Vanity Project

In this Patreon exclusive Vanity Project use Poor Things (2023) to finally talk about the big topics. Sure, Lanthimos’ new film might be about a Frankensteinian pedophilia problem, but Charles and Laura want to talk about the Ball Drop. While we’re still in a festive mood from New Years we’re celebrating joyful semen! Poor Things helps us to ask, is Fully Automated Luxury Communism compatible with...

Vanity Project is back. And this time they are on the loose! The team at Beare Park gave the girls special media access to cover the first ever fashion show at Elizabeth Bay's most beautiful pleasure playground! As they retrace their steps through the notorious beat, the girls are forced to remember what really took place on NYE. They soon find themselves debating the moral pertinence of fur a...

It’s no secret Vanity Project are obsessed with Sydney and this week, they are fortunate enough to sit down with legendary performance artist Sydney Jarrett of Post Poems Collective. Their reappearance is a long time coming, and this time we’re here to say: Butch Is Not A Dirty Word! They trace a history of deep and abiding camaraderie, from the working class history of Stone Butch Blues, to activ...

Vanity Project’s new treatise is as follows: if you are thinking about giving a standing ovation, vomit. If you are a little too drunk, vomit. Do you believe in bulimia? Vomit. Are you an exhibitionist looking for a new act? Get vomited on. That’s what’s known in these parts as a Roman Shower! We’ve done piss, we’ve done smell, and this time we’re espousing an abject-driven cultural study with a n...

"What turns you on?" Laura asks Charles. "Oh my god...so much!" There is a spectre haunting the consciousness of gay people and this week the girls are speculating about the size of that spectre. In this Patreon exclusive, Vanity Project takes on Troye Sivan’s new album, Something To Give Each Other.  The album is surprisingly dense with provocation. Rush, the song about amyl-i...

Laura and Charles sit down with new friend, writer, and illustrator, Indigo Bailey (recently published in Kill Your Darlings, Island Magazine, and editor of Voiceworks) for the latest instalment of our long tradition of Diva Double Features. This time we take aim at one-miss Juliette Binoche. The latest, but not last, of this fabulous cohort of VP-adored women, is gently and thoroughly celebrated...

Vanity Project is moving to fortnightly paywalled content. Pledge allegiance to the struggle:  ⁠https://www.patreon.com/vanity_project International Lesbian Day may have passed us by, but we did watch the movie Bottoms (2023), and even still no one wants to say The L Word. They don’t even say the ‘b’ word... We finally thank Janey Jacke for letting us talk about ‘topping and bottoming’, and what i...

Between us down there Vanity Project is joined by a real-life Angel. This is the Spring Summer 24 crescendo, and we’re finishing with one night in Paris. Angel Robertson offers insight into the exquisite pain of designing, and the slightly less exquisite agony of a bug infestation in the beds of the city of love.  We talk Balenciaga and being someone else, Vaquera and doing yourself, and Rick Owen...

Vanity Project is moving to fortnightly paywalled content. Pledge allegiance to the struggle:  https://www.patreon.com/vanity_project The girls are back with bestie-of-the-pod Carmencita! Like a hard cock, they reluctantly rise to the occasion and continue to talk about fashion week in Milan. Over a couple of wines, the girls are suddenly seduced by slippery gossip, desperately derailing what is u...

Australia's very own Tr*nny and Susannah are back behind the mic reporting on the inner-beauty pageant that is London Fashion Week. They discuss the relevance of London and the UK as a fashion metropole for global fashions. God only knows why FKA Twigs and Cara Delevigne are raising consciousness (kissing) on the West End at Vogue World! If 4 slim people equals two multi-racial models then how...

To paraphrase Collina Strada, “Everything sucks. We’re all doomed. The world’s on fire, but we’re doing another episode about fashion shows because that’s what we know how to do”. Strap in for the first episode of four weeks of epic fashion week coverage and conversation recorded on the anniversary of 9/11. Remember, every flight starts on a runway... This week, the girls discuss seatbelts and saf...

After a few too many trips to Melbourne, Laura and Charles ask one another "Are you having fun down there?" The girls inflame the age-old rivalry between the two Australian cities, insisting that nobody in Naarm is getting any. Sydney is the city of sex and Vanity Project Knows Good Sex. This episode is no limits! Topping and bottoming! Undress! Dental dams and dog dongs! Feel the rush a...

Charles and Laura sit down with Gertrude Studio artist and man who wears many hats, Francis Carmody, in a new commission for un Extended. They dive deep into Francis' practice and reveal the man behind the alibi. Francis' compulsion to curiosity suits Vanity Project just fine, after all, we have podcasted from far more precarious places! We follow Francis' deep curiosity into dentist a...

Is there anything sexy about an Amazon Prime made-for-streaming adaptation of a Young Adult novel? And what if it was an independent Arthouse film about the Republic of France topping the monarchy of The Netherlands? This is the definitive ruling on the latest homonationalist propaganda movie 'Red, White, and Royal Blue' (2023). This is Vanity Project at its finest. We cover topping, botto...

This week, the girls have invited the gorgeous dancer and writer Belle Beasley to chat about the infamous, and now arguably well-loved Showgirls (1995). Vanity Project says, Showgirls won the culture war! Fix yourself a plate of doggie chow and enjoy this hour-long lap dance. Hide your pearls boys and girls, jewels are a killer in this industry! We ask all the difficult questions, which Showgirls...

For this tell-all interview, Laura and Charles join the one and only Joan Rivers under the covers for one last episode of her online mini-series 'In Bed with Joan'. And because the girls are such generous power-bottoms, they've allowed their extra-special guest the chance to interview them! R.I.P. Joan, you would've hated Vanity Project.

Tentatively, Laura asks Charles, “…did you… like dolls?” It’s another transexually charged podcast. We have returned from the only city to cut off its own Penis-Tower, Newcastle, to give our definitive reading of the Barbie movie.  Charles pronounces “Baudrillard” properly, and reads an excerpt of his upcoming text “Good For Drag”, which is actually about being Birkenstock-pilled, and Laura womans...

In the grand tradition of actress studies and diva-worship, the girls are back with another very special Double Feature Pod. This time, they are talking about the cinematic exploits and successive slidings of pleasure as depicted by one miss Isabelle Huppert. Laura and Charles watch The Piano Teacher (2001) and Ma Mère (2004) so that you don't have to! They discuss the problématiques of the tw...

Charles and Laura are back in the closet [recording studio] to talk about transgender ideation [crossdressing fantasy]. We giggle nervously while we speak very, very openly about the ways we love and adore trans people, culture, aesthetics and ideology.  Through Viscose’s newest issue “trans”, the movie Dressed To Kill (1980), and the documentary Disclosure (2020), we ask: is there an internationa...

Finally, it’s just us girls, and Charles, just off the plane from Tokyo, is bursting with secrets. One listener asks “Charles, can I ask you a personal question? …What’s the craziest thing you did on your holiday?”  This week we’re aligning our heart, pussy, and boner chakras the old-fashioned way: in the bathhouse, where we make a return to form. That form? Hard-ons, naturally. Shall I compare th...

While Charles enjoys a writer’s strike of sorts on holiday in Tokyo, Laura sits down with Drew in the studio to talk everything art and AI. Laura and Drew, yes, probably could have just created an AI Charles to join them, but isn’t there something nice about a human touch?  We talk creativity and labour, the limits of censorship in image- and text-generating software, the limitations of the form,...

The girls are back on the mic after their triumphant second birthday party on June 7th! For those of you that have been living under a rock, Vanity Project is now officially two years old and they’re finally putting on their big girl panties! This week, Laura and Charles recap the night that was and share their sensuous collaborative Birthday-Suit text once again for your consideration (and pleasu...

This week, for the fifth and final VPT2 interview, the girls are joined by the one and only Miski! Vanity Project: Terrible Twos is just one sleep away! It’s so close we can taste it! This is a masterclass in talking courtesy of #voicesbymiski. The girls chitchat about birthdays, stand-up, comedy, funny ha-ha jokes, playing-it-straight, writing as practice, and so-called apophenia! Here come the d...

This week the girls sit down with artist, poet, and proud horse girl Elisabeth Sulich for the fourth installment of VPT2 interviews in the lead-up to June 7th! They wax lyrical about mother's milk and arrive back at the platitude that god is a woman after all. And so they are left asking the brave questions: does god have traction alopecia? Does she listen to Ariana Grande music on purpose? Wa...

We are graced with HRH, the People’s Princess, proprietor of Sugondèse Film Festival, and proud owner of Triple F tits, Kate McGuinness. In the third of our series of EXCLUSIVE interviews we have the distinct pleasure of sitting across from another cofa alum, an ex-performance artist and comedienne on her artworld journey to and from seriousness, humour, and Parramatta. We discuss Kate’s love for...