The Scarlet Frequency

In this episode of Red Tent Storytellers, hosts Peeja and Hazel Moon Audio welcome Amy E. Sousa (Known Heretic) for a conversation about intuition, resilience, and the life-changing power of trusting yourself. Long before she became a public voice challenging gender ideology, Amy was a storyteller searching for deeper truths. Through theatre, psychology, mythology, motherhood, illness, and advocac...

This episode of Red Tent Storytellers begins high in the mountains of Bolivia and stretches across Olympic stadiums, Islamic republics, hidden women’s spaces, and the growing global battle over truth itself. Hosted by Peeja and Hazel Moon Audio , this conversation with Coach Linda Blade is not simply about sport. It is about what happens when a woman spends an entire lifetime refusing to shrink he...

Imagine leaving a war-torn country for freedom in the West. Then imagine having your child taken from you by CPS and gender ideology. You can stop imagining; this is happening. This episode of Red Tent Storytellers holds a story that does not resolve cleanly. It exposes something far more difficult: what it means to fight when the system itself becomes the force you are fighting against. Ours host...

Skylar did not find art as a hobby. She found it as a lifeline. Content Note: This episode includes strong language and discusses mental health, trauma, and survival. Listener discretion is advised. In this episode of Red Tent Storyteller , Peeja and Hazel Moon Audio sit with Skylar Gwynn as she traces the moment everything shifted. Deep depression. Not functioning. A life narrowing fast. And then...

Cynthia Breheny does not speak from distance. She speaks from inside the life she survived. In this episode of Red Tent Storyteller , Peeja and Hazel Moon Audio sit with Cynthia as she traces a childhood shaped by instability, fear, and silence, and the path that led her to reclaim her voice through writing, art, and activism. From a low-income upbringing marked by chaos to navigating identity, tr...

Andreia Nobre speaks from a place most people never have to name out loud. In this episode of Red Tent Storyteller , Peeja and Hazel Moon Audio sit with Andreia as she reads from her work and reflects on a life shaped by survival, motherhood, and the long consequences of choices that were never truly hers to make. Her story moves through abuse, generational hardship, and the reality of becoming a...

Jennifer Brown, also known as Redhead Ranting™ on X , opens this conversation exactly where she stands: in truth, not agreement. Peeja and Nat La Pirate sitting in for Hazel Moon Audio, sit down with Jenn to trace the through-line of a woman who has always written, always observed, and ultimately chose to speak in her own voice without waiting for permission. From childhood journals to self-publis...

This archival episode of North American Angst turns its focus to another arena where women are being told to surrender quietly: sport. Peeja , Emmi , and Carol bring together athletes and advocates who have spent their lives inside competitive sport, only to watch policies reshape women’s categories in ways they say undermine fairness and opportunity. Coach and author Linda Blade and former NCAA c...

This archival episode of North American Angst opens a door most people never look behind. Peeja & Carol, hosts of N.A.A., bring together women who have lived the reality of incarceration and emerged determined to speak. Heather Mason and Amy Ichikawa , both formerly imprisoned, recount what happens inside women’s prisons when policy abandons biological reality. Their testimony moves from Canad...

This episode is a reckoning. In a raw, unflinching conversation, the ladies of North American Angst sit down with Lisa Bildy , a Canadian constitutional lawyer and Executive Director of the Free Speech Union Canada , to confront the slow erosion of free expression across professional life in Canada. What begins as her personal story — a trial lawyer turned homeschooling mother turned reluctant dis...

On this Red Tent Storyteller episode, we sit down with willow-weaver, grief-walker, and audio alchemist Hazel Moon Audio to trace the winding path from London suburbs to wild Hebridean shores — and from women’s refuge work to bringing other women’s stories to life in her own voice. Hazel shares how a girl who “didn’t fit” in a sporty family grew into a woman who chose books, music, radical feminis...

Today, we’re stepping into a conversation every one of us has brushed up against—some of us bruised, some of us bitten, some of us still crawling back from the dark. We’re talking about fear … the real kind. The kind that lives under the ribs. The kind that swallows children whole and follows adults into every room. Our guest today—writer, illustrator, and truth-teller Cynthia Breheny —has written...

When Hazel Moon steps behind the microphone, she is not simply “recording an audiobook”—she is midwifing a story into sound. In this article, read aloud in her own voice, Hazel Moon reveals the hidden labor, the intimate rituals, and the reverence that shape every finished audiobook. She brings listeners into the quiet sanctum of her work: the pre-dawn script study, the pronunciation hunts, the em...

In this piercing and tender conversation, author felicia klingenberg joins The Red Tent Storytellers to read from her memoir a little bit of god — a haunting chronicle of survival, silence, and self-discovery. From the ashes of childhood trauma to the light of creative defiance, Felicia’s words remind us that truth-telling is sacred work, and women’s stories are revolutions in themselves. Listen,...

In this wickedly funny and disarmingly honest episode of The Scarlet Frequency , The Tasty Terf takes us on a nostalgic romp through her lifelong love affair with bread and cheese — two ride-or-dies who eventually turned into dietary double agents. It’s a story of childhood comfort, adult betrayal, and the bittersweet grief of giving up the foods that once felt like home. From Velveeta sandwiches...

In this charged and luminous episode of Red Tent Storytellers , filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar joins Peeja Blackbird and Nat La Pirate for a conversation that unfolds like a manifesto in motion — equal parts grief, grit, and gallows humor. From her childhood in patriarchal India to her evolution as one of the fiercest feminist documentarians of our time, Vaishnavi takes us through the making of Behind...

When a woman like Kara Dansky speaks, the air sharpens. In this intimate and unflinching episode of The Red Tent Storyteller , Kara—lawyer, author, and unapologetic defender of women’s sex-based rights—lays down her journey from idealistic public defender to battle-hardened feminist warrior. From her working-class upbringing in Ohio to the halls of Johns Hopkins and the ACLU, Kara’s story is one o...

· Written by Peeja Blackbird · Read by Hazel Moon Audio · In this hauntingly beautiful first episode of The Crimson Frequency — The Red Tent Collective’s new sonic archive — writer Peeja Blackbird invites us into the ache and ritual of October. It’s the month when grief curls up beside us in soft knits and cold air, when memory refuses to stay buried, and when the body remembers what the mind trie...