Living While Feminist

Nov 19 2023 58 ep. 40 mins 5
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Living While Feminist is a podcast in celebration of living a feminist life. Each week it features a feminist from South Africa and the world so that we can listen to and draw from their experiences to embolden our own. Hosted by feminist author, writer, and researcher, Jen Thorpe.

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S6:E5 - Lenina Rassool on the Womxn Show, covering GBV, and finding support in community

Nov 19 2023 41 mins  
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Lenina Rassool. Lenina is the producer and presenter of The Womxn Show, a weekly TV show produced by Cape Town TV that focuses on gender-based violence and gender justice. The show launched in 2019 and since then has aired over 100 episodes – an incredible achievement. For listeners who want to go and check it out, you can watch it on

S6: E4 - Nechama Brodie: Music, motherhood and Domestic Terror

Nov 13 2023 73 mins  
Nechama Brodie is no stranger to the Living While Feminist podcast. We spoke in 2021 for Season 4, so if you haven’t listened to that episode please do go back and find it now. Nechama Brodie is an absolute polymath – multi-media journalist, author, senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Journalism and Media Studies, musician, singer, martial art

S6: E3 - Dee Marco: Making private and public space for motherhood

Nov 05 2023 57 mins  
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Derilene Marco. Derilene is a creative scholar who holds a Senior Lecturer position in Media Studies at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dee’s research pivots around social and cultural practices and experiences of the everyday, particularly in relation to mothering identities, person-making and caregiving as labour/ work. S

S6: E2 - Athambile Masola: The power of writing our truths

Oct 29 2023 67 mins  
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Athambile Masola. Athambile is a writer, researcher and an award-winning poet based in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her debut collection of poetry is written in isiXhosa, Ilifa (Uhlanga Press, 2021). She is the co-author of the children’s history book series, Imbokodo: Women who shape us (Jacana, 20

S6: E1 - Sam Beckbessinger - Female friendship, fiction writing, and the freedom of living somewhere new

Oct 22 2023 60 mins  
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Sam Beckbessinger. I had the pleasure of talking to Sam in December 2020 for Season 1 about How to Manage your Money like a Fucking Grown-up, and we talked all things money from a feminist perspective. So, if you haven’t yet listened to that episode, go back, and download it now. Since I last spoke to Sam her writing career has gone from

S5: E9 - Rumbi Goredema Görgens - Making Motherhood Matter

Oct 04 2022 48 mins  
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Rumbi Goredema Görgens. Rumbi is a Zimbabwean-born South African-based feminist author and activist. Her writing has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Vela Magazine, and on FeministsSA.com and MyFirstTimeSA.com. She has worked with various South African civil society organisations, and her current day job is at Embrace, a movement dedicated

Season 5 update

Oct 03 2022
A quick update to say that my real mom life has got in the way of recording and sharing this week's episode. It'll be out later this week.

S5: E8 - Lauren Beukes - Parenting across the multiverses

Sep 25 2022 52 mins  
Today on the podcast I’ll be speaking with Lauren Beukes. Lauren  is the award-winning author of six novels, a collection of short stories, a pop history about South African women, and New York Times best-selling comics. Her work has been translated into 26 languages. Her novel, The Shining Girls, about a time-travelling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt arou

S5: E7 - Megan Ross - Motherhood and feminism as a process of constantly forgiving yourself

Sep 18 2022 38 mins  
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Megan Ross. Megan is a writer, creative consultant and journalist. She is the author of Milk Fever (published by uHlanga Press in 2018) which is a collection of poetry. In Milk Fever Megan writes about the uneasy truths of unexpected motherhood and all its emotional detritus. It explores the choices and misadventures of young womanhood, cente

S5: E6 - Sarah Lotz - Parenting without judgment and the fun of writing

Sep 11 2022 40 mins  
Today on the podcast I’m speaking with Sarah Lotz. Sarah was born in the UK, lived in Paris, Israel and spent 20 years in Cape Town. She returned to the UK 5 years ago and is currently living on the Welsh borderlands. She’s an ex mural artist, now lucky enough to be a full time screenwriter and novelist. Sarah has published 20 novels that have been translated into over 25 langu