Feminist Buzzkills

WE ARE SOOOOOOO BACK. Bluenami has entered the chat! This week on Feminist Buzzkills, Lizz and Moji cover it all from ballot initiatives to busting the patriarchy with facts, feelings, and some deeply necessary petty bullshit about the enemies of change.   On The Agenda: Does this bluenami mean we get our abortion rights back? Or are we celebrating while the Trump administration keeps trying...

It’s the Eve of Halloween and the week was full of creepy crawlies! Like Billy Corgan slithering into our timelines with the white man horror classics. This week’s abobolandia news is putting the “trick” in trick-or-treat: the Assman-In-Chief has ordered all his minions running for office to stand down any plans related to stripping abortion access until after the midterms. Have no fear! Lizz and...

The anti-abortion goblins are out, and unfortunately, putting a twelve-foot skeleton in your yard will not keep them out of your medical decisions. The Feminist Buzzkills are back to help you defeat the bodily autonomy snatchers this spooky-ass election season. PLUS, what gremlin of a man is all up on the new season of Love Is Blind accusing pregnant 11-year-olds of "just not getting around to" ge...

Watch the video version HERE (Filmed, streamed and produced by ACT.TV) Access the toolkit HERE   In this episode, your Feminist Buzzkills bring another installment of the AAF series: Operation Save Abortion! It’s a VIDEO and audio podcast LIVE from the lawn of the Nation’s Capitol where Lizz and Moji were joined by abortion storytellers and all-around badasses to bring you the ultimate Medica...

ENCORE ALERT! If you’ve been anywhere near us lately, you know we’ve been VERY busy yelling about mifepristone. Lizz and Moji have been MIA from the podosphere the last couple of weeks because our badass team at Abortion Access Front just wrapped up the Mife Stories Project in DC, a 24-HOUR mifepristone storytelling marathon, where we joined some incredible leaders in the pro-abobo movement to rea...

Earlier this week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in Louisiana v. FDA , the case that could decide whether mifepristone remains available through telehealth, pharmacies, and the mail. If ya didn’t know, for the last YEAR The Boot State has been obsessing over giving access to the abortion pill mifepristone the boot. So you best believe the Buzzkills dove head, nose, ears, and t...

ENCORE ALERT! The Feminist Buzzkills are off for a much needed end-of-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. One thing about us: we will ALWAYS do THE MOST to protect medication abortion. So, in honor of that, we’re dropping an encore episode from May, when we tried to make sense of the mifepristone case headed t...

MINI-SODE ALERT! The Feminist Buzzkills are out on a summer break, but we know your earholes need a pro-abobo fix – so we GOTCHU!    GUEST ROLL CALL: Remember the story of the Indiana OB-GYN who, just days after Roe v. Wade was overturned, performed a LIFE-SAVING abortion on a 10-year-old CHILD who was turned away for care by the state of Ohio back in 2022? WELL, your Buzzkills brought in that AMA...

Another week, another weekly dose of your fav podcast, and international abortion hellscapes are just where it starts! Your Buzzkills explore the fatberg of shitty reactions to Massachusetts expanding abortion access, plus a short trip to the land of magical anti-abortion thinking, AKA a place where people (mostly white dudes) ask questions no one wanted answered, like: What if we decriminalized r...

The Buzzkillians are back together again!! Lizz spills the tea to Moji about her travels in Vienna and they yap it up about AOC’s public fertility journey and who’s big MAD about it! ALSO, no one is asking the real head scratchers about the surrogate from Alaska who refused an abortion, so the Buzzkills are blabbing about it with the Abortion AF team! We don’t have many answers, but we DO have mor...

Lizz is off being fabulous at a super cool abortion conference this week so Moji is joined by the brilliant, Legal Analyst Baddie known as Jess Pieklo!! Wooooooooo! Jess and Moj are getting into the dirty deets of Florida's latest attempt to win the gold medal in the Anti-Science Olympics. PLUS! Because cops continue to find new and creative ways to disappoint us, they also cover reports out of Bo...

Yer Buzzkills break down the facts about Trump’s silent but deadly CDC nominee. Sure, she gleefully promoted surveillance on abortion seekers, but it’s what she DIDN’T say in her confirmation hearings that could be worse than a Jesse Watters stag party at a Taco Bell. All that and a lawsuit win comes out of South Dakota, updates drop on the Texas midwife story we’ve been following, and Josh Hawley...

Holy Cyclosporiaaaaaa Batman! This week in Abobolandia was literally a shitstorm. Lizz and Moji have the deets about the confirmation hearings of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche AND your faithful Buzzkills dissect the latest scheme cuntservatives have hatched to try and end mifepristone. Expect Planned Parenthood, E. Jean Carroll, and Lindsey Graham updates, too — this week’s podcast is so ju...

Lizz and Moji are taking out the trash, AKA the HHS’s new “IVF embryos are babies” scheme. Plus, their ginormous cuts to teen pregnancy prevention programs and the new and nefarious ways they wanna spend that cash. HINT: it involves abstinence, trans “derangement,” and a whole slop of other BS.    GUEST ROLL CALL:   Caro Claire Burke, author of the summer blockbuster, Yesteryear, is here to talk t...

Welcome back, Buzzkills! It’s been four years since the fall of Roe and we are full to the brim of righteous feminist rage! Wouldst thou care to dance deliciously with us? GUEST ROLL CALL We had to bring in the heaviest hitter for this week’s Dobbs anniversary podcast. Your Buzzkills have the perfect guest for this horribleversary — journalist and author of Killers of Roe, Amy Littlefield . Amy br...

Sound the alarms, because the buzzkillin’ is fresh! We’ve got a short and sweet episode for y’all this week,and lucky for you we managed to get a repro rockstar to rip apart the patriarchy with us!   GUEST ROLL CALL: Taja Lindley, the Executive Director of All-Options, is on the mic! She gabs with Lizz and Moji about reproductive justice and the amazing, much needed work of All-Options, one of the...

Lizz and Moji are back with a piping hot batch of podcast just for you! They scoured last weekend’s chunderfest that was the TRAD POINT USA fest (AKA Charlie Kirk’s Angels auditions) so you didn’t have to! Then to go even darker, they go deep into uncovering a chaotic scheme involving two anti-abortion clowns who fully live in Tennessee but have decided to run for congress in New Jersey and… Hawai...

Y’ALL — the abortion news is POPPING OFF this week! Lizz and Moji are wading through allllll of the headlines so YOU don’t have to! From Trump's new “Harass Doctors, Win Cash Prizes!” program, to the uptick of patients literally giving birth in shackles, plus a Viagra study that will make your head explode, your favorite Buzzkills are making sure you are up on all the abortion news fit to infuriat...

The Supreme Court says abortion pills can still be mailed… FOR NOW! Which means Lizz and Moji have spent the last several days stress sweating through every twist, loophole, and terrifying little breadcrumb in this mifepristone decision. We break down what the ruling actually means, how Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito continue their quest to become the most divorced-from-reality men alive, and why a...

IT’S BEEN A WEEK!!! Lizz and Moji have been chugging Imodium the last seven days as they follow the twists and turns of the Fifth Circus Court ruling that created a federal ban and put the mail distribution of the abortion pill mifepristone on the chopping block. Between Sam Alito giving us a week of reprieve to dial back our panic to 23/7 and the FDA assessing the fate of abortion medication usin...

hearing against the FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) Act convened by anti-abortion extremists on the House Judiciary Committee! If you could stomach the question, “What’s your favorite type of abortion?” WE TOOK A ZOFRAN AND BARRELLED THROUGH IT FOR YOU! PLUS, Tennessee’s Attorney General just CANCELED a Very Very Important lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s near-total abortion ban that l...

TW: Topics of SA and r*pe between the timestamps of 14:26-23:00.   Abobolandia is a dumpster fire of sexpest-maxxing this week and Lizz and Moji are diving into it all for you. Plus…. Word on the street is the newly-released abortion DOJ “investigation” mentions AAF – god forbid a girl has hobbies. Plus Unpacking Swalwell is and the CNN R*pe Academy story. This episode is bound to piss you off, so...

It’s another edition of “What the actual fuck is going on?” LFG.   Our intrepid Feminist Buzzkills Lizz and Moji are back and bringing good news from Middle Earth — you know, Illinois and Wisconsin. They also go deep laying out how this week's attack on birth control, abortion, military rights, and voting rights are the latest ingredients in the larger toxic stew of oppression being cooked up by o...

The Feminist Buzzkills are doing what they do best… raging against whatever patriarchal BS the misogynistic minions spewed out this week! If we have to know about it, so do you! The Sunshine State is doing the most to go full-on FORCED C-Section State, and we’re spilling the latest updates about the Georgia woman charged with MURDER for allegedly trying to self-manage her abortion, and are Viola D...

Our fav Buzzkill babes Lizz and Moji are coming at ya this week with incredible topics and incredible guests! First off- We truly owe them a debt of gratitude — they took one for the feminist team, and watched the Netflix Inside the Manosphere documentary so we don’t have to . Warning: after listening, be prepared for the overwhelming urge to jump in the shower and scrub the misogyny off for the n...