Feminist Buzzkills

OYEZ! OYEZ! SCOTUS has dropped the EMTALA decision… Which should have been front and center in last night’s “Grumpy Old Men” reboot, but never fear, YOUR BUZZKILLS ARE HERE! The Supreme Court FINALLY made up its mind on the fate of the Emergency Medical and Labor Act (EMTALA) yesterday and your Feminist Buzzkills HAVE FACTS AND FEELINGS ABOUT IT!   What in the abobo hell even was the Idaho v. Unit...

Full episode transcript HERE .   MIFEPRISTONE IS HERE TO STAY!! For Now… The Supreme Court did a thing that we actually aren’t pissed about! This week, the Supremes ruled UNANIMOUSLY in favor of the abortion pill mifepristone! The Court rebuffed an unfounded and politically-charged challenge to the drug from anti-abortion assholes, and not even oppression’s handmaid Brett Kavanaugh took the bait....

Congrats on another week of surviving and fighting the patriarchy! Get your earholes ready because this week was a doozy. I think we all know by now, what happens in Texas does NOT stay in Texas. What BS are the womb hounds that run the Lone Star State pulling now? Their new kink is to blame doctors for people being denied abortion care. PLUS, the professors at University of Texas drank the kool-a...

Full episode transcript HERE . Biscuits, BBQ, and Bodily Autonomy - guess which one you won’t find in the South? We are in FULL rampage mode over the latest update out of Louisiana. The clown governor just signed into law a horrifying bill that reclassifies FDA APPROVED AND EXTREMELY SAFE abortion medications as "controlled dangerous substances." What does this mean for pregnant Louisianans? We br...

Full episode transcript HERE .   Lizz is out this week, but MOJI IS NOT ALONE. The fabulous and funny AF Abortion Access Front Head Writer, Alyssa “Dooks” Al-Dookhi, is BACK in the house to lead us through the anti-abortion fire – I mean, co-host – yet again! What do we got for y’all this week? Oh, how our tea spilleth over… We’ve got an UPDATE on that dusty-ass 1864 anti-abobo law Arizona clowns...

Full episode transcript HERE .    This episode was taped LIVE from the stunning Brownstone Cowboys Magazine HQ! We hosted an intimate in-person convo with Justice Correspondent for The Nation, Elie Mystal where we spilled all the dirty deets on abortion and the courts with a small audience of abortion-loving peeps. Get an earful of your Feminist Buzzkills and Elie decoding the EMTALA case that wen...

Full episode transcript HERE .   It’s the 100TH EPISODE of The Feminist Buzzkills podcast! Since our first episode broadcast live from Washington DC on the day of the Dobbs oral arguments, Feminist Buzzkills has been your #1 stop for all things abobo, and for that WE THANK YOU!    How does the ONLY weekly podcast from the activists on the ground celebrate 100 episodes? By doing a hilarious Feminis...

The Feminist Buzzkills are in FULL rage mode this week as our heads are still spinning from Arizona’s latest assault on people with a uterus. The ghouls on Arizona’s Supreme Court ruled that an 1864 abortion ban will be enforced in less than TWO WEEKS. Plus, what does it mean when three judges agree that Indiana’s near-total abortion ban does in fact violate Hoosiers’ religious freedom?  And the a...

Full episode transcript HERE .   What went down with bodily autonomy this week? The South is indeed Southing! The Florida Supreme Court hit the Sunshiners where it hurts– right in the ute. We bring you all the tea on what the Florida six-week ban means for abortion seekers throughout the South. BUT can the state’s ballot initiative save the day? AND what happens when Texas fucks around and charges...

Full episode transcript HERE .   The Feminist Buzzkills were at SCOTUS for the abortion pill, AKA Mifepristone, oral arguments with the Abortion Access Front team and some dope-ass volunteers! We took to the streets of DC with rage, force, and Beyoncé on full blast. If you haven’t heard us rant about it a million times already, our beloved LIFE-SAVING Mifepristone pill is being challenged, even th...

Full episode transcript HERE .   Lizz is back! This week’s secret words are “Fightmaster” and “Catalonia” – and they’re both making this world a much doper and safer place for folks with uteruses. Your Feminist Buzzkills are ranting and raging about the anti-abortion movement’s talent for inventing fake problems to solve, and then miraculously solving them. We’re also diving hard into these clowns...

Full episode transcript HERE. Happy Abortion Provider Appreciation Week AND International Women’s Day! Lizz is still vacay-ing it up, so Abortion Access Front Head Writer Alyssa (AKA, Dooks) is holding it down with Moji again - lucky us!    This week we’re reminding y’all why and how you should be supporting abortion providers year-round. We’re also spilling the pipin’ hot abobo tea from this week...

Full episode transcript HERE .   Another podisode where we tear the patriarchy apart! Lizz is in vacay mode, but Moji is here with brilliant guest host and AAF Head Writer Alyssa Al-Dookhi, AKA Dooks. This week we decode all of the IVF chaos that’s going down in not-so-sweet Alabama. We drag, expose, and deep dive into Tom Parker, the judicial creeper who just stuck his grubby hands in your IVF fr...

Full episode transcript HERE.    Well, well, it’s not every day your Buzzkills are graced with a MacArthur Genius fellow, but today is NOT one of those days!  Dr. Diana Foster Greene is in the pod house talking about her award-winning research paper, The Turnaway Study, which is a comprehensive look at the harms caused by folks being denied abortion care. It is incredible.   Lizz is out on the fil...

Full episode transcript HERE . The Feminist Buzzkills are bringing y’all TWO abobo pods for the price of one (FREE.99)! YUP, Moji is joining forces with the geniuses behind the fresh new abortion podcast, The A Files: A Secret History of Abortion, AKA the amazing heroic Renee Bracey Sherman and her writing partner Regina Mahone, who is also an editor at The Nation. WTF is The A Files? How does the...

Full episode transcript HERE.   SAVE THE DATE: March 26th is the date the Supreme Court will hear the abortion pill (mifepristone) case! What does this mean? What quack evidence did the anti-abobo clowns drag in? The Buzzkills got you. And when the awful-est activists in the country aren’t in court trying to destroy us? They’re working tirelessly behind the scenes on an anti-abobo-core thing calle...

CONTENT WARNING: Rape/Sexual assault  Full episode transcript HERE . The anti-abortion ghouls are ghouling this week and the Feminist Buzzkills are exposing and Buzzkilling! WHERE DO WE BEGIN?! How can a SCOTUS case about a HERRING FISHERY possibly destroy abortion access? WTF is the “Chevron Doctrine?” What’s with the F’ed up trend of redefining helping someone get an abortion as “abortion traffi...

Today’s weather in our nation’s capital was mostly patriarchy with scattered showers of dude-splaining, because today was the 50th annual MARCH FOR LIFE, the country’s biggest gathering of anti-abortion dickbags! Your Feminist Buzzkills watched so you don’t have to and we are naming, shaming, exposing and dragging the whole thing for filth, just the way we always do.  Did they try to appear like c...

Full episode transcript HERE .   New Year, New Pod Episode, Same Anti-Abortion Cruelty and Inhumanity! Happy 2024 fellow abobo warriors. Lizz is out this week but we got AAF comedy genius Alyssa “Dooks” Al-Dookhi holding down the fort with Moji, and they’re serving y’all all the tea we’ve been pissed about… *cough cough* we’re looking at you, Texas and Idaho. WTF did they do this time? WTF is EMTA...

Full episode transcript HERE.   It's been a hellacious year in Abortlandia and on this last pod of the year, we are counting down the best, worst, AND the weirdest stories of 2023.  Did we say the best ones? Yes, yes we did.  Fueled by lethally spiked eggnog, we made our lists and checked them twice, figured out what’s naughty and nice, and we’re bringing it to you in one big, delicious serving of...

STACKED POD ALERT:  What a pod we have this week, Buzzkillians! In case you missed it, the fuckwads over at SCOTUS decided to take on the mifepristone abobo pill case. WTF does it all mean? Chris Geidner, the brilliant Law Dork himself, swoops in to translate it out of dorky law words and into plain English for us. What else could possibly be getting the anti-abobo goblins’ rocks off this week? Ho...

Full episode transcript HERE.   What happens when two of our favorite abortion law experts who ALSO host their own podcast come over to guest host OUR podcast? MAGIC, BABY! This week, THE badass Imani Gandy and Jessica Pieklo from the “Boom! Lawyered” podcast co-host with Moji, and the feminist rage is on 10000! They share how their friendship was love at first tweet, what brings them hope, and ho...

Full episode transcript HERE .   Happy Oh-Shit-It’s-The-Holidays, Buzzkillians! Are you bracing yourself for the holiday season? No need to fear – the Liberal Redneck, Trae Crowder, and Dr. Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility and Nice Racism are here! These two badasses are dropping their hot tips for confronting your red-pilled relatives while preserving your integrity. Lizz and Moji put to...

Full episode transcript HERE . Ahoy Buzzkills! ABORTION IS ON THE BALLOT NEXT WEEK IN OHIO AND VIRGINIA! Lizz and Moji got y’all covered on everything you need to know about what these state elections mean for EVERYONE IN THIS TWISTED-ASS COUNTRY. We’re counting up all the last-minute dirty tricks anti-abortion extremists are unloading to fool folks as they head out to vote.   SPOILER ALERT: It’s...

Full episode transcript HERE. IT’S SPOOKY SEASON… which seems to be a year-round theme for the anti-abortion ghouls haunting our bodily autonomy. But, no need to fear! Your zombie-slaying Feminist Buzzkills are here to drop the facts on EVERYTHING you and your uterus need to know, deliver some hope, and drop marching orders on how we can continue obliterating the patriarchy.  If things aren’t scar...