Our current "left" is mostly comprised of petite bourgeois young people dealing with the impact of late-stage capitalism on their lives in ways never imagined. This has lead to some strange contradictions. They decry power structures and authority figures, but identify with them.
“Redfem offers smart discussion on feminism (the real kind--not the "men are women if they say so" variety) and Marxism (the real kind--not the "someone was mean to me, so I'm oppressed and exploited" variety)”
~ Lorna Garano, writer
We’re 11 followers away from 4000. Plz
#RT
to help us reach 4k!
We’re a leftist radfem podcast that, crucially, are SANE on the issue of Trans, unlike most on the Left rn. 49% of our listeners are men and lots of folk not on the Left find value in our episodes. Thats the pitch!
They talk of class, but redefine it to mean a collection of individuals with certain obsessions, tastes,& thwarted personal ambitions. Their online, helicopter-parented upbringing has left them uniquely unprepared to face or even correctly identify the powers arrayed against them
First-person account of what happened last weekend when a lesbian and gay man were kicked out of church due to one of them holding an LGB Alliance tote bag.
NEW episode on the Cass Review 🏨 - a report on the treatment of 'trans' children that’s caused huge waves. We discuss its moral inditement of the PMC, their rapidly devalued sunk cost, and the media class’s witch-hunting of women who acted to protect kids
Our episode on the Cass Review last week almost got us into the Top 50 in the UK, peaking (*insert joke here*) at
#51
on the Apple Politics chart. Above, of all people, Owen Jones 😀
Listen to it here:
They demand that authority figures resolve conflicts and retool themselves to mirror the latest language and "theory" fads. They imagine that the Democrats, or the Labour Party, can be radicalised and, banners in hand, they cheer on politicians who waste no time selling out.
NEW POD 🚩exploring key reasons why some on the Left try to brand GC women ‘fascists’. Discussion revolves around few knowing what a fascist is anymore, the attempt to apply No Platform and No Debate, and seeking to legitimise violent tactics against women
Episode
#2
is OUT NOW! On why the Left are often sympathetic to pedophilia.
The discussion uses ideas and concepts from Marx, Dworkin, Freud, Foucault, and Sartre.
We also give our analysis of the SWP split of 2012 and collapse of the ISO years later.
We discuss femininity not only at the symbolic level of beauty practices, but infantilisation of women. How the far-Left has a tradition of working with the right. And that activists are defined by their political work, not self-declared political identity
NEW EPISODE!
A discussion about Balenciaga's child BDSM photoshoot scandal leads to a wider conversation about pedophilia, fashion, art, and the elites.
Ends with a “should communism abolish fashion?” debate. Hannah says yes, Jen argues no.
Tomorrows new episode is about how and why we, as socialists, peaked (hit ‘Peak Trans’, meaning that we realised the liberal media narrative around Transgenderism was false and that it is in reality a men’s rights movement).
NEW EPISODE! After ‘International Non-Binary Peoples Day’ two days ago we discuss what nonsense non-binary is and how it functions as an attempt to retreat from womanhood (female adulthood) for many young women, but risks dismantling womens rights for all.
The conclusive episode of a 3-part series analysing how the Left has been degraded into postmodernism and disorganisation. We discuss how the radlib Left purports to support women workers rights and yet wants a brothel in every union and workplace.
Our usual Spotify / Apple episode will be out tomorrow night. It’s on Eurovisions’s ‘queer’ nonsense politics and political lesbianism as a form of self-ID
NEW episode on puberty blockers 💊
We discuss the picture of cultural sadism, personal misery, and quasi-eugenics taking place through puberty blockers as the first step on the conveyer belt to the destruction of gay people's health and sexual function.
NEW episode!👩🏻🎤🎤
On the queer politics of Eurovision, infantilism as attempt to foreclose political criticism, and how no one (not even Graham Norton) can keep up pronoun pretences for more than 5 mins. Which leads into discussing political lesbianism…
This chart placement is quite funny.
49. MSNBC
50. The Washington Post
51. two dykes recording on an iPhone
52. The New Yorker
53. Owen Jones lol
Between million $ companies is a conversation on a battered sofa with Heathrow planes going off in the background 😂
Next episodes:
1. WTF happened to the Left?
2. Storytime: Lesbophobia in Algeria
3. Political lesbianism is a scam
4. Lesbians dont have to date bisexuals
5. Is socialism possible in the Global North?
6, Why Antifi are moronic
7. How did we peak?
8. Andrew Tate IS the Matrix
Resharing as it’s our second fastest downloaded episode ever, this weeks topics are the queer politics of Eurovision and how political lesbianism was the embryonic form of woke politics decades ago and still shares traits and tactics with Trans today.
Our next episode out tomorrow is ‘WTF Happened to the Left pt. 2’ where we discuss the 2010s onwards and how the organised UK socialist left disinterested and declined into liberalism. Political branding and insularity took over from outward looking organised politics. And… 1/2
There will be NO PODCAST this week because one of us has a terrible cold and sounds like she’s swallowed a cheese grater. BUT we will put 2 episodes out asap (probably next week) to make up for it.
Until then, get well croaky snot-machine Jen.
We just recorded an episode entitled ‘The Great Debate: Sex vs. Class’. Which one, sex or class, is more significant, important, and determining in people’s lives?
Watch out for it soon 🤫👀
NEW episode on the links between autism, adolescence, and Trans🏳️⚧️
We discuss the baptism by fire that is female adolescence, and how if add autism into the mix, Trans starts to look like an available escape hatch for girls who are socially non-conforming.
NEW EPISODE! We tell the stories of how we gradually hit 'peak Trans' (‘peak Trans' refers to realising that the liberal media narrative around Transgenderism is false). Told from a perspective as lesbians and activists on the socialist far-Left.
The next episode will be on Steven Crowder and his attempts to Amber Heard his wife. Spoiler alert🚨this is going to be eviscerating *rubs hands together*
Today we released an episode on Trad simply mentioning
@trad_west_
as a representative example and he blocked us within 6 hours. We weren’t even disparaging! How can you be a snowflake and a crypto-fascist? Should change his Trad shtick to family, Jesus, and hypersensitivity 😂
NEW episode on men in women’s prisons
We use a Marxist framework to consider the contemporary radical Left's turn away from the working class towards the lumpen proletariat - EXCEPT in the case of economically vulnerable and criminalised lumpen women.
NEW ARTICLE UP ON OUR BLOG!
‘Just as Western imperialists colonise the people they seek to dominate by defining who they are, the transgender ideology movement, also born in the West, makes women something conceptual and ideal’
NEW episode on Taylor Swift🎵
We mount a defence of Taylor Swift and the tons of inane criticism she receives online. We discuss 'girl culture', how fandoms are replacing sub-cultures, and how people and things idolised by women are so often denigrated.
Liberal denialism meets upper-crust emotional repression (and marry). The Meghan & Harry docuseries represents a culture clash between British norms and LA culture. Celebrities are boring and validation seeking is unhealthy, including for Meghan Markle.
NEW EPISODE! We discuss the debate around the fall of Roe vs. Wade, contraception, assumed heterosexuality within medicine, dating apps, and Andrea Dworkin's 'Brothel Model'. Hannah also picks her nose a great deal.
Pride Month SPECIAL EPISODE! On the marketing disasters of Bud Light and Target, the concept of 'chosen family', and why companies are invested in increasing the letters in LGBTQ+ because it expands the market of people to sell Pride affiliated products to
Our next episode is on whether feminists should work with right-wingers. Out soon!
The one after that is about whether male dominance is a social relation…
We review
#Barbie
! Includes discussion of “Alan” men who don't do well in patriarchy, Ti-Grace Atkinson's model of lesbians as rebels, Daily Wire commentator Michael Knowles interestingly correct take on the film, and whether Margot Robbie really is mid?
NEW EPISODE 💅🏻 on the return of ‘bimboism’.
The 'bimbo', a feminine archetype that has at times existed as a cultural construct, stereotype, or epithet thrown at women, is making a return in a remade form of self-consciously adopted ‘bimboism'.
From hundreds per month when we launched last November to 14,000+ downloads each month (listenership overall is about double, but they don’t make nice readymade graphics for listener figures).
Listen to RedFem on Apple, Spotify, and BONUS episodes on
and how the smiling homophobia of Left-liberals, who used the tools of power available to them to do violence to gay children is far, far worse than the average street homophobe.
Very sorry to say due to a co-host down after an overwhelming experience in hospital our episode on the GE and the state of the U.K. will be out tomorrow (fingers crossed) 🤒
NEW POD🚨covering the backlash to Millennial ‘sex positivity’. Its reversal, now captivating Gen-Z, where value is gained by sexual discretion, rather than sexual availability, signals a wider contextual shift from leftwing patriarchy to trad patriarchy.
NEW EPISODE! We discuss the last weeks GC events in AUS & NZ from a far-Left, anti-fascist perspective. With quotes from Adorno, Sartre, and Lenin to help us. We also think through the tarring of some women as being 'associated' with the far-right.
This episode includes comment on Novara Media's apology to JK Rowling for falsely accusing her of being a 'holocaust denier', the Left's political vacuum where safeguarding doesn't exist, how ex-Stonewall CEO Ruth Hunt was branded a 'transphobe' back in 2010,
Is
@ThePosieParker
a grifter? We discuss the merits of that claim, Kelly-Jay’s experience of mob violence in New Zealand, how the far-right are radicals who want to totally reorganise society and are therefore not conservative in any sense, plus Trump 2024
NEW episode! Part 2 on whether feminists should work with the Left ☭
We put forward a central problem for the possibility of feminists working with the Left, specifically, that most leftwing men are not at all leftwing regarding women and women's issues.
Due to requests we’ll be doing an episode on Catherine MacKinnon’s new paper. Also upcoming episodes on Phillip Schofield and Kathleen Stock’s appearance at the Oxford Union that required the distribution of welfare granola bars.
Sorry no episode this week as been on holiday🏖️😀
NEW EPISODE! We discuss the disintegration of the Left from the 2010s onwards and how that decline led to a vacuum. The ensuing existential crisis over dwindling numbers led to an unwillingness to challenge postmodern ideas as they gained popularity.
We also think about how we arrived here, covering how women on the liberal-Left are incredibly submissive and male-approval seeking, how lesbians are considered expendable,
Our next episode will be a review of the
#Barbie
movie. INCLUDES SPOILERS! Plus critical discussion of feminist theories of socialisation into femininity, Jen’s crush on Jodie Foster, and women relating to men like they’re opiates.
NEW EPISODE! Special guest
@ShayWoulahan
discusses
#LetWomenSpeak
's recent event in Belfast. Topics include how sectarianism impacts feminist organising in Northern Ireland, the presence of the notorious Jolene Bunting, and the nature of anti-Irish racism.
Our NEW EPISODE is also on Spotify! We talk
#LetWomenSpeak
, Trump 2024, criticise the ‘personal is political’ because it leaves out politics, and discuss how the Left are terrible on pedophilia and that the socialist Left gifted the issue to the far-right.
We discuss a time when the Left hadnt lost its mind a decade ago. When the Left was not beset by the identarianism or liberalism we see plaguing it today. Leftwing political organising existed in a way that seems impossible now in radical politics (at least in North America & UK)
Woke race politics are so often racist and their batshit takes on disability leave disabled people vulnerable to abuse.
You can listen to our episode on this scandal, The Woke Race and Disability Politics of ‘Tell Them You Love Me’, here 👉
Pseudoscience isn't just incorrect—it can also be incredibly dangerous. This story is shocking and disturbing.
The new
@Netflix
documentary "Tell Them You Love Me" unveils the bizarre case of Anna Stubblefield, a disabilities professor who deluded herself into believing in
So we wanted to set up a debate between us co-hosts
@HannahBerrelli
and
@DrJenIzaakson
, but we agree on almost everything… in the end we found one topic: whether breastfeeding is labour? So we’ll be debating that on an upcoming episode! Hannah for Yes, Jen for No
NEW SPECIAL EPISODE! After taking part in a Twitter space organised by Australian feminists last week on the theme of feminism and the far-right, we spent this episode answering the rest of the questions intended to be discussed during the space.
“We don’t want men to control all the money and power in the family, and we also don’t men to control all the money and power in the state either”,
@HannahBerrelli
on a forthcoming episode
Conservatives define womanhood by sex stereotypes, so do transgenderists. Gender is a system that reinforces women’s subordination, and both the right and the queer left uphold it.
NEW episode! 🏳️⚧️
@ShayWoulahan
joins RedFem this week, standing in as co-host for Jen (who is under the weather), to discuss the state of play in defeating gender ideology. Are we returning to 'true trans'? Is Trans becoming cringe?
Our next episode out Monday on Apple & Spotify is on the concept of ‘bimboism’. The feminine archetype of empty headedness, vacancy, and nonchalance is making a return online. We ask why? And put the case for whilst the world burns, checking out mentally is a protective response.
How Nancy Kelley, ex-Stonewall CEO, was an asexual chummy figure cleverly placed to hide a thousand perversions, detransitioners who have 'human dysphoria', and why referrals to Gender Clinics are drying partly because Gen-Z is less institutional approval seeking than Millennials
and that lesbians on the Left often inadvertently reflect liberal-left women's 'low value' status (in heterosexual terms) back to them, making them uncomfortable with female homosexuality and our presence politically.
Just recorded an episode on what GNC and femininity actually are (concluding things like make-up are merely symbolic of femininity), argue for feminists going on Tucker Carlson from a far-Left perspective, and Jen says she’d fellate the devil himself for women’s rights. OUT🔜
In a change to promised scheduling our next episode will now be on the far-right and feminism, going through a series of questions
@KowalskiKit
didn’t get chance to ask at the space organised by her and
@msediewyatt
last week. Took us 1 hour 45 mins to get through them all!
Christmas came early for the RedFem studio! We hit our download goal for the year 🎉 Thank you to everyone who listens, ever suggests the podcast to their friends, or sometimes tweets our episodes 💛