Lizz is out for the best reason: celebrating the day Minnesota was first blessed with her radiance and joy. Moji and Marie meanwhile have assembled a critical docket of abortion news, starting with a SCOTUS update. In our now-weekly segment addressing “sanctuary cities for the unborn” we are soliciting jingle entries from our listeners. And we have gotta say, the state that had to run a “don’t rape your daughter” billboard campaign doesn’t scream ABORTION HAVEN, but compared to it’s nearest...

Your Sleeper Cellmates Lizz, Marie and Moji, have assembled the weeks HOTTEST OF TAKES!!  It took a damned documentary to shine the light on eugenics survivors from the California carceral system, Texas abortion patriots in the Rio Grande Valley stood up and shut down shut-down some ‘sanctuary city’ of Edinburg. And a federal judge JUST OWNED the misogynist and transphobic ARKANSAS lawmakers by rulling GTFOH on laws banning abortion and gender-affirming care.  WE ARE HERE TO DUNK TO AK...

As we sweat our way through July, Sleeper cellmates Moji and Marie are calling out some despicable trends. Attorneys General are circle-jerking anything-that-sticks-to-the-abortion-ban as they try to litigate around Roe; clinic attacks are accelerating in violence and frequency and OSA got called out publically for their hatred. But the real (soy) meat and potatoes of this episode is to let you know about the undying dedication of the feminist underground to abortion care for all!!...

We really need to start waking up to better news this summer. This last week saw a cop go unpunished for protesting at an abortion clinic, while Ohio’s newly signed budget throttles providers and gives a cool six MILLION to fake clinics!!! Wake us from this nightmare.  PLUS we have the amazing Ohio clinic escort Kristin Hady, who joined Lizz and co last week in Phoenix to engage with anti-abortion terrorizors from Operation Save America. She and Lizz give you a play by play of their week...

You get Moji and Marie again this week!!! Lizz&Co are out exposing the toxic Evangelical masculinity of Operation Save America, which has descended on Arizona this week to preach their misogynistic hate. Our bright spots are the incredible Black folks running for office all over the US to try and enact REAL change (such as teaching Critical Race Theory in the classroom). We are on team #FreeBritney and demand that she be allowed the freedom to make her own reproductive choices and remind...

Description: We hope you are ready to enjoy a relaxing Juneteenth weekend while Moji and Marie DROP SOME KNOWLEDGE. North Carolina’s unconstitutional ban was stopped, but we are still nervous (and enraged) about anti abortion measures in Arkansas and Louisiana. We also watched On The Divide, a documentary that captures a snapshot of the lives of a clinic security guard, a clinic escort, and a fake clinic volunteer around a single clinic in Texas. It touched on a host of intense subjects,...

We were hoping this summer heat would force the misogynists indoors- instead Red Rose attackers have been busy terrorizing Ohio clinics, and there’s a march planned by a bunch of lonely incels in suits TO PROTEST A HOSPITAL. And we return yet again to Texas, with a blatantly unconstitutional “sanctuary city” depriving residents of abortion access!!! How many times can we say this- keep your rosaries/homeschools/gun arsenals/forced-birth fingers away from our uteruses.  Gathered in the...

The Cellmates wanted to rant and rant and rant about Texas’s new b******t law that lets anyone with half a brain and an axe to grind to sue your uterus. But then the Supreme Court decided to take their super-conservative supermajority and weigh in on an unconstitutional 15-week ban, so this hydra had to switch gears. Luckily we have the litigation director for the Center For Reproductive Rights Julie Rikelman to bring her vast Mississippi  lawyer-ly genius and explains why we’re not wrong to...

 We are busy this week and so it’s another “Best of” but we promise next week a piping, hot, fresh pod right out of the oven. Mmmm so delish.  The cellmates decided this episode from March was a good ‘en because we had our fingers on the pulse on some of the most f****d up abortion bans from March of this year. You really can’t be reminded enough that Republicans are PROUD of wasting taxpayer money passing laws directly contrary to the constitution, especially now that we have a SCOTUS...

Your Cellmates are off this week so it’s “Best of” time. We are reposting Our episode from last March to remind folks of the record of violence and harassment clinics have faced this spring on an ongoing basis. While we can thank the reproductive affirming decision in NYC to protect clinic access, North Carolina and Kentucky providers faced violent threats by anti-abortion terrorizers. We are joined by special guest Melissa Grant, CEO of carfem, who’s Nashville clinic Melissa Grant, CEO of...

Even though the Feminist Sleeper Cell is operating at two-thirds strength this week, Moji and Marie deliver 1000 percent fury. Apparently, without the Federal Aviation Administration, stalking an abortion provider with a drone would have continued unchecked (land police, again, f**k you). Waiting periods are still en vogue, because why on earth should you be able to get safe and legal medical care on your timeline? And Oklahoma and Idaho are taking turns at cynical so-called heartbeat bans....

Once again, we are reminded of conservatives myopic fascination with fetuses, as Xavier Becerra’s HHS finally rolls back restrictions on using fetal tissue in research that the Trump administration stopped. Call us when people actually care about the medical experimentation on Black and brown bodies. Then the cellmates lighten the mood as we unpack the total LACK of dignity in Tennessee’s looming law requiring fetal burial or cremation. And to ice this particular s****y pod cake, we close out...

This week has seen some HELPFUL news for increased abortion access, with changes in Haiwaii and movement by the FDA to reduce barriers to medication abortions. But these barriers should not exist TO BEGIN WITH, and are useless in states who go out of their way to criminalize pregnancy...like Texas.  The shit their legislators are coming up with, trying to penalize ‘aiding and abetting’ abortion, while they simultaneously want a SEVEN WEEK abortion pill cutoff! We get it- you’ve got an...

The Arkansas House and Senate hit a new low this week advancing legislation criminalizing EXISTING AND FUTURE gender-affirming healthcare for minors-  making their newest abortion restriction look mild. BUT THE PIECE (OF SHITE) DE RESISTANCE is the deep dive we do into the shallow end of the talent pool and review the latest anti-abortion film, “Roe v. Wade.”  AAF writer and comedian Molly Gaebe joins as we break down this hyperbolic fact-free-for-all, the brainchild of bloviating...

It’s April, Fools, and Lizz and Marie hold it down in the Sleeper Cell while Moji is home sleeping off her vaccine!! This week we have all the axes to grind! The first abortion case SCOTUS has agreed to take will have the 6-3 (and not in a good way) court decide if the Kentucky AG-ro can bring cases to SCOTUS that lower courts have RULED are trash. Oh the floodgates...  PLUS Two southwestern states are in a battle royal for the title  “Most Medically Unnecessary and Cruel Legislatures” And we...

Lizz is off having an organ removed but Marie and Moji hold it down in the Sleeper Cell! This week on the pod: “Having a Bad  Day” My Ass! Atlanta is yet another reminder that our country has sat idly by as racist Asian tropes have been passed off without being checked, and violence continues to escalate because of it. Spoiler Alert: Cops are just as awful to Asian Folks as Black Folks. PLUS  Moji “Get off My Lawn” Alawode-El goes off on states wasting millions on abortion lawsuits...

Check out our Very special edition of this weeks Pod. Instead of doing a proper Feminist Sleeper Cell show this week, Lizz, Moji and Marie, are bringing you the audio version of another show they do for our sibling org, Abortion Access Front.  AA Front are playing around with a video comedy talk show format so we thought we’d pull the audio to give you a taste of what we got cooking so listen and enjoy! This episode features a breakdown of all things Alabama with special guests from The...

Y’all this is a WEEK. We’ve got South Carolina trying to ban abortion before most folks know they are pregnant; HHS prospect Xavier Beccerra facing a barrage of questions about JUST abortion because THAT’S the health crisis we’re facing...SMDH AND if that isn’t bad enough one of Marie’s pet snails ate another one. PLUS- We are so PSYCHED to be joined by Maysoon Zayid, badass comedian, our favorite soap opera star AND and incredible disability rights advocate. She talks with us about the...

We open with the sad news that South Carolina passed a so-called ‘heartbeat’ ban- rest assured though, Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights has already filed suit on this attack on abortion care. We bask in Rush Limbaugh’s passing; when you dedicate a standing segment on your radio show to celebrating the deaths of gay men from AIDs, we will toast your death. Montana has been hit with no less than SIX abortion restrictions in the works, and we are watching a Book of...

 ::TRIGGER WARNING:: on this episode.  Ok, Now that we have said that, it’s not “all” triggering, but a heads up is important.  First off, we forgot to say “HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR,” so Happy year of the Ox!!!  In this ep we talk about some dope folks already bringing  some serious Ox vibes. Powerhouse New York AG Letitia James who is sticking it to some violent clinic harassers, and Virginia is leading the way as the first southern state poised to have insurance coverage...

We are baaaaaaack bitches!!! We’ve been busy y’all! We did a massive counterprotest of the March For Life, the largest anti abortion gathering in the US. And THE VERY NEXT DAY? A bomb threat at a clinic in Charlotte and and a protester in KKK robes harrasses patients in Milwaukee. The violence is escalating so we talk to AAF’s data kween Kat Green who tracks anti abortion violence and breaks down what is happening, who they are targeting and what we all can do to stop it! Plus:...

Instead of taping the pod this week we’re live at the #MarchForActualLives counter-protesting the anti abortion “March for Life” virtual lie-fest. Friday January 29th at 11am follow the #MarchForActualLives hashtag on Twitter to get in on the action, and help us counter their fiction in real time Gathered in the Sleeper Cell Lizz Winstead @lizzwinstead Moji Alawode-El @mojilocks Marie Khan @mkhanj  All the housekeeping * Write a review / give us 5...

We can breathe slightly easier knowing that our nation has a new administration- but we cannot pause in demanding that the racist and classist Hyde Amendment be overturned. And as we shake our heads at the mountains of Trump pardons (so glad that Elliott Broidy can get back to hushing up pregnancies) we are reveling in how ex-legislator Derrick Evans’ clinic harassment is being scrutinized. We are excited for Robin Marty, abobo historian, author, and activist to give us a crash course on Joe...

Week two of 2021 has almost come to a close and my god we have aged. From SCOTUS deciding it’s safer to navigate a pandemic than getting your abortion by mail, to watching the number of antis being exposed for participating in terrorism climb faster than the National Debt clock, we are dizzy y’all. We are excited to be joined by Kellie Copeland, honcho at NARAL Prochoice OH to talk about the latest in Ohion fuckery involving burying your abortion because… wait for it… dignity,   Live....