In Too Deep

I’m fairly certain we’ve all noticed the celebrity anorexia trend becoming blatantly apparent in the last year or so. But another trend occurring concurrently in Hollywood is the form of modern slavery known as surrogacy. It’s glaring and flagrant how many (oftentimes very skinny) famous women are hiring women of a lower socioeconomic class to birth babies for them. Yet, while celebrities are becoming skinnier, the general population is going further and further in the opposite direction. Women cannot strive for this unreachable standard, so often become discouraged from fitness and its culture in general. A synchronicity of anorexia and obesity emerges with a negative correlation linked to class. All the while, less privileged women are being forced to sell a life-threatening bodily function to those who feel “the right” to have children. The body itself is always a battleground for women and girls.

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Chapters ~

00:00 Intro

10:07 The eating disorder as a patriarchal weapon

23:19 Feminised fitness

38:30 Surrogacy as slavery

53:55 Reinterpreting surrogacy

59:55 Conclusion: the body

This episode was brought about by the recent incident of Grok generating thousands of explicit images of non-consenting women and girls at the request of male Twitter users. Generative AI being used for deepfakes has become a pertinent issue in recent years, but it's not the only way technology is being used to subjugate women. Sexual harassment over video games and in VR (so-called Meta-rape) alongside sex robots with AI encoded personalities in cyberbrothels, has brought about a new age of misogyny, discussed extensively in Laura Bates recent book. I'll also be discussing some problems with cyberfeminism of the 90s and how we could bring about a new feminist consciousness with the 'technofeminist framework' described by sociologist Judy Wacjman.

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Chapters ☆

Intro 00:00

Generative AI & Deepfakes 5:46

Slave Robots & Virtual Assault 26:08

What is Cyberfeminism? 45:33

Conclusion: Radical Technofeminism 58:07

Likely my most requested episode … I’m finally talking about dark romance. Since Fifty Shades, the publishing of dark romance books has become a literal pandemic, particularly with the shift to dark romantasy, bringing about books like ACOTAR, and Alchemised. I wanted to discuss the roots of this literature, whether that’s actual dark, gothic, romanticism or Marquis De Sade type erotica. #BookTok has played a huge role in the dark romance push, commonly recommending very mature content to young women on TikTok. But how far can this content go? Should romantic content including rape, incest, and bestiality be allowed, or should it be censored? Regardless, these popular books are having negative impacts on perceptions of relationships and consent for those who consume them, so what can be done about it?

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Chapters ~

Intro & Romance History 00:00

Erotica as Pornography 15:30

#BookTok Victims and Colleen Hoover 25:00

Dark Romantasy 35:03

The Extreme, AO3, & Censorship 47:18

Conclusion: Woman as Class 58:40

In this episode I’m discussing how conservatives have turned to hijacking women’s rights in order to push a political agenda, namely that of anti-immigration. With gendered violence becoming more notable on a global scale, politicians have been pushed to include it in their campaigns, though many of these right wing political parties do not actually care about women, and rather use it as a fearmongering tactic to further racist rhetoric. Femicide particularly, is often treated without empathy and rather weaponised against migrants and asylum seekers, which only jeopardises the safety of women in this cohort further. With this in mind, I’m discussing the concept of femonationalism in both European and American contexts, touching on the ‘war on terror’ and Donald Trump in more recent years. As right wing figures position immigrants as inherently sexually violent, “homegrown” incel violence grows on their own turf, creating yet more hypocrisy in their discussions of violence against women. Basically… this is a warning to not fall for the conservatives lies!

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Resources ~

Ben-nun S, (2025) “Israel rape crisis centers report 51,000 cases as ministries withhold key data” The Jerusalem Post

Bohn L, (2018) “‘We’re All Handcuffed in This Country.’ Why Afghanistan Is Still the Worst Place in the World to Be a Woman” TIME

Bonhomme E, (2019) “The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism’” The Nation

Bingham L, (2025) “Nationalism, Femicide, and New Masculinities: the far-right’s weaponisation of violence against women” Pivot

Dombrowski V, (2024) “Far-right feminists? The exploitation of women’s rights and what’s behind it” The Progressive Post

Farris S, (2017) “In the Name of Women's Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism” Duke University Press

Gentry CE, (2022) “Misogynistic terrorism: it has always been here” Critical Studies on Terrorism

Hinckley T, (2023) “The makings of an all-American incel” UConn The Daily Campus

Neate R, (2015) “Donald Trump doubles down on Mexico 'rapists' comments despite outrage” The Guardian

Sager M & Mulinar D, (2018) “Safety for whom? Exploring femonationalism and care-racism in Sweden” Women’s Studies International Forum

Srinivasan A, (2021) “The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century” Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Staudinger A, (2021) “Moving from victim-blaming and racialisation to a diversified transnational response to gendered violence in Austria” Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research

Stracqualursi V & Landers E, (2018) “Trump claims female migrants ‘are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before” CNN

UN, (2019) “Global Study on Homicide: Gender-related killing of women and girls” United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

UN, (2025) “More than a human can bear: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023” United Nations Human Rights

Vink D et. al, (2024) “Because They Are Women in a Man’s World: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Incel Violent Extremists and the Stories They Tell” Terrorism and Political Violence

Willahan E, (2019) “All The Terrorism We Cannot See: misogyny, whiteness, and radicalisation in the digital age” Oxford Political Review

Ziolkowski L, (2020) “From Libertine to Incel: How the "Manosphere" Fostered the Continuation of Gender Violence in Western Culture” Bucknell University

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Chapters ~

00:00 Intro & Anti-Immigration Rallies

7:30 The Femicide Pandemic

20:00 European Femonationalism

33:30 The War on Terror Did Not Liberate Women

38:00 Trump’s America

42:08 Homegrown Incel Violence

49:09 Conclusion

Hi I’m back! This episode is all about misogynistic beauty ideals and how they’re taken advantage of in order to market scientific misconceptions to female consumers. I wanted to debunk the idea that anything that goes against the oppressive beauty industry is inherently positive. While a distrust in science under a Trump presidency and podcast bro informed society increases, pseudoscientific beliefs and scientific illiteracy are particularly dangerous and should be wholly rejected from feminist spaces. I’ll be discussing some common misconceptions surrounding cosmetic ingredients alongside the misogynistic principles which determine how a woman is expected to exist in terms of her hair, face, and body.

*I made some comments about how frequently people should wash their hair and how it's kinda gross to go longer than week - this refers strictly to the type of people who have told me to "oil train" in the past (usually white hair dressers hahaha). I understand many types of black hair are better to be washed less frequently due to the fact that sebum spreads less evenly on super coiled hair types, which would lead to dryness if washed too often. Even in general, it's often not the hair that needs washing but the scalp itself due to factors I mentioned such as yeast overgrowth and irritation. :D

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References ~

Belcadi J et. al, (2025) “Preconceived ideas in hair care” International Journal of Women’s Dermatology

Columbia University, (2024) “Shining a Light on Sun Safety: Debunking TikTok’s Anti-Sunscreen Claims” CU Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Centre

Chang LY et. al, (2025) “Evolution of long scalp hair in humans” British Journal of Dermatology

European Union, (2025) “TPO in Nail Products – Questions & Answers” European Commission

Le M, (2023) “Deadly Cosmetic Myths and the Lies of "Clean Beauty" Marketing” Video Essay, Youtube

Mackinnon KJ, (2024) “What is the Anti-SPF movement on TikTok?” ABC PM

Thompson C, (2009) “Black Women, Beauty, and Hair as a Matter of Being” Women’s Studies

Weitz R, (2001) “Women and Their Hair: Seeking Power through Resistance and Accommodation” Gender and Society

Wong M, (2024) “The Science of Beauty” DK London

Chapters ~

00:00 Intro

11:50 Brief History

16:46 Hair

31:00 Skin

43:00 Nails

52:20 Conclusion

Welcome back! In this episode, I’m discussing the recent discourse surrounding Sabrina Carpenter, using her marketing and brand as a case study to discuss female choice sexuality and the sex icon blonde bombshells that have come before her. Her recent album cover, but more specifically the alternate version supposedly “approved by god,” references a picture of Marilyn Monroe, an icon of the sexual liberation movement who unfortunately cannot be mentioned without her male icon counterpart, Hugh Hefner. Sabrina’s lolita, sexy baby aesthetic can also not be discussed without mention of incest, which is effectively the cradle of sexual politics, particularly in American culture. Is the recent uptick in women returning to “feminine” aesthetics rather just a result of men’s beloved fetishisation of childlike and paedophilic ideals? I also go into Dworkin’s idea of sexual intelligence, an integral but almost unattainable part of women’s rights, and how we can perhaps go about fixing the wrongs of the “unfinished” sexual liberation movement.

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References ~

Armstrong L, (1996) “Rocking The Cradle of Sexual Politics: What Happened When Women Said Incest” Addison Wesley Publishing Company

Dworkin A, (1978) “Right Wing Women” Perigee Books

Hurley J, (2024) “your fave is selling a pedophilic fantasy” Jade Fax, Substack

Perry L, (2022) “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution” Polity Books

Rush F, (1971) “The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View” Speech, presented at 1971 New York Radical Feminists Rape Conference

Survivors’ Network (2023) “What we learned from Pamela Anderson’s ‘A Love Story’ Documentary”

Chapters ~

00:00 Intro

8:12 Marilyn Monroe vs Hugh Hefner

19:39 The Paedophilic Fantasy

32:30 Omg Stop Blaming Women!

41:50 Remedying "Sex Positivity" with Sexual Intelligence

The subculture of mid-2000s pop punk is much more misogynistic than we remember. We’ve all heard about the emo band members getting accused of predatory behaviour in the past few years, but what was it about this genre of music that made performers so inclined to ask minors for nudes over Snapchat? Moreover, despite its devout misogyny, why were so many young women (me included!) still drawn to the genre? When looking back on this time, Paramore singer Hayley Williams becomes a beacon of female light in the crowd of guyliner adorned, “girl jeans” wearing metrosexual emo band members. So, let’s delve into the Misery Business that was 2000s emo music.

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References ~

Benjamin S, (2017) “How Mid-2000s Emo Groomed Underage Girls and Poisoned Teen Boys” Meanjin

de Boise S, (2014) “Cheer up emo kid: rethinking the ‘crisis of masculinity’ in emo” Popular Music

Hopper J, (2003) “Where the Girls Aren’t” Rookie

Payne C, (2023) “Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008” Dey Street Books

Pelly R, (2017) “Unraveling the Sexism of Emo’s Third Wave” Pitchfork

Powers A, (2015) “The Cruel Truth About Rock and Roll” NPR

Sherman M, (2020) “The Miserable Business of Emo Masculinity” Jezebal

Honourable mention: Abdurraqib H, (2017) “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us” Two Dollar Radio

Chapters ~

00:00 Intro

6:02 Being Female in the Emo Scene

10:04 The misogyny and the allegations

26:28 Emo Gender

38:46 Hayley Williams

In today’s episode we’re discussing the connections between feminism and veganism by focusing on the book ‘The Sexual Politics of Meat’ by Carol J. Adams. In particular, I wanted to talk about the masculinisation of meat and how it relates to male and white supremacy. We’re also going into the term ‘absent referent’ to discuss how the treatment of women and animals is oftentimes similar. From non-technological societies to a Carl’s Jr Super Bowl ad, how has meat-eating upheld the patriarchy?

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Adams CJ, (2025) “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critique, 35th Anniversary Edition” Bloomsbury Publishing

BBC, (2020) “Why black Americans are more likely to be vegan”

Berg N, (2019) “Drive-thru brothels: why cities are building ‘sexual infrastructure’” The Guardian

Deckha M, (2020) “Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders” University of Toronto Press

Enochs E, (2018) “To Uphold My Feminist Values, I Went Vegan” The Establishment

Gregory D, (1968) “The Shadow That Scares Me” Doubleday

Leghorn L & Roodkowsky M, (1977) “Who Really Starves? Women and World Hunger” Friendship Press

Slade J & Alleyne E, (2021) “The Psychological Impact of Slaughterhouse Employment: A Systematic Literature Review” Trauma Violence Abuse

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Chapters~

00:00 My Experience w/ Veganism

8:50 The Sexual Politics of Meat

11:50 Meat as Masculine

20:11 The Racialised Politics of Meat

28:08 Economy, Gender, & Meat

30:23 The Absent Referent and Sexualised Animals

38:07 Similarities & Connections Between Veganism & Feminism

Another book review episode this week! I'll be talking about two really good philosophical books about sex in the modern age and from different feminist perspectives. I'm also discussing Julia Fox's memoir and how it was literally traumatising, as well as two dystopian books, including the new Hunger Games!

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Feb-Mar Books ~

00:00 Intro

2:30 The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivisan

19:42 The Agony of Eros by Byung-chul Han

36:45 Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au

39:05 Down the Drain by Julia Fox

42:14 Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

47:49 You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson

Feminism often gets the criticism of having a very white history. In this episode, I’ll be discussing some prominent feminist thinkers, their respective waves, and the ethnocentrism which at times skewed their analyses to the West. Liberal feminism specifically is very based in the rights of white women only, but I’ll also be discussing how liberalism itself is inherently damaging and would need to be eradicated for any true social revolution. The many different branches of feminism and our obsession with identity politics has also created fertile ground for so much disagreement between groups who for the most part do agree with each other, such as radical, Marxist, and intersectional feminists. I also discuss how more than one idea can be true at once and how feminist groups should attempt to come together to reach our similar goals.

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Resources ~

Anonymous, (2025) “Surviving in Silence: Aboriginal Women’s Resistance to Rape and Sex-Based Violence” Issue 1, Total Woman Victory

Caine B, (2024) “Kate Millett pioneered the term ‘sexual politics’ and explained the links between sex and power. Her book changed my life” The Conversation

Hooks B, (2004) ‘The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love’ Washington Square Press

Lee K, (2021) “Simone de Beauvoir” Woman is a Rational Animal, The University of Chicago

Mills E & Koyle KM, (2024) “Race, Pseudoscience, and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” Circulating Now, National Library of Medicine

Pardis, (2025) “The Poverty of Sex” Issue 2, Total Woman Victory

Patel S, (2025) “The Sex Contradiction” Issue 2, Total Woman Victory

Sankara T, (1987) “Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle” Pathfinder Press

Thompson K, (2023) “Postmodern Feminism” Revise Sociology

Chapters ~

00:00 Intro

04:13 Strands of Feminism & Interconnectedness

20:18 Some Prominent Feminist Thinkers

37:34 On Liberalism

40:48 Notable Essays from Total Woman Victory