If you are a survivor of sexual assault and you are experiencing re-trauma because of the (still partial) release of the Epstein Files this episode is for you (big warning though ~ only if you feel safe & well. Please get the help you need) 

Just to be clear, I stand with all victims of sexual assault, including the victims of Epstein and his cronies. 

Our world has changed, but it changed for the Epstein & Co. victims a long time ago & still there is no justice. None. 

🎙️👀 What worked? What dragged? What made you mutter “Jesus Christ, Catharine”? Tell me.

Content Note ~
This podcast gets into bodies, panic attacks, trauma, sexism, mental health, and the occasional emotional sinkhole. Please look after yourself only listen when you feel safe to engage with potentially triggering material. 
Also, I swear.

Support ~ 
These aren’t here as a formality. I’ve used some of these myself.

Lifeline 13 11 14 (24/7)
Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 (ages 5–25)
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732
Emergency 000

Outside Australia, local crisis services are available. ~

The Socials (I'd love a follow) 
Instagram
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LinkedIn
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Credits
Recorded on the lands of the Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri peoples.
Sovereignty never ceded.

Recorded & edited at Ridley Farm Studio by Luke Ridley
https://ridleyfarmstudio.com...

This episode is dedicated to Irene. The strength you showed as a little girl foretold the remarkable human you would become. Thank you for trusting me, and my listeners, with your story.

Episode 2: Bloody Horrendous ~ First Periods, Shame, and Sisterhood

Fun fact: over a lifetime, the average woman will menstruate for about seven years ~ end on end.
And yet we still whisper about it.

In this episode of The C-Word with Catharine Redden, Catharine talks about first periods. The confusing ones. The painful ones. The ones that arrived with a pad but no instructions. It’s about euphemisms like “the curse,” blue liquid in tampon ads, and the quiet expectation that girls should endure discomfort without complaint.

Alongside Catharine’s own story, women from across generations share what their first periods were really like. Awkward, frightening, funny, and often bloody horrendous. It’s also about the small, practical ways women have always looked after each other, even when no one else did.

Periods are not a failure of the body.
They’re evidence of endurance.

🎙️👀 What worked? What dragged? What made you mutter “Jesus Christ, Catharine”? Tell me.

Content Note ~
This podcast gets into bodies, panic attacks, trauma, sexism, mental health, and the occasional emotional sinkhole. Please look after yourself only listen when you feel safe to engage with potentially triggering material. 
Also, I swear.

Support ~ 
These aren’t here as a formality. I’ve used some of these myself.

Lifeline 13 11 14 (24/7)
Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 (ages 5–25)
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732
Emergency 000

Outside Australia, local crisis services are available. ~

The Socials (I'd love a follow) 
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/catharine.redden/

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/catharine-redden/

Support The Pod
Substack (where I write stuff)
https://catharineredden.substack.com

Buy Me a Coffee (where you can financially support the pod, and me!)
https://buymeacoffee.com/CatharineRedden

Credits
Recorded on the lands of the Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri peoples.
Sovereignty never ceded.

Recorded & edited at Ridley Farm Studio by Luke Ridley
https://ridleyfarmstudio.com...

This episode is dedicated to ABF, the first man who said the C-word about my body in a way that was tender, affirming, and entirely without contempt.

Episode 1: Oh, Cunt Where Art Thou?

In the first episode of ‘The C-Word with Catharine Redden’, Catharine starts where few podcasts dare: with the word cunt. Loved, loathed, weaponised, reclaimed, how did one word that names a life-giving part of women’s bodies become one of the most explosive insults in the English language?

With humour, storytelling, and a proudly non-academic feminist lens, Catharine traces the word’s journey from medieval England (yes, Grope Cunt Lane was a real street) through class politics, religion, Victorian moral panic, and into its strange modern life as both taboo slur and affectionate Aussie greeting. Along the way, she asks bigger questions about language, power, women’s bodies, and why some words are policed harder than others.

This is not a rage-bait podcast. It’s a curious, funny, thoughtful exploration of what it’s like to be a woman in a world largely designed by and for men, making space for complexity, contradiction, and conversation. If you love words, feminism, cultural history, and smart swearing, you’re in the right place.

🎙️👀 What worked? What dragged? What made you mutter “Jesus Christ, Catharine”? Tell me.

Content Note ~
This podcast gets into bodies, panic attacks, trauma, sexism, mental health, and the occasional emotional sinkhole. Please look after yourself only listen when you feel safe to engage with potentially triggering material. 
Also, I swear.

Support ~ 
These aren’t here as a formality. I’ve used some of these myself.

Lifeline 13 11 14 (24/7)
Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 (ages 5–25)
1800RESPECT 1800 737 732
Emergency 000

Outside Australia, local crisis services are available. ~

The Socials (I'd love a follow) 
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/catharine.redden/

LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/catharine-redden/

Support The Pod
Substack (where I write stuff)
https://catharineredden.substack.com

Buy Me a Coffee (where you can financially support the pod, and me!)
https://buymeacoffee.com/CatharineRedden

Credits
Recorded on the lands of the Ramindjeri and Ngarrindjeri peoples.
Sovereignty never ceded.

Recorded & edited at Ridley Farm Studio by Luke Ridley
https://ridleyfarmstudio.com...