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Sam Cook & Danushi Rajapakse
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Danushi and Sam use their giant brains and pop-culture knowledge to connect our passions for women’s (and nbs) rights and women’s wrongs. It’s gender studies, philosophy and academia, but also not gender studies, philosophy and academia at all. Each episode we share some bite sized introductory feminist theory and also deliver a huge serving of some sweet sweet pop culture knowledge. Who says that being smart is mutually exclusive with being a Gemma Collins stan? Not us!

Episodes

  1. 11/20/2022

    You’ll Have to Kill Us Before Heroin Chic Comes Back

    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 and apparently this was close ish to the 2014 figure of what 500 pounds in 1929 would be, according to this. 26:10 The Maintenance Phase (Sam’s favourite podcast that has been very important to their recovery) 28:00 - The Obesity Epidemic episode of TMP - BMI episode of TMP 29:40 - Our Met Gala Video episode xoxooxo 51:54 - 52:30 EXTRA TW: Sam mentions something they did when they were in their ED, not numbers but a sad and real thing 55:30 - Sam is continuing to own the statement that they have pretty privilege. They know this might come across weirdly, but like no it’s true, don’t @ me. Find Us: On Instagram, Sam, Danushi On Twitter, Sam, Danushi

    1h 28m

  2. 11/01/2022

    Everything! Everywhere! All at Once!

    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.

    1h 12m
  3. Spivak's Subaltern and Bridgerton!!

    05/04/2022

    Spivak's Subaltern and Bridgerton!!

    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=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gG7KLFpbE1-dOL5lJNVYq6Z8AyXKoJPu/view?usp=sharing Follow us!!! instagram: @bell_hooks_and_jars twitter: @bellhooksnjars email us: bellhooksandjars@gmail.com Find Sam on twitter @budithbutler and on Instagram @budith_butler Find Danushi on twitter @dansush1 and on Instagram @dan.sushi

    1h 19m
  4. But I'm A Cheerleader! : Compulsory Heterosexuality and other musings from our adolescence

    04/28/2022

    But I'm A Cheerleader! : Compulsory Heterosexuality and other musings from our adolescence

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

    55 min
  5. THE Gilmore Girls Episode: Femme Gays vs. The (Fe)Male Gaze

    04/06/2022

    THE Gilmore Girls Episode: Femme Gays vs. The (Fe)Male Gaze

    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 retrospective interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw-ps5mFQzA&ab_channel=AnotherGazeJournal https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPHT8ZubN86ml2Vv2QXXp2DNqevqbseL/view?usp=sharing Sam’s gift to the people xx dont tell JSTOR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnBvppooD9I&ab_channel=TIFFTalks Joey Soloway keynote address 47:45 Gilmore Girls section begins

    1h 19m
  6. The "The Endo Community Is F****d!!!" Extravaganza

    03/30/2022

    The "The Endo Community Is F****d!!!" Extravaganza

    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: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/aug/05/disgusting-study-rating-attractiveness-of-women-with-endometriosis-retracted-by-medical-journal#:~:text=The study's conclusion was%3A “Women,age at first sexual intercourse. @endogram’s post on Lupron/Zoladex https://www.instagram.com/p/CbWdz4sP7ay/ @endoarticle’s post “What’s Going on With Endometriosis in Australia?” https://www.instagram.com/p/CbW4_07PTy6/ @endoarticles’s post “What’s Wrong With The Clinical Guidelines For Endometriosis?” https://www.instagram.com/p/CbbJkY6v2FW Endometriosis Australia’s “We’re Listening” post (are they tho????) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbbPHNgvg1X/ EndoActive’s post about the $58 mill for endo (where they express personal offence that patients are unhappy with the outdated and incorrect guidelines that they approved) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbgIuzLBMCu/ The ACE guidelines https://ranzcog.edu.au/RANZCOG_SITE/media/RANZCOG-MEDIA/Women's Health/Statement and guidelines/Clinical - Gynaecology/Endometriosis-clinical-practice-guideline.pdf?ext=.pdf National Action Plan for Endometriosis https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/national-action-plan-for-endometriosis.pdf

    1h 19m
  7. Danushi's Feeling a Bit Hysterical: Freud, Foucault and Hysteria

    03/16/2022

    Danushi's Feeling a Bit Hysterical: Freud, Foucault and Hysteria

    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.

    1h 6m
  8. Uncuhhhh Gahms: Valley Girls and Linguistic Sexism

    03/09/2022

    Uncuhhhh Gahms: Valley Girls and Linguistic Sexism

    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 collection) https://www.elle.com/culture/a28715/vocal-fry-sexist-uptalk-women/ https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28708526 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0097506 https://www.npr.org/2015/07/23/425608745/from-upspeak-to-vocal-fry-are-we-policing-young-womens-voices https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opli-2020-0022/html?lang=en https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/2352?lang=en https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/september/lisa-davidson-on-vocal-fry.html https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/3352

    38 min
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Danushi and Sam use their giant brains and pop-culture knowledge to connect our passions for women’s (and nbs) rights and women’s wrongs. It’s gender studies, philosophy and academia, but also not gender studies, philosophy and academia at all. Each episode we share some bite sized introductory feminist theory and also deliver a huge serving of some sweet sweet pop culture knowledge. Who says that being smart is mutually exclusive with being a Gemma Collins stan? Not us!

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    Sam Cook & Danushi Rajapakse
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