Latest Funny women Podcast Episodes
Magical Overthinking
Unladylike - April 09, 2024 17:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhat do vision boards and Princess Diana conspiracy theories have in common? They both rely on a kind of magical thinking called proportionality bias. It's one of many cognitive biases that returning guest Amanda Montell connects to all the woo-woo and delulu going around these days. From the sun...
The Stay-at-Home Girlfriend Mirage
Unladylike - April 07, 2024 04:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon preview** A labor-free life of feminine leisure, and/or the ultimate self-care con? The SAHGs (stay-at-home girlfriends) of TikTok have been described as a manifestation of Gen Z, anti-girlboss culture. Except, they’re still getting paid to work!! To hear the full, ad-fre...
Mean Girl Feminism
Unladylike - April 02, 2024 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhat's the difference between a white feminist and a mean girl? Not so much, as Kim Hong Nguyen explains this episode. From colonial era white women to TERFs on main today, mean girl feminism is a new term for an old problem that's all show, no go and oblivious to racialized white feminisms. We a...
When a Butch Loves a Femme
Unladylike - March 26, 2024 15:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsAre butch-femme roles in queer relationships just recycling the same old hetero his 'n' hers gender boxes? What happens when toxic masculinity invades queer relationships and spaces? In an Unladylike FIRST, we're re-asking and re-answering a listener advice request–and with empathetic expertise f...
UNCUT GEMS: Body Hair with Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa (TEASER)
Unladylike - March 24, 2024 04:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon teaser** With spring a few days away, tis the season to talk BODY HAIR! But my 2019 interview with spoken word artist and performer Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa isn't the same old to-shave-or-not-to-shave body hair binary. Sukhjit is a practicing Sikh, and letting it all grow (aka...
Introducing Stars and Stars with Isa
Unladylike - March 21, 2024 04:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsHave you ever wondered what the zodiac can reveal about your favorite artists? Then you have to listen to Stars and Stars with Isa, the podcast where we look to the stars above with the stars below. Every episode our charismatic, funny and insightful host and astrologer, Isa Nakazawa, sits down w...
The Cool Aunt
Unladylike - March 19, 2024 22:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsOf all the aunt tropes in pop culture–spinster aunts, sinister aunts, weird aunts, witchy aunts–why is The Cool Aunt so popular these days? More importantly, who is she really, beyond (alleged) disposible income and TikTok aesthetics? Los Angeles Times art and design columnist Carolina Miranda ap...
The Cool Mom
Unladylike - March 13, 2024 19:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsIt's not like a regular podcast episode. It's a cool episode. Right, Regina? Andi Mitchell and Sabrina Kohlberg from Pop Culture Moms take us on a pop cultural tour of The Cool Mom, from Mean Girls to Euphoria, and her defining qualities on screen. But as we also learn from her disregard for boun...
The People vs. Frozen Embryos (TEASER)
Unladylike - March 10, 2024 21:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWtf just happened with frozen embryos, fertility clinics and IVF in Alabama?? Get ready for the un-true crime, sci-fi Jesus saga of LePage v Center for Reproductive Medicine. As in, the case behind the Alabama state supreme court’s ruling that frozen embryos for IVF are “EXTRAUTERINE CHILDREN” in...
A Football League of Their Own
Unladylike - March 05, 2024 17:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsIn 1974, what had started as a sexist gimmick became the first and only (so far) professional women's football league in US history. It wasn't a feminist stunt, either. Sports writer Frankie de la Cretaz tells us the incredible - and incredibly queer - story of the National Women's Football Leagu...
BONUS: The Thing About Getting Engaged
You Can Tell Me Anything with Teresa Lee - February 29, 2024 07:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 115 ratingsThe Things with Titi & Jenyi Lee Titi and Jenyi are identical twins with unidentical thoughts. Titi, a comedian, and Jenyi, a musician, get together every week to talk about things. Episode 1 The Thing About Getting Engaged Identical twins Titi and Jenyi get into things, taking a deep dive ...
Is new Jezebel doomed to flop?
Unladylike - February 27, 2024 17:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsThe feminist blogosphere era officially ended last November when Jezebel, website and water cooler of millennial feminism, was shut down by its media overlords. But even though Jezebel was swiftly put on life support by Paste magazine, its long-term survival remains unclear partly due to the same...
Small Dick Energy
Unladylike - February 20, 2024 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhy is penis size and performance the go-to butt of the joke, especially when we're talking about shitty men? Is it punching up at misogyny, or just recycling bad material? Writer Mikala Jameson (Body Type) introduces America's Small Dick Joke Problem, interrogates the instinct to hit misogyny wh...
UNCUT GEMS: Cave Diving with Jill Heinerth (TEASER)
Unladylike - February 18, 2024 05:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon preview** Grab your snorkel masks and oxygen tanks, unladies! We're revisiting my 2019 interview with cave diver and underwater explorer Jill Heinerth (ep. 64: How to Dive Into Fear). She takes us along her path into the incredibly dangerous world of cave diving, how she ...
More Than Best Friends
Unladylike - February 13, 2024 18:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhat if society exalted the love and commitment of friendship as highly as that of marriage and biological family? How would our lives change if close friends were more empowered to be our til-death-do-us-part significant others? Journalist Rhaina Cohen (NPR, Embedded) talks to Cristen about the ...
Your Mama's Kitchen: Samin Nosrat
Unladylike - February 07, 2024 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsSharing an episode of another podcast we’re loving: Your Mama’s Kitchen, all about cuisine and culture, ingredients and identities, and the meals and memories that make us who we are. Every week, host Michele Norris talks to guests like Michelle Obama, Glennon Doyle, and José Andrés. They explor...
Care + Capitalism
Unladylike - February 06, 2024 17:06 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsIf care workers make all work possible, then why aren't they better taken care of? And what if that predominantly low-income women of color workforce would rather care for their own children and families? Answer: racial capitalism. Barnard historian Premilla Nadasen contexualizes today's multibil...
Her-Fault Divorce (TEASER)
Unladylike - February 04, 2024 05:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon preview** Did y'all know women initiate 70% of divorces in husband-wife marriages? Are no-fault divorce laws to blame?? Cristen digs through divorce rate stats, facts and an old LIFE magazine to help explain the paradoxical and persistent relationship between women and di...
MRKH Syndrome
Unladylike - January 30, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsAt 16 years old, Molly McGlynn discovered why she'd never had a period. Diagnosed with MRKH syndrome, Molly was born without a uterus, cervix and an underdeveloped vaginal canal. Blindsided, teenage Molly was then promptly tasked with "making" her own vagina - and advised to keep it all a secret....
The "Pretendian" Long Con (ENCORE)
Unladylike - January 23, 2024 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhat happens when someone who built their career on being Indigenous turns out to be ... a white lady? Award-winning writer and reporter Michelle Cyca shares how she came face to face with Indigenous identity fraud, why academia and the arts have a 'Pretendian' problem and what these scams means ...
UNCUT GEMS: Mormon Feminism with Kate Kelly
Unladylike - January 21, 2024 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon preview** With Real Housewives of Salt Lake City having a pop cultural moment, it's the perfect time for a reality check on women, gender and Mormonism. Listen to Cristen's uncut 2018 interview with Kate Kelly, who sent shockwaves through the Church of Jesus Christ of La...
Boy Moms & Girl Dads
Unladylike - January 17, 2024 20:01 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsSince when did parenting opposite-gender kids get branded as #BoyMoms and #GirlDads (not to be confused with "fathers of daughters")? Cristen unravels their origins and compares what these viral identities tell us about motherhood, masculinity and societal pressures to have at least "one of each....
Why NOT Kamala 2024?
Unladylike - January 09, 2024 19:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsReady or not, the 2024 presidential election is fast approaching. So why hasn't the Democratic Party pushed for President Biden step aside and run the Veep instead? And how come the even bigger question swirling around Kamala Harris is whether SHE'S the one who should step down? Follow Unladylike...
The Daily Mail - FOR HER!
Unladylike - December 19, 2023 05:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsThe invention of tabloids was both revolutionary and regressive for women, and it all goes back to The Daily Mail (yes, that Daily Mail with the book-length headlines and endless celeb photos). In this Unladies' Room bonus episode, Kristen Meinzer (How to Be Fine, The Daily Fail) regales us with ...
American Girl Dollcore
Unladylike - December 12, 2023 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsHow did a line of expensive, educational dolls overtake 90s girlhood? Historians and Dolls of Our Lives hosts Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney tell us the backstory of Pleasant Rowland inventing American Girl, the brand's uneasy relationship with feminism and Barbie, and why Molly et al remain i...
Debbie Patterson - Ableism In Theatre: An Open Conversation
Tits and Teeth Podcast - December 11, 2023 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsDebbie Patterson is our final guest speaker of the season! What better way to close the series than with this invigorating lecture where Debbie reminds us that by bringing disability into our practice, we open our practice to endless possibilities. This season, T+T Productions has collaborated w...
Pelvic Floored (Unladies' Room bonus)
Unladylike - December 05, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsThe pelvic floor is so much more than Samantha Jones' kegels and postpartum prolapse. In this Unladies' Room bonus episode, pelvic floor physical therapist Dr. Kara Strauss breaks down "the keystone of the body" (!!), its many functions and why we don't talk about it enough. Kara also guides Cris...
Stephanie Graham - Developing, Producing, and Pitching Your Own Work
Tits and Teeth Podcast - December 04, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsStephanie Graham is a director, choreographer and producer. She encourages us all to sit in that producer seat at least once, so let’s dive in and learn how! This season, T+T Productions has collaborated with the Canadian Guild of Stage Directors and Choreographers (CGDC) to bring you a series o...
Ask Unladylike: Bitch Boys?
Unladylike - November 28, 2023 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsIs it sexist when straight men call each other the b-word? Cristen tracks down how bitch has (and hasn't) evolved and advises an unlady whose boyfriend thinks the b-word is no longer gendered. Then, a neurodivergent unlady is unsure how to ask friends to stop casually dropping the r-slur. BUT FIR...
Katie German - Maintaining a Work/Life Balance
Tits and Teeth Podcast - November 27, 2023 05:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratingsA work/life balance, how do we sustain such a thing in this fast paced industry? Katie German is here to remind us that it's always in flux and as individual as we are. This season, T+T Productions has collaborated with the Canadian Guild of Stage Directors and Choreographers (CGDC) to bring you...