Latest Femnism Podcast Episodes

Nothing Happens Unless You Press the Button

Mothers of Invention - February 19, 2019 03:40 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
In our first episode back, Mary & Maeve recap the groundbreaking climate events of 2018. They meet our youngest mother yet, 13 year old activist and organizer, Alexandria Villasenor, on why she’s spending every Friday in a sleeping bag at the gates of the UN. Professor Pauline Dube talks to us a...

We Want a Colour TV!

Mothers of Invention - September 30, 2018 17:19 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
This episode comes to you direct from New York City where Maeve lives and Mary was attending Climate Week. Governments, diplomates, business leaders and climate change gathered to assess progress and push for solutions to avert the climate crisis and deliver on the goals of the Paris Agreement. ...

Against the Grain

Mothers of Invention - September 17, 2018 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
This episode serves up an all-you-can-eat investigation into food and its connection to climate. We meet Mothers of Invention in India, Nigeria and the US who are revolutionising the way we understand, protect, grow, and cook food around the world. Mary and Maeve learn that cows must not be giv...

BONUS: When Mary met Gina

Mothers of Invention - September 12, 2018 11:07 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
Mary Robinson sits on a park bench with Gina McCarthy, ex-head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US under President Obama. They watch the ducks and talk turkey about how America’s environmental protections can survive the Trump administration. Overheard by Elliot Stoller.

Under the Weather

Mothers of Invention - September 03, 2018 00:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
Mary and Maeve learn how all of our access to the very basics - clean air, clean water, livable temperatures - are at risk as well as the mental health implications of the destruction of the natural world. We meet a Black Lives Matter activist who believes that black neighbourhoods would be safe...

BONUS: The Greatest Taxi Driver in New York

Mothers of Invention - August 30, 2018 18:15 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
Taking into account Uber and Lyft there's now around 60,000 cabs in New York City — but Maeve thinks she's found the very best of them who's on a mission to effect change while on the move...

Taking Over

Mothers of Invention - August 20, 2018 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
This week Mary and Maeve turn up the volume on the women who are helping us consciously-uncouple from our toxic relationship with single-use plastic, a material created to be used for mere minutes but designed to last for thousands of years.   This week’s mothers of invention are Judi Wakhung...

BONUS: Hello, Maeve Calling

Mothers of Invention - August 12, 2018 23:30 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
True to her word, Maeve has decided to divest her own personal savings. Here’s the phone call when she lets her bank know...

The White Man Stole the Weather

Mothers of Invention - August 05, 2018 23:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
Mary and Maeve are talking about money, money.   Fighting climate change might be a moral necessity but women are learning to hit vested interests where it hurts the most, in the pocket. They hear from South Africa where the anti-apartheid movement demonstrated the power of the boycott in the 80...

All Rise

Mothers of Invention - July 22, 2018 23:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
  Mary and Maeve are laying down the law. Three years ago, 886 ordinary Dutch citizens sued their government over climate change... and won. Tessa Khan, a Bangladeshi-Australian lawyer is in the studio to talk new legal strategies for climate action. Her organisation is currently helping to sue...

BONUS: What the Actual Paris?!

Mothers of Invention - July 22, 2018 23:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
Before Maeve and Mary’s new podcast series can truly begin, Maeve’s got a confession to make; she doesn’t really, properly, understand what the Paris Climate Agreement actually is.   Luckily her co-host, the former Irish President, is more than happy to take her to school.   Let Maeve’s pain be ...

Introducing Mothers of Invention - Launching 23rd July

Mothers of Invention - July 16, 2018 17:35 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 230 ratings
Climate change is a man-made problem with a feminist solution! Join former Irish President Mary Robinson and comedian Maeve Higgins in this uplifting and fascinating new podcast, and meet a host of game-changing women fighting to save all our lives.  Launching on Monday 23rd July, across six en...