Feminist Buzzkills

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Full episode transcript HERE. This week, the Feminist Buzzkills are drawing the terrifying picture of what pregnancy prosecutions look like in the US. Spoiler alert: Pregnancy-related prosecutions have been happening in the US forEVER and are happening NOW. Not in the future. NOW. In the US of A. Let that sink in. Some bright spots? There’s some accountability happening for all the awful sidewalk...

Full episode transcript HERE. The garbage anti-abobo people of America got real busy this week, but no need to fear, your Feminist Buzzkills are here to sift through all of the hot steaming trash for y’all! Catholic hospitals are doing what they do best and gobbling up small non-religiously-affiliated hospitals. We’re also blabbing about Qatar Airways announcing it will NO LONGER do invasive gynec...

Full episode transcript HERE.   All new podisode, all new SHIT WE CANNOT BELIEVE WE HAVE TO SAY. Colorado has taken the RADICAL position of saying you cannot take pills to reverse your abortion. Why RADICAL? Because in many of these United States, doctors are required to recommend that BS now, and the Buzzkills are here to rage and remind you that you cannot “Back To The Future” your abortion.  PL...

Full episode transcript HERE.   Big pod this week, diving right in! Soooo remember how Kansas voted to protect abortion access in a landslide ballot initiative? Guess that didn’t matter to the anti-abortion babadooks in the Kansas legislature. Ever since that win, they have FOUR DIFFERENT abortion restrictions that are laughably terrifying. We are breaking down every single one of them and asking...

Full episode transcript HERE.   The Feminist Buzzkills are back from break and guess who became more progressive than the USA while we were away? MEXICO, BABY! Their blissfully Amy Coney Barrett-free Supreme Court just DECRIMINALIZED ABORTION NATIONWIDE. It’s a huge deal and on this week’s pod, Moji and Lizz are sipping margaritas and explaining HOW huge, both for our southern neighbor AND for tho...

Full episode transcript HERE . There’s an abortion training crisis, Buzzkills, and Lizz and Moji want YOU to be informed. In this week’s episode, we get DEEP into it with the oh-so-marvelous Pamela Merritt, Executive Director of Medical Students for Choice. She’s here to educate your earholes with all the deets on how doctors and med students are fleeing states with shitty abortion bans, why EVERY...

Full episode transcript HERE. This week’s Feminist Buzzkills pod is comin’ atcha from the winner’s circle, because all we do is win! Things may still be garbage, but on this week’s podisode, the Buzzkills stop and celebrate the Ohio voters who were asked to vote on abortion (in a really screwy way) and WON! Just like every ballot measure since the Supreme Court destroyed Roe. Newsflash: PEOPLE WAN...

TW: Pregnancy Loss/Stillbirth Full episode transcript HERE. It’s Lizz’s birthday week!!! Celebrate with us by filling your earholes with the angelic voices of our Feminist Buzzkills. The anti-abortion tactics have gone TOO far, so we’re raging about it. We’re also spilling the pipin’ hot tea on everything that’s gone down this week in Abobolandia, including WTF is up with the latest wack abortion...

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills did a whole-ass LIVE SHOW in ATLANTA! We didn’t want y’all to miss out on our shenanigans, so we podified it for you! We packed the house at Terminal West, a dope comedy and music venue, and fed off all the vibezzzzzzz. As always, Moji and I broke down the stories that made steam blow out of our wherevers. Fetus lawyers? Abortion reporting acros...

Full episode transcript HERE. TW: Sexual Assault.  Welcome to PART TWO of the Feminist Buzzkills LIVE from Netroots Nation, AKA the largest gathering of progressive writers, activists, and organizers in America! In part two of this mini-series, the Buzzkills are serving up all the fresh, steaming hot abobo-related tea while also dragging Senator Tommy Tuberville for absolute filth as he continues...

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills take Netroots Nation in Chicago, AKA the largest gathering of progressive writers, activists, and organizers in America! And guess what? We’re delivering y’all THREE live tapings from each day we’re there! In part one of this mini-series, get an earful of us Buzzkillin’ about why we want to abort Iowa politicians, the latest update on the mifepr...

Full episode transcript HERE. When a podisode is THIS IMPORTANT, it gets posted twice. While the Feminist Buzzkills are off this week, we wanted to make sure you still got your dose of obliterating the patriarchy. Send our Dobbs Anniversary Special to your friends, your enemies, and everyone in between — nobody should miss this! WHEW. IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR SINCE DOBBS. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR BODILY A...

Full episode transcript HERE. The Supreme Court has us pissed off and unwell… again. Your Feminist Buzzkills are channeling that rage into another podisode for your earholes! Have you ever heard of a molar pregnancy? We hadn’t either. And spoiler alert: it’s terrifying. This episode is hard but important. We have an exclusive interview with one of the pod’s oldest friends, telling her own extremel...

Full episode transcript HERE. WHEW. IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR SINCE DOBBS. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR BODILY AUTONOMY IS? Time really flies when you’re having ksajfk;lsekljskv!!111!!!!! What has become of our reproductive landscape since the Dobbs decision took a wrecking ball to our rights? What were the major fallouts, what were the unexpected wins and losses, and where is this fight going next? Who better...

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills are back this week with a series of important questions, like, “Are there fetuses in the water, and is that why it’s so refreshing?” And, “If you’re cooking with fetuses, should you follow the recipe, or automatically double it like you do with garlic?” The Buzzkills have the rundown on why they cannot stop making these jokes. Spoiler: it involv...

Full episode transcript HERE. Looks like this summer’s shittiest must-have is shaping up to be … 12-week abortion bans? Yup, and we’re pissed about it. Your Feminist Buzzkills are here to break down why this trend is worse than the fur bikini. That’s not all that we are raging about! The wack anti-abobo ghouls in Nebraska want a teen and her mom behind bars for a self-managed abortion, and Texas i...

Full episode transcript HERE. Greetings fellow Buzzkillers! Moji & Marie are holding it down while Lizz is in Boulder raising money for clinics and doing a special FBK episode on this week’s Mife Oral Arguments that you should also check out!  But never fear, M&M are covering every godawful state legislature currently hurting people who need abortions which seems to be spewing out of the good ol’...

We listened to the whole ugly mifepristone hearing so you didn’t have to and then broke it down right here on this bonus podcast! FUN FACT: The hearing happened to coincide with Lizz doing a live Q&A in Boulder as a fundraiser for The Boulder Valley Health Center, so DOUBLE BONUS! AND TRIPLE BONUS, the Q&A was done with expert Repro Lawyer Jessica Mason Pieklo from the Boom! Lawyered podcast so th...

Full episode transcript HERE. This week, the Feminist Buzzkills go deep on a whole lot of sketchy shit spewing out of Texas including an OG anti-abortion law most people don’t know about that requires medical professionals to report ALL KINDS OF THINGS as “abortion complications,” even things that have literally nothing to do with abortion. A North Carolina rep flips on abortion, Louisiana legisla...

Full episode transcript HERE. The rumors are indeed true– Fox News aborted a 2,028 week-old baby, AKA Tucker Carlson. The Feminist Buzzkills are poppin’ off and reading every receipt on the hidden BS this fucker has done to ramp up and incite hatred against women, trans folks, non-binary people, and everybody who’s ever needed or provided an abortion. And we’ve got a bunch more receipts of some sh...

Full episode transcript HERE. The Feminist Buzzkills are having déjà vu all over again this week, as it’s yet another Friday and we’re waiting to see what Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is going to do to our abortion rights.  Now raise your hand if you’ve been losing your marbles over this Mifepristone abortion pill circle jerk. No need to fear, we’ve got Senior Counsel of The Lawyering Projec...

Full episode transcript is HERE. SPECIAL PODISODE ALERT! This week’s pod drop is ANYTHING but regular. The abortion pill BS doesn’t seem to be stopping, so your favorite Feminist Buzzkills put together an hour-long serotonin boost for y’all. It’s a special episode featuring some incredible abobo-loving, cis dude stand-ups who recently did a comedy fundraiser for Abortion Access Front in LA, it was...

The “Feminist Buzzkills” podcast is dropping an extra breaking news mini- episode this week to explain what the hell the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just did in response to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s recent ruling on the (totally safe) abortion drug mifepristone. Is it a win? It is NOT A WIN. Is Kacsmaryk still the religious right’s favorite activist judge? He sure is, but this Fifth Circuit pan...

Full episode transcript HERE . This week, on the ONLY weekly abortion podcast made by people IN the abortion field, your Feminist Buzzkills celebrate some MAJOR wins in Wisconsin! One of which includes AAF bestie, the fabulous and unstoppable Dina Nina being elected alder, making her the first openly trans woman to hold office in Madison, Wisconsin! She’s blessing us with her presence and spilling...