Living While Feminist

Welcome back to Season 4 of Living While Feminist! Thank you for tuning in. Don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and share! Today on the podcast I’m talking with feminist literary scholar and award-winning author, Dr Barbara Boswell. Barbara is the Head of the English Department at the University of Cape Town. She has taught gender studies and African women’s literature at the University of Vir...

What you can expect in Season 4 and some exciting news!

Every episode I've asked feminists to recommend books that have inspired their feminism. Now you can listen to all of those recommendations in one go, and make your winter reading order from your local book store. 

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Ananda Morris Paver. Ananda is an editor in the edutech industry, where her role focuses on pedagogical quality and development. She holds an MA in English and American Literature from the University of Kent with research interests spanning representations of gender and the body in popular culture, specifically in horror and fantasy narratives of the late 20th...

Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Michelle Edwards. Michelle is a writer and the editor-in-chief of the PR and Content Marketing team at Showmax. She graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism in 2005. After that she began her journeys around the world, living in Taiwan, the UK, South Africa and Zambia. Writing has always been a part of Michelle’s life and career. She has worked at an indie book...

Gabriella is a writer and filmmaker from Cape Town. Traversing art and journalism, she is interested in telling stories about the human condition. Her website includes several examples of these – a documentary about a prosthetic leg maker, a short documentary on the artist Amy Ayanda, and a PSA about child trafficking. Gabriella has worked as an arts writer for the online publication Between 10 an...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with writer Arja Salafranca. Arja Salafranca has published three collections of poetry, A Life Stripped of Illusions (1995), which received the Sanlam Award for poetry, The Fire in which we Burn (2000 ) ; and Beyond Touch (2015) which was a co-winner of the SALA Awards. Her fiction has been published online, in anthologies and journals, and is collected in her debu...

Jarred Thompson is a queer researcher and academic whose poetry, fiction and non-fiction has been published in various journals, notably the Johannesburg Review of Books, The Gerald Kraak Award Anthology Volume 3 and ImageOutWrite Anthology. He recently won the inaugural 2020 Afritondo Short Story Award.  Jarred’s piece in Living While Feminist is called ‘The social dynamics of penetration’ a...

Anelile Dlamini – Gibixego is a Pietermaritzburg-born author, mother and scientist. Anelile completed a Bachelor of Science in microbiology and cellular biology in 2011 from the University of Kwa Zulu Natal and an Honours degree in environmental science at North-West University in 2017. In her day time, she is a researcher and environmental activist. Since moving to Johannesburg in 2015, she has p...

Today on the podcast I speak to to Alice Draper. Alice is a freelance writer and editor currently based in Nottingham Road, KwaZulu-Natal. She finished studying a Bachelor of Journalism at Rhodes University in 2019 and has had the fun job of trying to cultivate a career during a global pandemic. Right now, most of her time is spent on copywriting work with a few editing projects. She's also trying...

Nobantu Shabangu is a gender non-conforming South African writer of plays, poems, short stories and essays. They started writing when they were nine years old, and at eighteen they won a national essay competition on the cruelty of farm animals. This was the first of many prizes including Leopard’s Leap 2018 Message on a Bottle writing competition, and the January (2019) Igby Essay Prize on Kahala...

The season finale is SHORT, but SO amazing! Today on the podcast I’m talking with Naledi Maponopono. Naledi is a grade 4 to 12 isiXhosa teacher at Reddam House Atlantic Seaboard. She is also a lecturer at the South African College of Applied Psychology. She’s the Deputy Provincial Secretary of the Young Communist League of South Africa in the Western Cape, and the director of her own company -- In...

Today on the podcast I talk with with Helené Prinsloo about fitness, fat phobia, and feminist freedom. Helené works in publishing, promoting fiction and nonfiction for NB Publishers. She is a ‘professional bookworm’ and she has been active in the book industry for eight years helping writers tell and promote their stories. She is originally from Queenstown in the Eastern Cape but now lives in Sea...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Neoka Naidoo. Neoka always wanted someone to do something about the issues that plague our society, then she realised she was somebody, and got straight to work. In 2014 she was selected as the Leadership Development Fellow in South Africa for the Climate Action Network International working on international climate change policy and civil society coordination...

M.A. Warden is a philosophy lecturer, aspiring writer and artist. Marc has their own YouTube Channel, called Indecent, where they discuss issues around philosophy, politics, gender and queer studies, and whatever else tickles their fancy. They spend most of their time engaged in some or the other creative endeavour, some of which we’ll get to talk about today. Marc’s piece in Living While Feminist...

Today's episode touches on so many topics - dating while feminist, male tears, making feminist art, democratising digital design, and the importance of honest conversation.  Dr Anja "Nanna" Venter is an ‘artstronaut’ working at the intersections of art, culture, and technology. Find her on Instagram, here https://www.instagram.com/nannaventer/ She has a degree in visual communication, a Maste...

Today I’m excited to be talking to Dela Gwala. Dela Gwala is a full-time feminist, activist writer, reluctant spiritualist, and hard truths enthusiast. She holds a Master’s degree in Gender studies from the SOAS University of London and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. She has written for the IOL news website, Cape Argus newspaper, New Frame and Mahala magazine. Her...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Dawn Garisch – a true contemporary maverick. Dawn is a medical doctor and a published writer. She has had seven novels, a collection of poetry, short stories, a non-fiction work and a memoir published. She has had five plays and short film produced, and has written for television. Three of her novels have been published in the UK. This publishing journey has n...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Zangose Tembo. Zangose works in the field of social justice. For the past seven years she’s worked and volunteered for notable social justice/impact organizations including One Young World, Population Council and the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP). In 2016, she founded The Best of Africa an online media platform that promotes freedom of speech throu...

Today on the podcast I talk to Juanita De Villiers. Juanita is a collector of hobbies and special interests, and a Masters candidate at the University of Cape Town where her thesis focuses on contemporary gothic literature. Juanita is a massive horror enthusiast, in the process of starting a horror podcast and has a horror Instagram account already. She is currently working on a chapter about auti...

Today on the podcast I’m talking to Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika. Relebone is a who is a Tzaneen-born, Makhanda-bred, Joburg-buttered writer. She describes herself as the awkward girl who brings a book to a party but dreams of opening the dance circle. Relebone won the Blackbird Books / Casa Lorde residency in 2019. She was the social media manager for the Abantu Book festival in 2018, and works as...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Sam Beckbessinger. Sam is the bestselling author of Manage Your Money Like a Fucking Grownup – a guide to help you take control of your money so you can take control of your life.  As her website says “ You’re going to earn plenty of money over your lifetime. Are you going to waste it on stupid crap that doesn’t make you happy, or let it buy your freedom...

Today on the podcast I talk to Helen Moffett about reproductive justice, medical misogyny, and reimagining stories. Helen Moffett is an author, editor, academic and activist. Her publications include university textbooks, a treasury of landscape writings ( Lovely Beyond Any Singing ), a cricket book (with Tim Noakes and the late Bob Woolmer), an animal charity anthology ( Stray , with Diane Awerbu...

Today on the podcast I’m talking with Owethu Makhathini . Owethu is an entrepreneur, writer and womanist. As a social media specialist, strategist and trend forecaster in the advertising industry her work has helped to build digital literacy in that field. Part of this was achieved by founding her creative consultancy - Makhathini Media. Owethu is also a freelance writer and public speaker – in ot...

Srila Roy is associate professor of sociology and heads development studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the author of the book, Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement (Oxford, 2012), editor of New South Asian Feminisms (Zed, 2012) and co-editor of New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualising Hegemony and Resistance in C...