005 - The Porn Industry

"My friendship is not a crappy consolation prize that you’re left with if I deny you a relationship – and my body is not your reward for good behavior.”
- Taylor Callobre, The 'Good Guy' Myth (2012), Duke University Press

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This week Anastasia joins us for the final of her vital trilogy about sexual assault, following previous episodes on her own story, and the way in which society has defined the journey through language and the #metoo movement reaction. Among the side effects and respective healing strategies we cover:

• disordered eating
• PTSD and flashbacks
• journalling
• therapy
• family support

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TW: sexual assault (s/a)

Following up from our last episode with Anastasia, we expand our discussion of sexual assault from her personal experience to global representation. We do this by talking about:

• #MeToo and its reception
• how sensationalism warps movements
• sexual abuse in the LGBTQ+ community
• post-assault sexuality (libido and orientation)
• self-erasure of survivors and invalidation of labels
• naming sex crimes as precisely as we do others
• insensitive jokes about s/a

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TW: sexual assault (s/a)

This first episode of 2024 begins the year on a sombre note, as Anastasia Serrell-Watts bravely steps into the spotlight of describing her sexual assault story to help other people find their own voice and recognise that they are not alone in their struggle. We want to thank Anastasia deeply for allowing us to seek company in her vulnerability in what is truly a selfless and inspiration episode that will hopefully help many women listening.

This episode includes:

• Anastasia's experience
• police reactions to s/a
• public, family and school reactions to s/a
• the mental health repercussions such as eating disorders and PTSD
• words of wisdom and support for survivors

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Our 2 cents (or 1.6p if you will) on the beauty of the Barbie movie. With apologies for Camille's poor sound quality and cold, in this casual episode, Harini and Camille cover:

• America Ferrera's speech
• "I'm not pretty enough to be pretty and not smart enough to be smart"
• the kitchen scene
• Ken
• the de-programming of the Barbies
• mothers and daughters

and much else besides!

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With so much anguish in the feminist community about the role of trans people, we are so pleased to be able to talk to Charlie Summers about his perspective as a trans man on the following topics, among many others:

• being socialised as a girl
• the mental health impacts of being trans pre-transition
• coming out to his family
• commenting on feminism as a man who has experienced the other side first-hand
• waiting times for reassignment
• gendered bathrooms

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This week we are so pleased to interview Layo Akinola about a range of issues related to racism and feminism, including:

• Michelle Obama
• dealing with microaggressions
• intersectional feminism
• gaslighting yourself
• how to elicit change

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We are so lucky to talk to Colette Zacca, the actress and dancer most recently seen in the TV series Doctors, the film Things I Do For Money, and the short Teach Me How To Fly, about Black history in the UK. It was such an honour to record this episode and we learnt so much. We hope you do too, or that you feel your own experiences are reflected in Colette's and that it makes you feel seen.

• Maya Angelou
• Stephen Lawrence
• The Deptford (New Cross) House Fire
• Child Q
• being Black and British, and the Windrush generation
• expectations on Black women
• staying true to yourself and standing up for what is right

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It's Black History Month in the UK and we want to make sure that Black women are heard this month above all! As such you won't be hearing any white voices until November. We're focussing on role models, the advice to the new generation and advice to current white adults but this naturally comes with explanations (and vents) about the responsibilities placed on Black women. We hope you feel seen, or that you hear something that makes you reflect on your own behaviour, and that we can lay our grain of sand to bridging the racial gap.

In this episode Hawa Eyimah tells us about:

• the trailblazer Ismatu https://www.ismatu.com/ 
• radical love and unconditional kindness
• advice for young Black girls
• social burn out from chronic care
• apologising vs guilt-tripping

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The self-care industry has been the root of plenty of myths, but luckily Colette Grice, founder of the Galene Company (https://www.galenecompany.com/) is here to debunk them! In this episode we talk about:

• skin care products
• chemicals vs clean products
• sexual health and vaginal health
• periods, hormones and PMDD
• taking the time to look after yourself
• the gender divide in self-care

If your child is listening to this podcast, the only explicit words used in this episode are: b0ll0cks and cr@p

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