In this episode Tiffany Kagure Mugo sits down with Ishtar Lakhani and they decide that the pool is a front because sometimes it's OK to not make bad decisions and go to bed early. The episode also tackles how the struggle doesn't have to be serious, the fact that NGOs don't always allow for fun creativity or care. Also running a fake presidential campaign for awareness.

Also in this episode, Tiff is a part of the problem.

Produced by yours truly, Tiff Mugo, and created in collaboration with the Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Mixing and mastering by Rachel Wamoto and Sheldon Mutei.

Follow Tiffany on Instagram: @kagsmugo and HOLAAfrica: @holaafrica_org

All the relevant links from the second episode are available here.

In this Part II of this pair of messy episodes Tiffany Kagure Mugo continues to chat to Lebo Mashile about how feminists can sometimes be horrible, the deep clap back of facism, holding all the little parts of yourself with love as well as breakdown of her latest offering ‘Women’s Labour’. Also a shout out to our Nigeria cousins. If you haven’t listened to part I go back to that first.

Produced by yours truly, Tiff Mugo, and created in collaboration with the Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Mixing and mastering by Rachel Wamoto and Sheldon Mutei.

In Part I of this pair of messy episodes, Tiffany Kagure Mugo sits down with Lebo Mashile, poet extraordinaire, playwright, recording artist, performer, and cultural producer, to have some wild and raw conversations. A conversation about art, being born into politics, how art sucks the life force from female bodies, as well as a therapy moment or two.

Misogynoir and intersectionality also make a cameo in this episode.

An especially fun episode filled with lots of ad-libs, side tracks and laughter.

Produced by yours truly, Tiff Mugo, and created in collaboration with the Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Mixing and mastering by Rachel Wamoto and Sheldon Mutei.

Follow Tiffany on Instagram: @kagsmugo and HOLAAfrica: @holaafrica_org

All the relevant links from the second episode are available here.

In this messy episode Tiffany Kagure Mugo sits down with Jac sm Kee to chat about feminist tech and Silicon Valley Syndrome, the scam that is an 'equal internet' and why conversations about A.I need to be about more than shouting 'my toaster is getting smart with me.' It's all about building the internet that we all want to be on, but its going to take a little while to get there, we just need to give the feminist girlies their coins.

Produced by yours truly, Tiff Mugo, and created in collaboration with the Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Mixing and mastering by Rachel Wamoto and Sheldon Mutei.

Follow Tiffany on Instagram: @kagsmugo and HOLAAfrica: @holaafrica_org

All the relevant links from the second episode are available here.

In this messy episode Tiffany Mugo sits down with Mona Eltahawy to talk about transitioning into menopause, figuring out love and dating and how the medical gender gap is out of control. Having agency and control is something that is hard earned (because sometimes it feels like even your body is fighting you), but the goal is to free yourself. And spend more energy on researching the female body and less on making things hard.

Produced by yours truly, Tiff Mugo, and created in collaboration with the Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Mixing and mastering by Rachel Wamoto and Sheldon Mutei for that apocalyptic post-production.

All the relevant links from the first episode are available here.

Welcome to What Is This Hot Mess? a podcast looking at all the ways the world is hot trash right now and the ways some brilliant feminists are cleaning it up. Sitting with people from all corners of the globe, this podcast hosted by Tiffany Kagure Mugo is an entertaining, insightful and (sometimes) wild ride that tackles a bunch of 'f words': feminists, fascism and a little bit of fun.

Your host, Tiffany Kagure Mugo, is the curator of HOLAAfrica, speaker, author and ex menace -at -large.