https://deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/1498075/6666080-viva-la-podcast Today we celebrate 13 episodes by looking at how podcasts are a powerful tool of the media revolution. The podcast allows us to speak our minds in a space where we’ve traditionally been spoken at. By inverting this hierarchy, podcasts allow us to find and share individual experiences and viewpoints. In an environment where both…More
Therapy
https://deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/1498075/6647077-therapy Today I poke at therapy and how we can use it to take our power back. Not much research today, ‘cept for some Foucault fangirling, so here are some links about some of the tools I’ve used on my journey. Meet Shrinkola: Australia’s detention regime sets out to make asylum seekers suffer, says…More
The China Tweet
https://deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/1498075/6629914-the-china-tweet Today we analyse the ‘China tweet’ as a satirical photomontage and consider if our outrage at China is being misdirected. The episode looks at the tweeted image as propaganda designed to reflect back at us Australia’s hidden war crimes. It is a shout out to our hypocrisy which Scott Morrison has no right to…More
Women talking about sex
https://deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/1498075/6609142-women-talking-about-sex Today we are looking at the power dynamics that impact on women speaking about sex on the internet. We dig into the contradictions between women speaking about sex as empowerment and trolls speaking at women about sex as a threat. Explores my experiences speaking in the sexualised space of Fetlife versus my carefully collated…More
Shameless Gladys
https://deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/1498075/6573682-shameless-gladys Today we are poking at NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s claims yesterday that pork barrelling ‘is not illegal’. We explore the narrative she is attempting to construct here and wonder what I means for her to run a trial by media on a topic that’s headed for ICAC. Referred to today: Berejiklian concedes $140m grant…More
Secrets and Shame
https://deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/1498075/6563197-secrets-and-shame Today we look at secrets, shame and the tangled webs of power that go along with them. Not much reading at all, brief references to Women Who Run With Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, but otherwise this all just pulled from my experience. Ends up with a description of what shame feels like in…More
Transparency Fixes Corruption
https://deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/1498075/6543991-transparency-fixes-corruption Today’s episode looks at the knife of transparency and how we could use it to help cut out our corruption. We explore our dropping annual score on the transparency.org Corruption Perceptions Index and look at the steps our government is taking to slow down this conversation. Sorry – I forgot my inclusive language today – I…More
Criminal Trade Unions
https://deboningpower.buzzsprout.com/1498075/6525970 This episode looks at the recent raids by the Australian Federal Police on offices and homes associated with the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (aka CFMEU). It looks at the increasing criminalisation of the trade union movement, tracing it back through the AFP’s Trade Union Taskforce and the 2014 Royal Commission into…More
