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It's Easter! In this very special episode the collective discusses Easter egg chocolate. What is your favourite Easter chocolate? Do you think Jess should receive free Hotel Chocolat? Yeah, so do we.  Have a wonderful Easter everyone! Answer more of Ria's questions are riasquestions.com Please do review, subscribe and share our little podcast. We'd love to hear more from our wonderful listeners in...

Tonya speaks Active Activism with Clark County Poet Laureate  Emeritus Vogue Robinson. Vogue M. Robinson – poet, author, mentor, and teaching artist – has an appreciation for human beings who put truth and heart into words. She served as poet laureate of Clark County, Nevada and is the first Black woman to receive the Silver Pen award from the Nevada Writers' Hall of Fame. Her first poetry collect...

In this episode, Jess speaks with Jane Austen mega fan, writer and college professor Tony Farina about Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park. Tony explains the intricacies and brilliance of the characters and the underlying social commentary in this book, and in the process convinces Austen-skeptic Jess to give it another try. Tony also talks about growing up with ADHD, finding his way through divorce and...

Welcome to Femme on Film where host Ria Carrogan and a guest chat about films made for women, about women, by women… just awesome lady (and those who identify as awesome lady folk) content that has often been unfairly maligned, misunderstood by critics, and are often way ahead of their time and need a revisit. This is a place to discuss all of this, and more! This episode was the first ever Femme...

It's time for Ria's Questions! This episode the Collective discusses smells. Smelly (in a good way) soap, weird smells they like, and just smell in general. Listen and come join in the conversation. Thank you to Tony Farina for the amazing Ria's Questions intro music. https://www.riasquestions.com/

Ria leads a discussion with Alyson, Tonya and special guest Michelle Yang about the women of HBO's The Last of Us. They discuss the naunced female characters, all who have their own agency and point of view and how this enhances the overall story. Michelle is a writer and mental health advocate and you can follow Michelle's amazing work at michelleyangwriter.com or via Instagram: @michelleyangwrit...

Alyson and Ellen Birkett Morris (Author of Lost Girls , Abide and Surrender ) discuss a scene from the White Rock episode of Pamela Adlon’s show, Better Things (Season 2, Episode 9, see a trailer here ). Pamela plays Sam, a single mother of three girls. In this episode she takes them to Canada for a magical visit with her aunt and uncle. During the visit secrets are revealed and the youngest daugh...

Ada, Ria, Tony Farina and Amy Bobeda gather in the Dickinsons front room to discuss the final season of AppleTV's Dickinson. They discuss Emily's place amongst war poets, how women have to adapt to survive and thrive and the atrocities of the American Civil War. And poetry, of course. Find out more about Riot by Walter Dean Myers https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6450024 Find out more about T...

Tonya speaks Active Activism with Marta Kauffman Marta Kauffman is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the co-creator of the NBC sitcom Friends. She also produced Veronica's Closet and Jesse . From 2005 to 2006 she was an executive producer on Related . She co-created the HBO series Dream On and the Netflix series Grace and Frankie . She heads a production company call...

Emily's Website: https://emilystoddard.com  Order Divination With a Human Heart Attached : https://emilystoddard.com/poetry-book  On Twitter: https://twitter.com/emilystoddard  The Poetry Bulliten: https://www.poetrybulletin.com  

The Collective discuss butts. Bums. Bottoms. Arses. Asses. BUTTS. And the best bit of them. And remember - consensual butt touching is sexy. Non-consensual butt touching is not and it is sexual assault. Don't be a butt-head. Read more Ria's Questions at riasquestions.com

Jess speaks to journalist and producer Kitty Busz about When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. Kitty explains where she was in her life when she first read this book, and why she always keeps it close by. We talk about grief, death and dying, and the honesty and beauty in Paul’s words. Follow Kitty @wanderingkb Follow Jess @jess_bdavies  Visit Jess’ blog: sixhundredwordsonlife.com

Alyson and Ria (host of Femme on Film, Pop Guerrilas and founder of the Femme On Collective) talk about the HAND FLEX from Joe Wright’s film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice ( watch the scene here on YouTube here ) starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennett and Matthew MacFadyen as Mr. Darcy. They talk about how this is the sexiest non-sexual scene in the world, thank you female...

The alphabet is awesome. In this episode, the Collective discuss letters. This is a totally normal question. As is getting excited by letters.

Ria and Ada get back together to discuss Dickinson season two. Find Ria @riacarrogan on Instagram Find Ada @aa_mccartney on Instagram and visit her website: https://aa-mccartney.medium.com/

More of Swanee's Work: https://caswanee.wordpress.com   Order Valkyrie Poetics: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1267708843/valkyrie-poetics-85x55-chapbook-by    Connect with Swanee on Discord: Swantares#8308 Heathen Women United - http://heathenwomenunited.org/ Diane di Prima inspiration from this recording in the Naropa University Archive: http://archives.naropa.edu/digital/collection/p16621coll1/id...

Erica Vital-Lazare is a professor of creative writing and Marginalized Voices in Dystopian Literature at the College of Southern Nevada. As a recipient of grants and awards from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Hilliard Endowment, and the Nevada Arts Council, she is co-producer of the photo-narrative installation Obsidian & Neon: Building Bla...

Alyson and Anjali Bhimani (actress from Ms. Marvel on Disney+, voice of Symmetra from Overwatch and Rampart from Apex Legends ) talk about a scene from The Newsroom (watch the scene here on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wELqR2F5KjA ) starring Emily Mortimer as Mac and Olivia Munn as Sloane. They talk about how not every important scene between two women needs to pass the Bechdel Test and...

The first episode for Literature for Life has Jess talking with junior doctor Krista Bose about the play Death and the King’s Horsemen. We talk about death, tradition, the patriarchy and why learning about cultures that are not your own is so important. We also talk about Krista’s experience as a cancer patient, which she blogs about beautifully on Instagram.  Follow Krista: @squashingmysarcoma Fo...

Martha Engber lives an exciting double life as a fitness guru by day and author by night. Her creativity is tied to movement, the reason she unintentionally extended her youth activities into adulthood by becoming a fitness instructor the day she graduated from journalism school at the University of Missouri - Columbia. With over 30 years in the fitness industry as a teacher and trainer, she’s see...

Ria asks: "When you were a kid did you add sugar to every cereal you ate, if so, which sugar?". The gang unexpectedly segue into a discussion about alcohol and alcopops. That's the beauty of Ria's questions. Ria asks a lot of questions. Kevin made them into a website. The Femme on Collective answer one of Ria's questions every month. This episode they discuss the worst textures they have eaten. Wh...

Order Red Memory: https://amzn.to/3iLd7Yh Preorder What Bird Are You: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what-bird-are-you-by-amy-bobeda/   Find More of Amy's Work @ http://amyglenbobeda.com "Mama Cockroach I Love You" by Fiona Benson: https://poems.com/poem/mama-cockroach-i-love-you/   Close Readings Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-readings/id1657024670 Beforiegner Tr...

Alyson and Jen Prince (independent film producer and director) talk about the first sex scene in “Don’t Worry Darling” starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles and directed by Olivia Wilde. They talk about all the noise surrounding the movie, the sex scenes and how the scene worked or didn’t work for them vis a vis their own experiences and within the larger narrative. As women filmmakers, Alyson a...

Find out about Ada's amazing show, Poetry Theatre.

Tonya speaks Active Activism with Artistic Director Sarah O'Connell Sarah's Twitter and Instagram: @eatmoreart - Eat More Art Website: https://www.eatmoreartvegas.com/ Tonya's Twitter and Instagram: @Tonya Todd - Tonya's website: www.mstonyatodd.com Music: Turning on the Lights by Blue Dot Sessions