Living While Feminist

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Lenina Rassool.   Lenina is the producer and presenter of The Womxn Show , a weekly TV show produced by Cape Town TV that focuses on gender-based violence and gender justice. The show launched in 2019 and since then has aired over 100 episodes – an incredible achievement.   For listeners who want to go and check it out, you can watch it on Cape Town TV or DSTV...

Nechama Brodie is no stranger to the Living While Feminist podcast. We spoke in 2021 for Season 4, so if you haven’t listened to that episode please do go back and find it now.   Nechama Brodie is an absolute polymath – multi-media journalist, author, senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Journalism and Media Studies, musician, singer, martial artist. She has turned he...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Derilene Marco.   Derilene is a creative scholar who holds a Senior Lecturer position in Media Studies at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dee’s research pivots around social and cultural practices and experiences of the everyday, particularly in relation to mothering identities, person-making and caregiving as labour/ work. She has written on ap...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Athambile Masola.   Athambile is a writer, researcher and an award-winning poet based in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her debut collection of poetry is written in isiXhosa, Ilifa (Uhlanga Press, 2021). She is the co-author of the children’s history book series, Imbokodo: Women who shape us (Jacana, 2022), with Dr Xolisa...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Sam Beckbessinger . I had the pleasure of talking to Sam in December 2020 for Season 1 about How to Manage your Money like a Fucking Grown-up , and we talked all things money from a feminist perspective. So, if you haven’t yet listened to that episode, go back, and download it now.   Since I last spoke to Sam her writing career has gone from strength to streng...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Rumbi Goredema Görgens. Rumbi is a Zimbabwean-born South African-based feminist author and activist. Her writing has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine , Vela Magazine , and on FeministsSA.com and MyFirstTimeSA.com. She has worked with various South African civil society organisations, and her current day job is at Embrace , a movement dedicated to making mothe...

A quick update to say that my real mom life has got in the way of recording and sharing this week's episode. It'll be out later this week.

Today on the podcast I’ll be speaking with Lauren Beukes. Lauren  is the award-winning author of six novels, a collection of short stories, a pop history about South African women, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages. Her novel, The Shining Girls, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around is now a major...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Megan Ross. Megan is a writer, creative consultant and journalist. She is the author of Milk Fever (published by uHlanga Press in 2018) which is a collection of poetry. In Milk Fever Megan writes about the uneasy truths of unexpected motherhood and all its emotional detritus. It explores the choices and misadventures of young womanhood, centering the personal...

Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Sarah Lotz. Sarah was born in the UK, lived in Paris, Israel and spent 20 years in Cape Town. She returned to the UK 5 years ago and is currently living on the Welsh borderlands. She’s an ex mural artist, now lucky enough to be a full time screenwriter and novelist. Sarah has published 20 novels that have been translated into over 25 languages. She’s done thi...

Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Sara-Jayne Makwala King. Sara-Jayne is an award winning radio presenter, best-selling author, journalist, and public speaker whose career spans two decades and four continents. She has an LLB honours degree from the University of Greenwich and a Masters in Journalism from Canterbury University. Her first book Killing Karoline , published in 2017, was shortlis...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Joy Watson. Joy is a feminist researcher and writer who specialises in analysing public policy and service delivery, as well as tracking funding flows from the perspective of building social equity. She has many years of experience in developing feminist responses to public policy and has worked on research Initiatives in South Africa as well as internationall...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Yewande Omotoso. Yewande is an architect, with a masters in creative writing from the University of Cape Town. Her debut novel ‘Bomboy’ (2011 Modjaji Books), won the South African Literary Award First Time Author Prize. Her short stories include ‘How About The Children’ (Kalahari Review), ‘Things Are Hard’ (2012 Caine Prize Anthology), ‘Fish’ (The Moth Literar...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Wessel Van Den Berg. Wessel is the father of two young children aged 6 and 8, and he sees fatherhood as his main job. In his spare time, his curiosity about men and care has led him to work as a kindergarten teacher, counsellor, activist, and researcher. He works at Sonke Gender Justice and in this capacity has contributed to the establishment of the MenCare G...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah. Nana is the author of The Sex Lives of African Women , which Publishers Weekly described as “an astonishing report on the quest for sexual liberation” in their starred review. It was also listed by The Economist as a best book of the year. She is also co-founder of Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women , a website, podcast and fe...

Season 5 of Living While Feminist will be launching this August on the theme Parenting While Feminist! So looking forward to these conversations.

Take care of yourselves!

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Nyx McLean. Nyx McLean is a trans non-binary queer South African, they use the pronouns they/them. Nyx is an academic who specialises in LGBTIAQ+ identities and communities, and their use of digital technology to form publics and counter-publics to resist the status quo. Nyx McLean is a Research Associate affiliated with the School of Journalism and Media Stud...

Today on the podcast I have the absolute pleasure of talking again to Tiffany Kagure Mugo. Tiff was the very first guest on Living While Feminist, talking about her book Quirky Quick Guide to having great sex, cancel culture, and everything in between. Since then Tiff has given us a new collection, with her co compiler Kim Windvogel, called Touch: Sex Sexulaity and Sensuality. It came out this yea...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Ziyanda Stuurman. Ziyanda is a social policy, political science, and international relations graduate who currently works as a social science researcher based in Cape Town. She’s a recipient of both the Chevening and Fulbright scholarships and hold advanced degrees in Conflict, Security and Development Studies from Sussex University, and in International Devel...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Dr Nechama Brodie. Nechama has worked as a multi-media journalist, editor, producer and publisher for nearly twenty-five years. During this time she has dodged the secret police in Burma , explored tunnels underneath Johannesburg , gotten dusty at rock festivals, and reported on the myth of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa. Nechama’s journalistic work has appe...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Terry-Ann Adams. Terry-Ann is a writer and commentator from Johannesburg. They have an honours in history from the University of Pretoria where she focused on the disability rights movement in South Africa and Disability Representation in American Film. They has spoken and written on ableism and feminism. In 2020 Terry-Ann published their debut novel, Those Wh...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with South Africa’s self-appointed Minister of Menstruation, Candice Chirwa. Candice is a thought leader with an avid interest in gender and youth issues in South Africa. She specialises in menstrual education for young people and brings #eduliftment with her award-winning NGO, QRATE. Candice is the Editor of the Book – The Perils of Patriarchy, which sheds light o...

Today on the podcast I’m speaking to Belinda Mountain. Belinda studied a business Science degree but found that her love of words led her straight into working in the world of book publishing as a graduate, and then she spent around eight years working in publishing in both the UK and South Africa. In 2010, Belinda had a daughter, in the same year that her mother died from a brain tumour - and soo...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Gugulethu Mhlungu. As a writer, broadcaster and editor, Gugu is a respected voice in South Africa’s media space. In her role as contributing editor for Global Citizen she’s helping to advance the organisation’s vision of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and as editor-in-chief of Careers magazine she’s driving the narrative around young people’s welfare. Gugu is...