The Feminist Bar Podcast
Making everything about feminism with author & feminist activist Tinatswe Mhaka.
Podcast Description
Making everything about feminism with author & feminist activist Tinatswe Mhaka.
Episodes
May 28, 2021
May 28, 2021
47 min
In this FINALE I am joined by four guests from season one: Zimbarbiean, The Feminist Witch, FKA Kizza and PiaSumn to talk about the parameters of sisterhood and how that translates in infidelity and sex. Can women exclude men from their interactions to make for better community? What role do other women play in helping us out of challenging relationships? See you next season!!
May 18, 2021
Loving Feminists is Easy
May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021
16 min
In this week's episode I am with spoken word artist Cristol aka Metaphoric Overdose talk about LOVE. How has feminist love transformed our lives ? Has it changed the way we remember our past relationships ? What are our personal views on love? And are you ready for a new segment ?
May 9, 2021
Patriarchy Made Me Fake Orgasms
May 9, 2021
May 9, 2021
21 min
In this week's episode, I have a drink with Pee (aka Pia_Sumn) to chat about sex during adulthood and how we have come to know and speak for our bodies. What are some of the reasons adult women continue to fake sexual pleasure? Is there an empowered way to have sex?
May 3, 2021
Make all Babies Feminists
May 3, 2021
May 3, 2021
20 min
In this episode I sit down with Kawire from Kenya to talk about her experience of feminist motherhood, dealing with environments that are not always in her control and the hardships of maneuvering and communicating the absence of a father figure. Will conservative norms ever free us from limited definitions of family?
Apr 26, 2021
Free the Gays in Africa
Apr 26, 2021
Apr 26, 2021
20 min
In this week's episode I talk to Lusa, a lawyer/ LGBTQI advocate from Zambia about living queer in Africa, how sexuality has affected friendships & interactions with straight women and finding love in heteronormative spaces. Are we free to find true connections in our home countries ? Can queer people truly live and love in Africa ?
Apr 19, 2021
Patriarchy Rigged Love Languages
Apr 19, 2021
Apr 19, 2021
13 min
In this week's episode, I share a glass of wine with Tashinga Bvekerwa aka Zimbarbiean. We discuss navigating feminism in heterosexual relationships and how we draw the line between things we are expected to do and those we have been taught we have to. Are our love languages a result of socialization? Do our politics isolate us in a way that makes it hard to find love?
Apr 12, 2021
Deadbeat Dads Make Feminists
Apr 12, 2021
Apr 12, 2021
16 min
In this episode, I chat with Tawana aka TiniwanaTalks about the role our traumas play in our personal politics and how relationships with father figures speak to how we find or practice our feminism. Do absent fathers make us radical? Are we inescapably shaped by our experience of fatherhood?
Apr 1, 2021
Bell Hooks vs Crop Tops
Apr 1, 2021
Apr 1, 2021
15 min
In this episode, I am joined by Shingah from the Philippines. We chat about the evolution of clothing and if that has changed the sexist constructions of our identities. Does empowerment mean equality? Do our crop tops create enough discourse to challenge injustice? Has Bell Hooks been right all along or was that a different time?
Mar 25, 2021
Sisterhood Means Defending the Problemats
Mar 25, 2021
Mar 25, 2021
13 min
In this episode, I share a few glasses of wine with Kim, an investment and trade lawyer from Zimbabwe. We chat about the meaning of sisterhood and the role patriarchy plays in the way we build relationships with each other. Are there things we do to other women that might be anti-feminist?
Mar 18, 2021
Criminal Fantasies & Feminist Kinks.
Mar 18, 2021
Mar 18, 2021
18 min
In this episode I share a drink with Anita Holland, gender specialist from Zambia to talk about a podcast episode titled 'Feminists with Rape Fantasies' by Jaclyn Friedman. We share our thoughts on problematic fantasies as an escape from daily reality. What is appropriate and where do we draw the line ?




