After Work Drinks

This week we’re talking to Alexis Haines, who you will probably know her by her maiden name, Alexis Neiers. Alexis was a pop culture sensation in the late noughties - star of the reality TV series 'Pretty Wild', and best known for her involvement in the infamous ‘Bling Ring’, a group of LA teens who were sentenced to prison for a string of burglaries of high profile celebrities in 2009. The case w...

Hello our favourite batch of humans. Welcome to another cross-country episode! This week, Izzy is officially back in London but Grace is galavanting in Italia. We have a frank discussion about revisiting places where you've experienced trauma, what growing up religious taught us (if anything?) and whether or not you should ever get back with your ex, a la Khloe Kardashian. Then, it's into a New Yo...

This week we are sooooo thrilled to be speaking to the iconic feminist author Naomi Wolf. This year is the 30th anniversary of her seminal book, The Beauty Myth - a book which changed both our lives (and which you would’ve heard us and AWD fave Florence Given reference many times before). We talk to Naomi about the ways beauty standards continue to oppress women, how women are pressured to be comp...

If you’re from NZ, you’ll need no introduction to the powerhouse that is Chlöe Swarbrick who was elected age 23, making her the country’s youngest MP in over 40 years and who has since gone on to become a sort of AOC figure thanks to her no bullshit nature and insistence that she doesn’t have to give up on her personality - band tees included - just to be taken seriously in parliament. Internation...

Izzy, pro surfer, has discovered a hot new gentleman who’s already pretty damn famous and Grace has finally listened to a recommendation: the brilliant new show Lovecraft Country, which we discuss on today's episode. Man Repeller founder Leandra Medine has returned to Instagram accompanied by a lengthy blog piece detailing her absence after the company was accused of racist practises. But does her...

We are so stoked that our first episode back from break is with Jari Jones, the incredible producer, model and activist whose Calvin Klein billboard, which was debuted on Juneteenth in New York City in the middle of Black Lives Matter and Pride Month, went completely viral, skyrocketing her into the spotlight - exactly where she belongs. We speak to Jari about trans inclusion in the fashion indust...

We're back, baby! Up this week: surfing Malibu with Jonah Hill and the one time a former Bachelor frontrunner slid into Grace's DMs. Then it's onto Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's new song, WAP. Is the backlash - and a petition with over 70,000 signatures - over Kylie Jenner’s cameo justified? Why are men so shocked when women talk about their own bodies? WTF is a gushie? And the hilarious viral...

This week, we’re so excited to be speaking with British journalist and feminist author Caitlin Moran, whose 2011 book ‘How To Be A Woman’ is credited by everyone from Clementine Ford to our very own Grace O’Neill as being one of the books that originally got them embracing the feminist movement. Now, another of Caitlin's books, a true-ish story of her life as an up-and-coming music journalist...

Hi! It's our final ep before our mid-year break! This week, we're fangirling over Ziwe, the comedian you need to be following, who uses comedy to discuss racism, baiting her (usually white and unsuspecting) guests in a way that’s both essential and uncomfortable to watch. Then, it's onto a brief chat about how the Melbourne woman in quarantine and the security guard, who are rumoured to be to blam...

We’re so, so excited to bring you this week’s conversation with Brandon Kyle Goodman, an actor and producer who you probably know from the likes of ‘Modern Love’ (yes, he’s kissed Hot Priest) and ‘Feel the Beat’. But more recently, Brandon has been front and centre because of his viral videos on the topic of race, some of which have garnered millions of views. Brandon has been an incredibly instru...

Hello and welcome to another episode of After Work Drinks. We're starting on a somber note today, as three of the biggest fashion magazines in Australia - coincidentally the magazines that brought us together all those years ago - are closed. We talk about the legacies of ELLE , InStyle and Harper’s BAZAAR and (try to) instil a little hope in all you aspiring young writers about the future of the...

Welcome sweet angels to another episode of After Work Drinks With. This week, we're speaking with Pandora Sykes, journalist, author and co-host of the incredibly popular British podcast, 'The High Low'. Ahead of the release of her first book, ‘How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right?’, we speak to Pandora about everything from the social identity of motherhood and what it means to be 'flattened' as a...

Hello angels! We are so bloody excited for you to hear this one. On today's episode, we’re speaking to Florence Given, the British woman who became an internet sensation by encouraging women everywhere to dump their shitty boyfriends. Florence is an activist, an ally, and an author, with her first book, 'Women Don’t Owe You Pretty' (already a bestseller in the UK) out in Australia this week. We sp...

Welcome to another jam packed episode. Up first, what the fuck is happening in Melbourne right now? A few TV and movie recommendations that you need to watch immediately plus, how Grace waited seven years to watch Hamilton only to realise it was problematic AF. Then, naturally, it’s over to Kanye West, who is keeping good on his word to move the Kardashian clan into the White House. Is Kanye West...

Hello angels! Welcome to another episode of After Work Drinks With… This week we’re so thrilled to be talking to activist and author Gina Martin. Gina is best known for single-handedly making upskirting illegal in the UK (!) Following a horrific encounter at a music festival, Gina was told by police that they couldn’t do anything to help her because what had happened to her wasn’t technically a cr...

Hello fellow after work drinkers! This week we're fan-girling over Michaela Coel (again), investigating why Timmy Chalamet's bous tour of Cabo has enraged Twitter and lapping up Netflix's new documentary Disclosure, which gives an incredible history of trans representation on screen. Next it's a throwback topic: Kim Kardashian and women who promote unrealistic beauty standards to other women. Kim'...

Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of After Work Drinks With. This week we are so excited to be talking to the incredible Madeleine Madden. Madeleine is an Australian actress known for her roles in Picnic At Hanging Rock, Dora and the Lost City of Gold and Mystery Road. But Maddy’s just as well known for her activism, something she’s been involved in publicly since age 13 when...

Hi, hello! We kick things off on a really light note this week: with an existential crisis (seriously what is the point of life?) that started off as an off-air chat that we decided to hit record on. Then it’s onto Gen Z, who are they single-handedly saving democracy. Why are they so much cooler than us? And while we’re at it - why do we have a royal family in 2020? Is the monarchy the next c...

Hello and welcome to another episode of AWD With... This week, we're joined by the powerhouse Char Ellesse. A British model and activist, Char is best known for her radical digital platform Girls Will Be Boys , which celebrates the full spectrum of gender identity through amazing short films. Vogue love her, Dazed love her, and so do we. We chat to Char about the liberation of baldness, internalis...

It's been a big week for Instagram apologies, resignations and cancellations. We look at the mass controversy surrounding The Wing - once dubbed the 'feminist Utopia' and now mired by a string of shocking staff abuse claims - many racially motivated. With the likes of Bon Appetit and Man Repeller among the media companies pulled into the fray, we ask whether or not white editors resignations actua...

JK Rowling's terribly timed Twitter rant about trans women has us all googling 'TERF' - what is a 'Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist' and are they as awful as they sound (yes). What happens when your sentimental childhood heroes let you down? And how long can we excuse ignorance in our public figures? Then it's onto the police! Why is there now a mainstream movement to 'abolish' the police force...

The Black Lives Matter protests are still going in the US, prompting marches and tributes everywhere from NZ to London. In such a pivotal time for the movement we discuss whether posting on Instagram is helpful, why we shouldn’t be focusing all our energy on looting, how to actively engage in anti-racism and why it’s so important that we don’t think of this as just an American issue. Then, we move...

Hello and welcome to another instalment of After Work Drinks With… This week we’re talking to comedian and general legend Mary Beth Barone. Mary Beth is one of the most exciting comedians in New York right now, dubbed by Time Out as one of the 30 women ‘making New York cool again’. Her comedy show, Drag His Ass, became a sensation - dubbed as a program for recovering fuckboy addicts - and her abil...

Last week we talked about white fragility and white feminism, this week we're seeing it in action all over again. Queen of the Sad Girls™️ Lana Del Rey landed herself in hot water this week with her strange and ill-advised Instagram PSA, suggesting there is no 'room for people who like her' in the culture. What is she talking about! And how does race a play a role? Plus, how Scarlett Curtis' raw h...

It's our second episode of After Work Drinks With and we are so very excited to be chatting to Jessica Barden. Starting as an actress in her early teens, Jess nabbed roles alongside the most formidable names in British acting, including Saoirse Ronan, Carey Mulligan and Olivia Colman. But it was her critically acclaimed role as Alyssa in Netflix’s mega-hit The End of the F*cking World (incidentall...