Multiple Os

On this episode, Oriana Fox interviews the world's leading green autistic drag queen, Oozing Gloop. They discuss  Gloop’s dream lifestyle; their failed politics degree; their views on autobiographical performance, autism and gender; and perhaps most importantly, their visionary political paradigm, commucracy. The interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's di...

Oriana Fox interviews seasoned showwoman Marisa Carnesky. They discuss showwomanship, raw talent, collaboration, menstruation and miscarriage, all of which are addressed in Carnesky Production’s accessible, provocative and political work. The interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video her...

Oriana Fox interviews the insatiable, sexy and weird performance artist Eirini Kartsaki who expounds her Manifesto and entices Oriana to show more cleavage. More accurately, Oriana listens to her guest and sometimes interjects with a question or two as Kartsaki fleshes out what it means to live a life free from norms and expectations, a life that is weird, inconsistent, too much and without childr...

This episode is a double feature as it includes not one but two interviews Oriana carried out with the performance artist Hannah Ballou. Last year, Oriana spoke with Ballou after she had just completed filming Goo:Ga II, itself a sequel to her 2015 feminist live art comedy show Goo: Ga I , which playfully subverted the gender reveal party and announced the sex of her first child, a much-desired da...

Oriana Fox interviews the activist, artist, mother, educator and Labour councillor Lena Šimić. Oriana gets some practical advice about how to become more politically active while balancing the demands of work, motherhood and art. Environmentalism and anti-capitalism are two of the causes that have occupied Šimić, so they discuss how she has tackled these issues creatively and within family life. T...

Oriana interviews the artist, curator and director of Home Live Art, Katy Baird. The two discuss the repeated response that Baird receives from audiences to her bold performances: "You're so brave!" After being blown away by her solo show Unreal (2018) Oriana herself had made some iteration of this remark to Baird, in response to which Baird promptly rolled her eyes. No offense was...

Oriana interviews her brother the filmmaker and activist Josh Fox. The two discuss their respective upbringing in the same home and how this may have impacted their very different approaches to art and activism. This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the episode here .  Dr Oriana Fox is a London-ba...

Welcome to Season 2 of Multiple Os podcast! You hopefully know the spiel by now, if you’re interested in candid confessions, creativity, non-conformity and mental health, you’ve come to the right place. This, my friend, is the much-anticipated trailer-teaser for Season 2, which explores the cross-over between working on the self and working to change the world.  Back in May 2021, Oriana was invite...

This episode is an interview that Oriana carried out in the summer of 2017 with the artist Katherine Araniello. Sadly, Araniello passed away in February 2019, but she leaves behind a rich body of work that is politically fearless and infused with subversive humour, some of which is excerpted and contextualised in this episode. Her videos and performances often entailed self-representation, but in...

In this episode, I speak with philosopher Nina Power, author of One-Dimensional Woman (2009) whose upcoming book playfully asks "What do men want?" in a nod to Freud's famous question. In this discussion, Power sheds light on her research into the manosphere, in addition to touching upon her experience of being cancelled for her views on sex and gender. My main focus, however, was t...

Oriana continues the interview begun on The O Show live edition on Instagram with the artist and author Season Butler. In that initial discussion, they spoke about the racial empathy bias, climate change and Bill Cosby, each of which has played a key part in Butler’s work. However, they both regretted not getting to discuss their shared passion for The Little Mermaid in all its incarnations. So he...

Jaye McBride is proudly transgender, yet self-deprecating humour is her stock and trade. In this candid interview, McBride discusses riding that line as well as the ups and downs of being an out trans woman comic, the doors that open while others shut; the fact that all her material is read as trans; and being told by liberal audiences that she shouldn't use the word 'tranny'. Her c...

Not only is the artist and businesswoman Ope Lori an expert in the politics of looking and desire, but she gets turned on by her own work. In this durational interview, Oriana Fox asks Lori about the lessons learned from making work that addresses the intersections of race and gender, and about how that has impacted her life and career. In this meandering discussion they touch upon the impact of t...

Oriana continues her conversation with the author and filmmaker Juliet Jacques whose work challenges mainstream misconceptions of trans identity. They discuss Jacques' film "You will be Free" which ruminates on the positives and negatives of facing death. Not only does the film say everything she thinks about life in ten minutes, but certain lines of it make her cry. They also discu...

Oriana speaks with writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques whose work poses a challenge to mainstream misunderstandings about trans lives. She has done this by putting her own stories in print through a blog in The Guardian, in her book Trans: A Memoir and through a new collection of short stories called Variations, which came out on 17 June. Speaking about her pivot to fiction, Jacques posits that te...

Oriana continues her conversation with sociologist and coach Jo Van Every who wrote the book Refusing to be a wife: Heterosexual women changing the family .  In the previous episode, Oriana spoke with Van Every at length about the personal choices she has made to live up to her feminist values in the domestic sphere, informed by her research into anti-sexist living arrangements. Their conversation...

Oriana Fox interviews Jo Van Every, the sociologist and coach who wrote the book Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to be a wife . The research that informed the book was prompted by the kinds of personal questions that come from being disillusioned with ‘little girl’s dreams’ about love, marriage and family. Although the book was published in 1995, the research contained therein abo...

Mentioned spontaneously by two prior guests in this very podcast series, the influential and pioneering performance artist and professor Lois Weaver needs no introduction. Yet Oriana provides a very lengthy one at the start of this interview with Weaver in which they discuss her alter ego, Tammy Whynot, who decided to stop being a country and western singer in order to start being a lesbian perfor...

Oriana speaks with the artist Harold Offeh whose practice engages with identity politics via an ambivalent and humorous self-casting within the pop-cultural material he admires (and in some cases, finds problematic).  He pre-empts his own type-casting by pointedly living within certain racialised stereotypes including the Mammy, an Afro-Brazilian manual labourer and a toilet attendant. The discuss...

Curious about heterosexual dating habits in the age of the internet? Want to hear about it from the perspective of a feminist artist? Look no further! Oriana speaks with artist Indrani Ashe whose project 50 Dates of Grey documented her search for a man to spend her life with, to marry in fact, via online dating platforms. Unbeknownst to the men Indrani was seeing, she kept a blog under the pseudon...

Should you embrace your curves by smearing yourself in Dove products, or drink slimfast and chase the thin dream? Either way, the same giant corporation will benefit. Do what you need to do, but listen to this podcast too! Oriana talks with the artist, psychotherapist and fat activist Charlotte Cooper, who is an outlier in every field in which she takes part. They discuss what it takes to keep doi...

In this interview with the artist Joshua Sofaer, Oriana asks for his help in finding her purpose, her why . He is, after all, a socially engaged artist who is deeply invested in turning life into art because art makes life more interesting than art. And, he's also a relational dynamics coach and Oriana pays for his services from time to time. They also discuss the possibility of breaking into...

This is part 2 of Oriana's interview with Hamja Ahsan, author of Shy Radicals . Hamja admits that if he dies tomorrow, he wants to be remembered for his interview on The O Show   episode " You're only as sick as your secrets ". But he's still not convinced that Oriana's series does anything other than promote extrovert supremacist, normative ways of living. Will Orian...

Oriana interviews Hamja Ahsan, leader of the introvert revolution. They discuss their mutual affliction, shyness. Or is it in fact their superpower? Oriana admits to feeling very guilty for having tried to convert shy people ever since Hamja made her painfully aware of how much of a sell-out she's been to the extrovert supremacy.  Will he convince her to wholly embrace her shyness or, better...

With this trailer, Oriana Fox, the artist with a Ph. D. in self-disclosure, launches the spin-off podcast to her talk show The O Show.   On The O Show Fox interviews artists and other experts who have no difficulty ‘spilling the beans’ about their lives and opinions, especially when they defy norms and conventions. So if you’re interested in candid confessions, non-conformity, creativity and menta...