After Work Drinks

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...

After Alison Roman apologised to Chrissy Teigen and Marie Kondo, we took to Instagram to praise Chrissy for her graceful response. But we showed a blind spot in the process - how quick the world is to downplay the racially charged comments of white women. After an amazing listener called us out, we got her on the phone to talk through this textbook case of white feminism in action - and it came no...

Hello ducklings. Welcome to a brand new episode of After Work Drinks. The question we get asked the most from our listeners is about our jobs - and so this week we're dedicating our episode to our first love: magazines, and on that front, we're incredibly excited to be speaking to formidable editor Alexandra Shulman CBE. Alexandra is the longest-serving editor in the history of British Vogue , wit...

Welcome to our brand spanking new series! Every second Saturday we’re bringing you an interview with someone we’ve handpicked because we (and by extension, you) would love to sit down and have a drink with them. First up? Actress and on-the-rise Hollywood darling Nesta Cooper. Following turns in the Netflix megaseries 'Travelers' and indie hits like 'The Edge of Seventeen', Nesta hit the big time...

Hello everyone! It's a new week and we are feeling... anxious . Is anyone else having a strangely negative reaction to returning to the uncertain 'real world' after lockdown? Life in a society is scary! And we're trying to help you work through your post-lockdown fears, with a little (a lot of) help from Izzy's therapist. Plus, Cazzie David's great essay on egomania in lockdown, a mind-blowing int...

Welcome iso babies to the fourth and final episode of AWD Dinner Parties. Up this week, Gab Waller, the celebrity personal shopper who's to thank for most of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's enviable wardrobe; Melissa Mason, the editor whose hilarious PEDESTRIAN.TV stories are constantly going viral; and Ava Matthews, the founder of our cult 'skinscreen' brand, Ultra Violette. Discussions include but a...

'Hello everyone!' This week we are naturally knees deep in Normal People - the adaptation of Sally Rooney's 10/10 novel that has us all swooning and missing being horny teenagers. Money and class are huge themes in the series, which sent us into a rabbit hole about money, shame and how the size of our bank accounts are playing a determining factor in how stressful we find this pandemic. Then it's...

Welcome, friends, to a brand spanking new dinner party. This week? Another amazing lineup filled with women we love. First up is Georgie Currie, the creative wunderkind behind beloved fashion label Georgia Alice. Georgia is an open book about how COVID-19 is impacting her business, navigating the choppy waters of sustainability and raising a son in 2020. Then it's onto activist, writer and sex wor...

On the agenda this week, Reese Witherspoon - Icon! Hero! Angel! Legend! Queen! - and why she’s the Hollywood heavyweight we all need to be paying (even) more attention to; Zoom Human Design readings; an undiscovered Laura Dern show; why ‘Too Hot to Handle’ surprisingly pulled on our heartstrings and finally: S-E-X. We have filmmaker, actress and host of ‘The Happy Vagina’ podcast Mika Simmons join...

Hello and welcome to week two of our very special new COVID-inspired spin-off series: After Work Drinks Dinner Parties. We're turning our weekly wine-induced Zoom calls with an array of hilarious and funny friends from around the world into a handful of extra bonus podcasts for you all. This week, we're speaking to New York-based actress Keisha Castle-Hughes who was thrust into stardom at age 11 a...

Today we're chatting body image in isolation, partly inspired by Jameela Jamil's delightful interview with the glorious Beanie Feldstein. Lockdown seems to be making us more aware of ours bodies than ever, so it feels timely to be unpacking some of those dangerous body ideals that women have been trying to fend off since, well, forever. Plus, we discuss 'Run', Vicky Jones new HBO series and fan-gi...

Hello and welcome to a very special new COVID-inspired spin-off series: After Work Drinks Dinner Parties. We're turning our weekly wine-induced Zoom calls with an array of hilarious and funny friends from around the world into a handful of extra bonus podcasts for you all. For our debut ep, we have Polly 'PJ' Harding - radio host extraordinaire and friend of Izzy's from way back; Jessica Vander Le...

No, you’re not going even crazier than expected in isolation: today is Wednesday and it’s our new episode release day because we love to keep you on your toes. On the agenda, a look at infamous influencer ‘scammer’ Caroline Calloway’s response to her former best friend Natalie’s tell-all article which leads us to discuss the wider influencer industry’s movements - to the Hamptons, to be exact - du...

Hello and welcome to week 3 (or whatever it is) of self-isolation. Naturally we’re knee deep in all things Tiger King - the Netflix series keeping us all distracted during this dark time. Please enjoy our thoroughly non high-brow discussion about how batsh*t insane the whole thing is. Plus, a whole dose of new TV, podcast and reading recommendations; why House Party is embroiled in some insane hac...