The Feminist Bar Podcast

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Making everything about feminism with author & feminist activist Tinatswe Mhaka.

  1. 33m ago

    A Boomer, Millennial, and Gen Z Feminist on Intergenerational Tensions and Movement Building

    Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with Rumbidzai Musonza and Sarudzayi Njerere to talk about the tension running through African feminist movements between generations. They get into who holds institutional memory, who controls funding and resources, and how that shapes the relationship between older and younger organisers. The conversation covers the line between mentorship and gatekeeping, what digital organising has changed and what it hasn't, and what succession actually looks like when one generation hands the work to the next. They also make space for what intergenerational love actually offers the movement, real mentorship, and the co-creation possible when generations choose to build alongside each other instead of around each other. Find a platform to listen here : linktr.ee/thefeministbarpodcast x.com/thefeministbar instagram.com/thefeministbarpodcast

  2. Aug 20

    Dating for Love, Dating for Money: The Assimilation of Transactional Logic

    Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with an anonymous guest to talk about the blurred line between romantic relationships and transactional arrangements. They ask what conditions push access to resources to the centre of intimacy, and what it means that the logic of sex work has moved into mainstream dating without any of the rights, clarity, or protection that would come with actually naming it that. The conversation holds that many women have no real economic alternative, and that the arrangement itself still deserves structural critique. It also asks what people say they want from relationships versus what they actually chase, and where that gap comes from. Find a platform to listen here: linktr.ee/thefeministbarpodcast Follow the podcast on social media:  x.com/thefeministbar instagram.com/thefeministbarpodcast

  3. Aug 10

    a healer and a feminist on the role of spirituality in liberation movements

    Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with healer, medium, and artist Thandiwe Gula Ndebele to talk about African spiritual traditions and their contested, generative place inside feminist movement building today. They start with the historical record, the mediums and spiritual leaders who held explicit roles in anti-colonial resistance and the gendered way colonialism went after those traditions specifically. From there they get into the tension inside African feminist spaces now, where feminists across faiths and practices all organise together, and who gets to lead reclamation when it happens and who gets left out of it. Find a platform to listen here: linktr.ee/thefeministbarpodcast Socials:  x.com/thefeministbar instagram.com/thefeministbarpodcast

  4. Jul 31

    An Evening With a Queer Couple: Marriage , Love, and Getting On With It

    Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with a queer couple to talk about building a marriage in a criminalised context. They get into coming into their own identities, transitioning within the relationship, and what it takes to hold each other through that kind of change. The highs, the lows, the fights, the lessons. This is what a real queer life together looks like, told by two people living it. Find a platform to listen here: linktr.ee/thefeministbarpodcast x.com/thefeministbar instagram.com/thefeministbarpodcast

  5. Jul 20

    what about the boys? an educator & a feminist on schools, sons & girls education

    Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with Tapiwa Chikungwa, an educator with experience navigating schooling systems across several continents, to talk about what African formal education was built to produce and who it was never built for. They trace the gap between getting girls into classrooms and actually educating them once inside, what happens to girls who clear the access barrier and walk into schools that remain hostile to them, and who benefits from keeping girls undereducated without ever saying so directly. That same system is failing boys differently, leaving many of them pulled toward red pill content and increasingly resistant to female authority, while parents remain largely absent from the fight and teachers burn out inside a structure that was never built to sustain them either. Listen here: linktr.ee/thefeministbarpodcast Follow the podcast on social media:  x.com/thefeministbar instagram.com/thefeministbarpodcast

  6. Jul 10

    sex under patriarchy: obligations, norms & intimacy starvation

    Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with two guests speaking anonymously to talk about sex as duty. Marriage teaches women that their bodies are owed to someone else on schedule, and this episode goes after what that actually does to a person over years. The guests name intimacy starvation directly: the exhaustion of being sexually active and still hungry for something real, because what’s on offer is obligation dressed up as intimacy. They pull apart the religious scripts, the legal architecture of marriage, and the tired myth that women simply want less sex, all of which work together to keep women performing desire they don’t feel and calling it normal.  Find a platform to listen here: linktr.ee/thefeministbarpodcast   Follow the podcast on social media: instagram.com/thefeministbarpodcast

  7. Jul 1

    The Polygamist: Sue Nyathi on Polygamy, Power and Patriarchy

    Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with Zimbabwean author Sue Nyathi, born and raised in Bulawayo and now based in Johannesburg. Sue is the author of The Polygamist, The Gold Diggers, A Family Affair, and An Angel's Demise. Her debut novel The Polygamist is currently one of the most watched shows on Netflix globally, reaching the top of the non-English chart across South Africa, Nigeria, France, Belgium and Jamaica within its first week of release. This conversation unpacks polygamy, power and patriarchy through a feminist lens. They get into what modern polygamy actually is and who it serves, educated women and the arrangements they accept, transactional relationships, the good father/bad husband split, and what women are left holding when patriarchal structures collapse. Find The Feminist Bar everywhere: Podbean: thefeministbar.podbean.com Patreon: patreon.com/thefeministbarpodcast Linktree: linktr.ee/thefeministbarpodcast X: x.com/thefeministbar Instagram: instagram.com/thefeministbarpodcas

  8. Apr 10

    money, men & the price of overcompensating: a girls night in chat

    Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down to talk about money, women, and the cost of proving yourself in a world built to make you feel like you have something to prove. They get into the ways women overcompensate financially inside relationships, what it looks like to be extorted or swindled by someone who clocked your need to be seen as enough, and why patriarchy is the thing underneath all of it. Listen: thefeministbar.podbean.com  Support: patreon.com/thefeministbarpodcast  Everything else: linktr.ee/thefeministbarpodcast​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Making everything about feminism with author & feminist activist Tinatswe Mhaka.

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  • Creator
    tinatswemhaka
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    The Feminist Bar Podcast

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