publishing cultural deep dives, reviews, think pieces, stories of how shorts have changed our perspective on the world, the intersection between short film and society, community, tech, sport, beauty, gender and everything in between.

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a note from Molly:

I wanted to add a note about abolition - the word itself is a bit misleading – abolition is actually all about what we build, nourish and grow to create a world where, rather than waiting for something bad to happen and then punishing people after the fact, we seek to reduce, minimise and eliminate harm and violence by tackling the root causes. In most cases, these root causes come from big structural things like poverty, racism, colonialism, climate collapse, and cycles of harm created through a lack of intervention and the deepening of racial capitalism: childhood trauma, addiction and other mental health issue, queer phobia, etc.

Though abolition is against punishment, it is not against accountability. I would argue that abolitionists take accountability far more seriously than we possibly can in a capitalist world that prioritises punishment and vengeance. The transformative justice approach that we focus on emerged from survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Abolition is built on the shoulders of Black, brown, queer femmes across the world, especially in the Global Majority world.

For further reading I really encourage you to engage with:

•⁠ ⁠Abolition Revolution by Aviah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean

•⁠ ⁠Brick by Brick by Cradle Community

There are endless resources out there so I’ll just share this one from Abolitionist Futures.

My final note is that abolitionists can sometimes use jargon heavy, overly-academic language and I know how difficult that can be to engage with. If you can, stick with it and keep untangling the ideas as best you can, chat about it with your friends and family, make notes, draw your dream world. The ideas themselves really aren’t that complicated and the world we want is well within our reach.

we're joined by Brazilian singer/songwriter Nonô whose songs have accumulated over 500 million streams on Spotify and have been featured on FIFA and EA Formula 1. She's written songs for household names such as Joel Corry, Charli XCX, Saweetie and INNA and has collaborated with artists such as David Guetta, Amin van Buuren, Goodboys, Sofi Tucker and Alok on her own songs.

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we're joined by writer/director Thea Gajic whose debut feature film SURVIVING EARTH just released in UK cinemas after premiering at sxsw in 2025.

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we're joined by Intimacy Coordinator Stella Moss to talk about all things nudity, sex and intimacy on screen. We may have spoken about Heated Rivalry...

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we're joined by Short Stuff's Natalia Albin and Julia Black Jackson to chat about this year's BAFTA nominated short films. spoiler alert - they're SICK

films

animated

Two Black Boys in Paradise by Baz Sells

Cardboard by Jean-Philippe Vine

Solstice by Luke Angus

british short

Terence by Edem Kelman

Nostalgie by Kathryn Ferguson

Welcome Home Freckles by Huiju Park

This is Endometriosis by Georgie Wileman and Matt Houghton

Magid/Zafar by Luis Hindman

Short Stuff is a magazine that aims to lavish short film with the love, dedication and analysis it deserves, giving shorts the same type and depth of coverage as features. check them out here

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welcome to cherry on top, a podcast by CHERRYPICK!

in this new series we'll chat to the people behind some of your favorite films, books, songs and shows about how they work, what inspires them and how they got there.

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