First up, hear Cat Bradfield deliver the greeting highlighting WLRN's ten-year anniversary top one hundred women's songs as voted by WLRN listeners. Learn more and cast your votes here: https://wlrnmedia.com/2026/03/08/cast-your-vote-for-wlrns-top-100-songs/ Please participate by the end of May, 2026! Next, hear the world news featuring stories from Iraq, Nigeria, Zambia and the USA. Then, enjoy an original song by Cat Bradfield that she played live at the International Women's Day Conference 2026 in Australia last month. Thank you, Cat! Cease and Desist They deny that we're oppressed on the basis of our sex. We matter less than some fetishist who puts on a dress We get arrested, just because we dare to tell it how it is. I need to talk this through but now I'm scared to get a therapist. If the mainstream left are right and no one gives a damn about this, Then why the hell do they keep telling us to cease and desist? You say that you don't vibe with gender roles, And you don't have a gendered soul, Well, you and me have common goals cause that's the point of gender abolition. And I ain't going back into the kitchen Til I'm serving up the patriarchy's head upon a plate. They say the sexes aren't so different, but when arguing on twitter It sure seems to me that they can see which side needs threats of rape. They've got deep fakes of JK Rowling, and deep fakes of Moira Deeming If it's trolling why's it only women's faces that I'm seeing? where's the bound and gagged Matt Walsh? Where's the naked Elon Musk? where's the artificial sex tape of that fascist Donald Trump? Yeah they cancelled Graham Linehan, we won't be seeing him again, but he's not getting threatened with a sexual assault. Every time I go outside wearing shirts purchased from the men's Get asked my pronouns like somehow my clothes can alternate my sex. Come buy your innate sense of gender from your local shopping centre and they'll throw in free mastectomy, but what do you expect? The human body can be modified, and therefore be commodified. And the same people who say this think that you can buy consent. When women protest with our signs that spell out men cannot be lesbians, The other side are shouting things like death to evil feminists. And I can't go to any march for any left wing cause Cause every single grassroots movement has been captured in their paws Rallies for Gaza, for the climate, for dismantling of ICE, Have always gotta have some f****r waving blue and pink and white. Everyone but Pauline Hanson's always dancin' round the signs That putting men in women's prisons should have always been a crime And all the mainstream right's got left is that they give a damn about this, They'll get the vote, we'll get the boot, and they'll make us cease and desist. We may be allies of a sort in terms of saving women's sport But if we use our voice to be pro choice it's cease and desist. they deny that we're oppressed on the basis of sex We matter less than some fetishist who puts on a dress We get arrested just because we dare to tell it how it is Need to talk this through but now I'm scared to get a therapist Men do all this shit and get a slap upon the wrist But when women do speak up, we've gotta cease and desist. So f**k them all, we will speak up, we will not cease and desist. After the song, listen to commentary about social media from from feminist and poet Ann de Hugard before hearing commentary about AI from Spinifex Press founder Susan Hawthorne. Finally, WLRN's Lola Bessis offers up her commentary and thoughts about social media and AI in an intriguing and compelling piece. Thanks for staying turned to feminist-powered community radio, WLRN!
