On The Couch

What does it actually mean to create real cultural change? 

In this eye-opening and honest conversation, Winnie sits down with journalist and podcast creator Soaliha Iqbal to explore the intersections of politics, feminism, media trends, and anti-capitalism in a colonial world. 

Soaliha shares how her lived experience as a Muslim women in Australian has defined her voice within the Australian media landscape, using her platform to unpack the social, cultural, and political structures that shape our everyday lives. 

She reflects on the discomfort many people feel when talking about race, diversity, and inclusion. Instead of letting fear of “getting it wrong” hold us back, Soaliha shares why we should approach these conversations with honesty, courage, and a collaborative spirit.  

This episode was recorded in August 2025  

Read transcript here           

Recommendations  

Soaliha Website 

Soaliha Instagram 

Soaliha Substack 

References  

Here's The Thing Tho 

Mitch Price 

Here's The Thing Tho: Unsafe Vs Uncomfortable 

World Association of Sexual Health Congress 

Kai Schweizer 

Brave spaces 

Australian Child Maltreatment Study, 2023 

Understanding the Transgender Lived Experience with Transhub 

George Floyd Protests: A Timeline 

Black Lives Matter 

Say Their Names: Michael Brown 

Ethical Consent & Empowering Young People with Laura Crozier 

Translations by Jumaana Abdu 

Jumaana Abdu 

Learned Behaviors by Zeynab Gamieldien 

Zeynab Gamieldien 

What We're Reading Caddyshack Project 

Credits     

Host: Winnie Adamson 

Guest: Soaliha Iqbal  

Producers: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson  

Editing: Winnie Adamson  

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript)   

NSW Health social media community guidelines 

“It's super powerful to go into a space, a group of people who don't know anything about you, and you have that connection and that community.” Drag is more than just a performance of heightened gender expression; it’s a safe and affirming space for exploration.  

This honest and nuanced conversation explores the intersection of drag and the LGBTQIA+ community. It’s not drag 101, it’s a deep and vulnerable conversation about the role that drag plays in LGBTQIA+ advocacy. 

Maddy and Winnie yap with three incredible local Wollongong drag stars; Cherry-Ripe (she/her), Roxee Horror (she/her), and Lawrence of Australia (he/him) about the rise of drag in pop culture, performer and audience consent and drag as an ever-evolving industry. 

Get ready to have a laugh, be challenged and experience the personal stories that provide a unique insight into the heart of drag culture. 

This episode was recorded in March 2025  

Read transcript here          

Recommendations  

Roxee Horror 

Cherry Ripe 

Lawrence of Australia 

References  

Understanding Drag Blog 

Courtney Act 

Ru Paul's Drag Race 

Drag Expo Au 

Real butch: The performance/performativity of male impersonation, drag kings, passing as male, and stone butch realness

The Early Artistry of Male Impersonation

Rocky Horror Picture Show 

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert 

To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar 

Mrs Doubtfire 

Dating The Enemy 

White Chicks 

Hannah Gadsby's Nanette 

Communicative Approach to Consent with Dr Joy Townsend 

TransHealth, Medical Consent, Disability & Queer Healthcare with Axel-Nathaniel Rose 

Collective Holding, Community Care & Mutual Aid with Danyelle Mei Kaplan & Egan Magee 

LGBTQIA+ Community Care, Mental Health & Emotions with Chris Cheers 

Language, Feminism & the Queer Space with Kirli Saunders 

Credits     

Host: Winnie Adamson & Maddy Stratten 

Guest: Roxee Horror, Cherry-Ripe & Lawrence of Australia  

Producers: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson  

Editing: Winnie Adamson  

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript)   

NSW Health social media community guidelines  

Join us as we host Tom (he/him) and Adie (she/her) to discuss sex, relationships and consent and their work in answering young people’s sticky questions.   

Tom and Adie talk about their experiences working at Sexual Assault Support Service (SASS) and the inspirations that drove the production of the Sticky Q’s podcast as an educational tool. Sticky Q’s is a podcast where they answer anonymous questions, written on sticky notes from real life consent education classes. 

Listen as Tom and Adie share the frameworks they use to answer these sticky questions from young people. 

This episode was recorded in May 2025  

Read transcript here         

Recommendations  

Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society 

Australian National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health (SSASH survey) Report 

References  

Sticky Q’s Podcast 

Sticky Q’s Instagram 

Sexual Assault Support Service Tasmania 

TED Talk: Adie Delaney An Aerialist on Listening to your Body's Signals 

Safe Schools 

Australian Secondary Schools Survey 

Pop Culture Parenting 

Connor Beaton – Man Talks 

Public Health Student Placement & Podcasting with Jade Scott 

Society, Social Scripts & the Study of Sex with Jennifer Power 

Young People’s Digital Cultures & Sexual Health with Kath Albury 

Collective Holding, Community Care & Mutual Aid with Danyelle Mei Kaplan & Egan Magee 

LGBTQIA+ Community Care, Mental Health & Emotions with Chris Cheers 

What We’re Reading 

Caddyshack Project on Goodreads 

Play Safe 

Play Safe Pro 

Sexual Health InfoLink 

Credits     

Host: Winnie Adamson & Maddy Stratten 

Guest: Tom Duff & Adie Delaney  

Producers: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson  

Editing: Winnie Adamson  

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript)   

NSW Health social media community guidelines  

Join Naomi as she chats with Jennifer Power, a Principal Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University.  

Jennifer explores her research focused on sexuality, sexual health and HIV with Naomi, discussing her work on the Secondary Students and Sexual Health Survey and other studies relating to LGBTQIA+ wellbeing, young people and sexual health, and digital sexual health literacy.   

This episode was recorded in March 2025  

Read transcript here        

Recommendations  

Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society 

Australian National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health (SSASH survey) Report 

References  

Tech, Sex and Health 

Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society 

NHMRC 

Dr Christopher Fox 

Professor Ruth McNair 

Professor Marian Pitts 

HIV Futures Publications 

Australian National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health (SSASH survey) Report 

HIV Antiretroviral Treatment 

Student Edge 

Fifth National Sexually Transmissible Infections Strategy 2024–2030 

Australasian Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference 

Caddyshack Sexual Health Sticker Set 

Sexting and Sending Nudes - eSafety Commissioner 

ASHM Conference 

ACON 

Acceptance and use of condoms amongst school aged young people in Australia 

Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) 

Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) 

Movement, knowledge, emotion, Gay activism- and HIV/AIDS in Australia 

On The Couch: Young People’s Digital Cultures & Sexual Health with Kath Albury 

Lech Blaine 

Play Safe Pro 

Play Safe Pro - Condom Games 

Ending HIV 

Emen8 

Word On The Sheets   

Credits     

Host: Naomi Viret  

Guest: Jennifer Power 

Producers: Winnie Adamson & Maddy Stratten 

Editing: Winnie Adamson  

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript)   

NSW Health social media community guidelines

Join Maddy as she sits down with Kath Albury to explore the digital cultures and sexual health of young people in Australia. 

Kath, an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow and Associate Investigator in the Swinburne Node for ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADMS), shares her Fellowship research which explores the impacts of digital transformation, ranging from enterprise technologies to everyday digital practices, on the sexual and reproductive health workforce.  

This episode was recorded in February 2025 

Read transcript here      

Recommendations  

Podcast: 404 Media  

Garbage Day the email newsletter 

WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Business 

Twin Peaks 

Charlie Jane Anders  

Doomscrolling antidote: Charlie Jane Anders' Happy Dancing Buttondown  

Never Say You Can’t Survive 

Heather Corrina – What Fresh Hell is this?   

Zahra Stardust's Indie Porn 

Olivia Laing 'Everybody: a book about freedom' 

References 

Family Planning NSW 

Andrea Dworkin and Andrea Dworkin on Goodreads 

Playboy  

Catharine A MacKinnon and Catharine A MacKinnon on Goodreads  

Catherine Lumby 

Tobin Saunders 

Vanessa Wagner 

Big Brother 

Chinwag Chat 

International AIDS Conference 

Our Bodies Ourselves 

Picture and People magazine  

Zines  

Digital capability vs Digital literacy  

Hot Docs 

Discord 

PrEP 

Medicare 

Digital Culture 

Meta 

Digital Footprint 

Tumblr 

Community of Practice 

Lave and Wagner 

Twitch 

Manosphere 

Learning Consent 

Alannah & Madeline Foundation 

Crushed But OK 

Process evaluation of Crushed But Okay campaign 

Swinburn University of Technology 

DeepSeek 

NAPWA 

ARC Centre of Excellence 

Building digital and data capabilities for sexual policy and practice stage two report 

Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health - Kath Albury, Natalie Hendry, 2023 

Safety, risk and wellbeing on dating apps: final report 

Young people and sexting in Australia: ethics, representation and the law 

What We’re Reading 

Caddyshack Project on Goodreads 

Play Safe 

Play Safe Pro 

Sexual Health InfoLink 

Credits    

Host: Maddy Stratten 

Guest: Kath Albury  

Producers: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson 

Editing: Winnie Adamson 

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript)  

NSW Health social media community guidelines 

“Awareness doesn't come about by silence”. Naomi is joined by Naomi Hoffman, a clinical sexual health nurse and HIV positive speakers Tasha and Mel. Listen as they discuss testing and treatment options available in Australia and the importance of raising awareness of women and HIV. 

Naomi shares her clinical experience working with and supporting women living with HIV in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Sexual Health Clinic. As a proud Kamilaroi women, Naomi works to educate the wider community to remove stigma associated with HIV. 

Tasha and Mel, from the Positive Speakers Bureau, share their lived experience with HIV, their advocacy for marginalised communities and their impact in education and prevention.  

Take some time and experience the real and honest stories from Tasha and Mel and expand your knowledge of HIV through a new lens. 

This episode was recorded in November 2024  

CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode references physical and emotional trauma

Read transcript here    

Check out our webpage for more information  

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook  

Recommendations 

Positive Speakers Bureau 

World AIDS Day 

National HIV Testing Policy 

NSW Health DBS (dried blood spot) Testing 

My Test 

Positive Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Network (PATSIN) 

References    

Positive Speakers Bureau 

Positive Life NSW 

Shingles 

AZT 

Red Cross 

Albion Centre 

Disability Support Pension (DSP) 

T150 

ACON 

You Can't Ask That 

CALD 

IBAC Unit, St. Vincent's Hospital 

National Association of People With HIV Australia (NAPWHA) 

ASHM 

Pregnancy and HIV 

Ending HIV - Injectable HIV Treatment 

PrEP 

PrEP Access Now (PAN) 

U=U (ASHM) 

Word On The Sheets 

Gilead 

Credits   

Host: Naomi Viret  

Guest: Naomi Hoffman, Tasha and Mel 

Producers: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson  

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript) 

NSW Health social media community guidelines

Join Naomi as she chats with Rachel Wotton and Mohammed Samrah about the importance of people with disability’s access to sexual and reproductive health services. Rachel, a sex worker and academic in the field and Mohammed, a man of lived experience have a dynamic and eye-opening conversation about sex as a human right. 

Rachel shares parts of her PhD research and elaborates on the role the NDIS plays in the disability communities' access to sex worker services. Mohammed eloquently shares his own lived experience and how sex worker services have transformed his life. 

This episode was recorded in September 2024 

Read transcript here  

Check out our webpage for more information 

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook 

References   

Charles Sturt University 

Co Culture Communication 

Petbarn 

NDIS 

Administrative Review Tribunal 

Changes to NDIS Legislation 

Bill Shorten 

Rachel Wotton PASA - Research 

PTSD 

Rachel Wotton TED Talk - Open Your Mind to What Goes on Behind Closed Doors 

Rachelwotton.com 

PLISSIT Model 

Bumble 

Tinder 

Hinge 

Scarlet Road Website 

Caddyshack Instagram 

Caddyshack Facebook 

Credits  

Host: Naomi Viret 

Guest: Rachel Wotton & Mohammed Samrah 

Producers: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson 

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript) 

NSW Health social media community guidelines

In this special edition mini-episode, Maddy and Winnie sit down with Public Health Placement Student Jade Scott at the University of Wollongong recording studio. Listen as they reflect on Jade’s project that explored podcast production and how it can be better used as an innovative tool for sexual health education and promotion.  

This episode was recorded in October 2024 

Read transcript here 

Check out our webpage for more information

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

References  

Caddyshack Project On The Couch 

The Infinite Dial 2023 Australia from Edison Research 

Keegan Julia, Cooper Spring Chenoa, Porter Andrew, Ciervo Courtney, Khalid Rafia (2023) Unlearning and relearning sexuality: a qualitative exploration of The Sex Wrap, a sex education podcast. Sexual Health 20, 531-537. 

Talking Frank  

Love Clews  

Sticky Q’s  

Sydney Sexual Health Centre  

Sexual Health Matters  

Doing ‘IT” 

University of Wollongong 

Sexual Health Victoria 

Sexual Assault Support Service 

Sydney Sexual Health Centre 

University of Technology Sydney 

Caddyshack Instagram 

Caddyshack Facebook 

Credits 

Host: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson 

Guest: Jade Scott

Producers: Maddy Stratten, Winnie Adamson & Jade Scott

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript) 

NSW Health social media community guidelines

Join Winnie as she sits down with Tessa Opie and Kerrin Bradfield in a nuanced discussion on consent, sex education and porn literacy education for young people. Tessa and Kerrin are dedicated and passionate in empowering others to develop healthy attitudes toward relationships, consent and sex. Listen as they share their dynamic collaboration in creating the Respect Collective: Relationships and Sex Education for the Real World. Respect Collective is an online hub for High School educators to create safe and engaging spaces where students can explore and develop health attitudes toward relationships and sexuality.

This episode was recorded in September 2024   

CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode references sexual, physical and emotional trauma

Read transcript here 

Check out our webpage for more information

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

Recommendations  

Respect Collective 

References 

Co-Culture Communications 

In your Skin  

Adrienne Maree Brown 

Respect Collective 

Society of Australian Sexologists  

Caddyshack Project On The Couch  

The Commonwealth Consent Policy Framework 

Triple J Hack Misogyny Forces Teachers to Quit   

Fiona Vera Gray 

Giselle Woodley 

Kris Taylor 

Who is Andrew Tate - BBC News 

Credits 

Host: Winnie Adamson 

Guest: Tessa Opie & Kerrin Bradfield 

Producers: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson  

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript) 

NSW Health social media community guidelines

"Young people are experts in their own experiences." Maddy chats with Laura Crozier a victim survivor, passionate youth advocate, Affirmative Consent Project Officer, a podcast co-host and ice hockey enthusiast. Laura shares how our life experiences shape not only who we are, but how we can help others. In this episode we are reminded the importance of centering young people in our work and ensuring their voices are heard and respected.

This episode was recorded in August 2024  

CONTENT WARNINGS: This episode references sexual, physical and emotional trauma

Read transcript here

Check out our webpage for more information

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

Recommendations 

Growing Up Clueless & This is ADHD 

References 

Youth Affairs Council of Victoria 

Australian Youth Affairs Coalition 

Growing Up Clueless 

Co Culture 

Time to Talk 

Respectful Relationships Program 

Kyneton Community House 

Zonta club of Kyneton 

Queefing 

Affirmative Consent legislation for Victoria 

Stealthing video 

Yeah Nah campaign 

The Hum Academy 

National secondary students' sexual health survey 

Play Safe Pro – condom ordering 

Caddyshack Project Condom Dispenser Project 

Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District 

Chantelle Otten 

Chanelle Moriah author of I Am Autistic and This Is ADHD  

Caddyshack Project What We're Reading  

Caddyshack Project Goodreads profile  

Credits

Host: Maddy Stratten

Guest: Laura Crozier

Producers: Maddy Stratten & Winnie Adamson 

Music: Little Pastries Instrumental (descript) 

NSW Health social media community guidelines