TW (discussion of eating disorders, fatphobia, diet culture) begins 15:30, but we’d like to say here, as Sam said in the recording, that if you do have a history of eating disorders we encourage you to listen, there is no explicitly triggering content in the podcast (e.g. we do not describe behaviour explicitly and there is no discussion of numbers [i.e. weight or calories]). 20:00 Sam knows that it's 500 pounds a year but Sam at this moment decided to try adjusting for inflation on the fly...

We don't talk about that movie but this is our grand podcast return where we discuss so many things. Sam thinks the episode is funny. We hope you agree. We did zero editing. You're getting raw, uncut content.

This week Danushi has done some intense reading on Spivak's subaltern in preparation for our discussion about whether Bridgerton gets the bestie tick of approval!Spivak readings xx:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q5dTNZOlO7MGRVywxTMj7hcPLZzD54ML/view?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1gG7KLFpbE1-dOL5lJNVYq6Z8AyXKoJPu/view?usp=sharingFollow us!!!instagram: @bell_hooks_and_jarstwitter: @bellhooksnjarsemail us: [email protected] Sam on twitter @budithbutler and on...

This week we're talking about But I'm A Cheerleader and Sam and Danushi's lesbianisms.

This week Sam and Danushi talk about cinema, if the female gaze exists, and why the male gaze is not just 'men looking at things'. We then go what we've been waiting for our whole life. Its Gilmore Girls deep dive time.Notes:9:21 Sam would like to acknowledge that unfortunately “seminal” comes from the same root as “semen” and the use of this word may perhaps be in itself contributing to the phallocentric order; perhaps “germinal” would’ve been a better word to use here.9:41 Laura Mulvey...

A lot has been happening in the endo community in Australia. We discuss it all. Please send help.Show notes:The since retracted but very real study rating how hot men think women with endo are!!!! (This was peer reviewed and published in a real journal in 2013!!! and not retracted until 2020!!!!!)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22985951/guardian article about said article:...

This week, Danushi tells Sam about the history of hysteria, and what it's become in modern medicine.Correction: we refer to "CPTSD" as childhood post-traumatic stress disorder, when in fact it is more accurately known as complex post-traumatic stress disorder.

In this episode Sam tells Danushi about Linguistic Misogyny and Linguistic prejudice, and then we have a chat about what this all means in relation to Julia Fox and her now infamous appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast.Show Notes:Loose canons : papers from the National Festival of Women's Music, Canberra, 2001 / edited by Linda Kouvaras, Ruth Lee Martin and Graham Hair. (The paper Sam read in Sex, Death and The Ecstatic in Music is in this...