Feminist Buzzkills

We are soooooooo back! It’s our FAVORITE time of the year: ABORTION PROVIDER APPRECIATION WEEK! Abortion Provider Day is on March 10th. It was started in memory of Dr. David Gunn, who was murdered by an anti-abortion extremist in 1993. As always, we choose to both honor the abortion providers who lost their lives and have been harmed by violent extremists, as well as the badass folks who continue...

TW: there is a story about sexual assault of minors around the time stamp 14:10-21.    Our Feminist Buzzkill Lizz is solo this week, serving you a pod full of horror — but with that super sweet pro-abortion cherry on top! She brings you up to speed on the latest WTAF reports of the government rounding up pregnant migrant teens and shipping them to a Texas prison known for not providing adequate he...

Your weekly report from Abobolandia is here, it’s hot, and it’s served up fresh with a heavy dollop of snark.  The attacks on the abortion pill mifepristone continue. HHS just said pharmacies don’t have to stock abortion pills anymore. Cool cool cool. Totally normal functioning democracy stuff. Meanwhile, manufacturers of the pill are gearing up to fight what could become a national telehealth abo...

Your Feminist Buzzkills are pouring out all the latest abobo-related tea that is bound to curdle your girdle! Nobody is coming to save us, folks—we’re doing the damn thing ourselves.    Lizz and Moji lay out how the Trump administration is using a law written to protect abortion providers to prosecute Don Lemon!    And Texas continues to Texas, as The Turning Point USA-ssholes at Texas Tech are ou...

It’s our (least) favorite time of the year – the March for Life, womp womp womp. AKA, the 100,000 person mega anti-abortion circle jerk in Washington, DC, where harassholes spend some of the coldest days of the year outside, yelling misinformation about abortion pill in the drinking water, fetus Ozempic, and pagan skulls all while staying silent as hell about ICE killing people and detaining child...

While Lizz is out spreading the pro-abortion gospel, your Buzzkill bestie Moji is joined by AAF Head Writer Alyssa Al-Dookhi, AKA Dooks, to dish on the latest and unfortunately-almost-always-not-so-greatest goings-on in the abobosphere! As abortion access is attacked on every front, you’ll hear about the scrappy communities coming together to make abortion care attainable for everyone, and how tho...

It’s only January and we’re already pissed. Your Feminist Buzzkills are officially BACK with our first pod of 2026, and we’re ready to fuck some shit up. Lizz and Moji are lacing up their boots and standing elbow-to-elbow with y’all every single day they come for one of us. From the latest escalation of the “there’s abortions in our water” panic to a huge abortion win in Wyoming, a LOT went down w...

*Mariah Carey voice* IT’S TIIIIIIIIME… For our annual year-in-review! HOE-HOE-HOLY shit, Buzzkillianas. 2025 was a hellacious year in Abortlandia, so you already know the Feminist Buzzkills are re-hashing, re-roasting, re-raging, and even re-celebrating over what went down this year in regards to all tings repro-related.   Lizz and Moji took a little sleigh ride down memory lane, made their lists...

EPISODE TW: Physical assault.    Satan’s misogynistic minions were hard at work this week… but so were we! The Supreme Court heard not one, but TWO abobo-related cases this week: First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin AND a case involving a violent clinic harasser we personally know all too well. SCOTUS is playing with the safety of pregnant people, the future of clinic protections, and...

EPISODE TW: Talk about sexual assault.   Fall is in the air! The crunch of crisp autumn leaves, the promise of pumpkin spice migraines, and the sound of your racist Uncle Dick popping open a Natty Light. IT'S TIIIIIIIIIIIMEEE *Mariah Carey voice* for the Feminist Buzzkills annual How-The-HELL-Am-I-Gonna-Deal-With-My-Family-During-The-Holidays SPECIAL EPISODE!   GUEST ROLL CALL! Joining us to arm y...

Your favorite Feminist Buzzkills are BACK and getting real with the woman who dared to take on the biggest ogre on the planet (Bubba’s BFF, we’re looking at you) and WON! TWICE! THE ONE AND ONLY E. JEAN CARROLL IS IN THE HOUSE. Buckle up: the brilliant journalist, advice columnist, and slayer of the Predator-In-Chief, E. Jean Carroll, teaches us all about how she used humor and fashion as a weapon...

So much happened this week in the abortionsphere and it was creepy with a cherry on top. Lizz and Moji discuss the right wing apoplexia that has cascaded in the wake of the FDA approving a new generic abortion pill (trigger warning: JOSH HAWLEY MENTIONED!!!!). Also in the news, JOSH HAWLEY’S WIFE AND PATRIARCHY IN THE UK. Listen up and learn exactly how Erin Hawley is working with Union Jackass Ni...

We’re back and ready to rage hard and dive deep into this week’s mosh pit of anti-abortion ass-wagging with y’all! Prepare thyself for a full breakdown of Pregnancy Justice’s study on the shocking rise in the criminalization of pregnancy, abortion and miscarriage. Plus, hold onto your cheeks, ‘cause your Buzzkills are blowing Pam Bondi’s latest scam wide open: hijacking a federal law meant to prot...

There’s a new bombshell in the villa: a fresh episode of Feminist Buzzkills! Lizz and Moji are BACK TOGETHER for the first in a long time to raise hell! Now that RFK Jr. has officially called for an FDA investigation into medication abortion, your Buzzkills gotta break down the actual facts and the totally fictional, completely made up study that prompted this whole fiasco! We’re talking Tylenol,...

Feminist Buzzkills is officially BACK! WHEEEEE! Lizz is still out meeting with activists and speaking at screenings of the AAF documentary, “No One Asked You,” at The Colombia International Human Rights Festival (dopeness alert). And HUZZAH—joining Moji is AAF’s inimitable Head Writer, Alyssa “Dooks” Al-Dookhi to guest co-host! They’re diving into abortion providers handling IUD insertion pain lik...

Follow along with slideshow visuals HERE.   ENCORE ALERT! The Feminist Buzzkills are out on a summer break! But, no need to fear – we’re leaving y’all with some extra brain juice to keep you company while we’re offline. We’re dropping an ENCORE POD EPISODE of when we collabed with the iconic “Boom! Lawyered” hosts Imani Gandy and Jess Pieklo IN DC and broke down SCOTUS’ Medina v. Planned Parenthoo...

MINI-SODE ALERT! The Feminist Buzzkills are out on a summer break! But, no need to fear—we’re leaving y’all with some extra brain juice to keep you company while we’re offline. We’re dropping a very fun MINI SPECIAL POD EPISODE that we taped earlier this summer with the geniuses (and SISTERS!) behind “The Turnaway Play,” Diana Greene Foster and Lesley Greene!   “What is the Turnaway Play?” you ask...

Follow along with visuals here   This week FBK brings you Operation Save Abortion! It’s a Podcast! It’s a Workshop! It’s a combination podcast workshop! A Podshop if you will! Your Feminist Buzzkills took some big patriarchy-smashing heat to The Big Easy and recorded a live episode that dropped some knowledge and trains you up  to keep fighting against the anti-abortion machine. Lizz and Moji join...

Your favorite Buzzkill duo are back at it with hot takes, hot guests, and plenty of RAGE! What went down this week in Abobolandia? Well… let’s just start with a win—Ken Paxton: 0 Texas abortion provider, Dr. Margaret Carpenter: 1. HUZZAH! Also, what happens in West Virginia certainly won’t stay in West Virginia—we’re laying out the latest terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decision curbing acce...

Have no fear! Lizz and Moji are BACK this week and bringing you a big beautiful breakdown of all the ways the Big Bullshit Bill is coming for our abortion rights, even when abortion isn’t explicitly mentioned… because why not be as sneaky as possible, amirite? AND we spill the tea on this week's crop of anti-abortion schemes to ruin our reproductive lives.    GUEST ROLL CALL! FBK bestie Pamela Mer...

SPECIAL PODISODE! THREE YEARS SINCE THE FALL OF ROE? Woof. It’s been a heavy three years and an even heavier past few weeks.    June 24th marks the 3rd anniversary of the fall of Roe (sobs). So, diving into what has happened to abortion access since then means bringing in THE BIG GUNS. It’s big Buzzkill energy as Lizz welcomes the incomparable constitutional genius Dr. Michele Goodwin to talk abou...

Welcome back to your weekly dose of Feminist Buzzkilling! Moji’s off on a well-deserved vacay, but Lizz is holding it down despite this week’s abobo news spawning a major ewww alert. Prepare yourselves.   We’re approaching the three-year anniversary of the obliteration of Roe and guess what? Lizz unpacks a study on how ye olde gender gap on abortion is getting even WIDER. Spoiler: turns out chival...

Your favorite Buzzkills are BACK with a pod that is gonna knock your dang socks off. Lizz and Moji break down healthcare carpetbagger Dr. Oz’s latest EMTALA bullshit. The Grifter-In-Chief’s administration made it clear this week that they’re coming full force for a 2022 guidance that mandated hospitals provide EMERGENCY abortions. It’s giving “Make America Flatline Again.” PLUS: we dive into fresh...

Woof. The anti-abortion cretins really brought their fuckery to the yard this week. The BS popped off from the Lone Star State all the way to the UK, so Lizz and Moji are back to lay it all out for you with some incredible guests, and dish on the week’s good, bad, and mostly bad abortion stories! You know—the usual. Your Buzzkills will break down the tragic FIVE MONTH criminalization of a Texan wo...

Scared? Got Questions about the continued assault on your reproductive rights? THE FBK LINES ARE OPEN! Just call or text (201) 574-7402, leave your questions or concerns, and Lizz and Moji will pick a few to address on the pod!   What’s going down in abobo town this week? Lizz and Moji gotchu and are reminding everyone to HOLD THE APPLAUSE – Yes, Trump’s DOJ just asked to dismiss a lawsuit aiming...