The 90s!We’re going back to the 90s! Those damn commies have lost, Clarissa can conceivably explain it all, JK Rowling seems to be the incorruptible moral compass of an entire generation of children and would never alienate a marginalised gro

Episode 16 - Caring is Sharing + Outtakes!

Jun 26th, 2020 47m 53s

We really do care. Do you?Back to women’s work. Back to care in the times of Corona. In our first podcast as two merging households we dive into domestic work, childcare, and care generally. Covid throwing into relief once again the precarious

Episode 15 - Ending White Supremacy and Boosting Allyship

Jun 13th, 2020 34m 33s

In this episode, Pip and Izzy address the #BlackLivesMatter protests that have kicked off since #GeorgeFloyd's brutal murder in the US 19 days ago. What does it mean to be an ally? How can more white people join this movement? And what will it

Episode 14 - Lessons of 2008 Covid-19 Recovery

May 25th, 2020 48m 41s

Izzy breaks down what happened in response to the financial crash of 2008: there were SubPrime Mortgages….huh? There were Derivatives…who? Credit swaps…how many? It was all extremely confusing and seemed simpler to blame a global financial cris

Sistrionics Covid Check in

May 5th, 2020 27m 4s

We took a bit of time to adjust to the New World Order but we're back making a plan for future episodes and checking in with our adoring public...we thought of releasing a charity single but I cringed SO hard my face turned inside out. As a tre

Episode 13 - Megxit, Brexit, It's 2020 Bitch

Jan 31st, 2020 47m 39s

Brexit is happening! We tried, they won, GET OVER IT!!!!!But a little something happened earlier this year that really made us hopeful about the future. A certain Duchess said...No thanks Byeeeee!So if you're looking for a good Brexit bitch

Episode 12 - Disobedience...but y'know, keeping it Civil

Nov 14th, 2019 46m 14s

Civil Disobedience…whose doin it? Who wants to do it? What does it take to make those in charge listen to the facts on climate change? What if I really confidently jaywalk whilst flipping off the police…not for the climate just in my desperatio

Episode 11 - Gender and Crime

Aug 6th, 2019 41m 23s

When Pip was doing her MA she did a module called ‘Gender, Crime and Deviancy’ it was key in teaching how to read gender through history and today. Who gets the benefit of the doubt in the justice system? Who and what crimes are most reviled in

Episode 10. Witches Bitches

Mar 8th, 2019 41m 20s

Happy International Women’s Day!To celebrate we're talking...Witches! How has the figure of the witch been perpetuated and represented throughout history? Who were the people most persecuted at the height of the western witchcraft trials of th

Episode 9. Brexit...yeah its still this big thing

Feb 5th, 2019 38m 4s

Well, we have a lot of things we want to record talking about...but Brexit is so heavy on our minds we thought we would try to exorcise the demon once more! Recorded after Theresa May's historic defeat in Parliament earlier in January, I was a

Episode 8- A woman's work

Nov 16th, 2018 33m 44s

Traditionally gendered women's work is what keep the machinery of society moving, usually quietly and very often going unrecognised. We talk about the importance of 'women's work' and how its appreciation and sharing across the gender divide be

Episode 7- Metoo2 Where are we now?

Sep 28th, 2018 34m 40s

Its been almost a year since the New York Times broke the story of Harvey Weinstein's serial sexual abuse. Its been nine months since our first podcast where we focused on the Metoo movement. As we see an increase in divide and partisanship in

Episode 6- The Quagmire of Shit...that is Brexit

Jun 23rd, 2018 41m 1s

With all of the confusion, misdirection, vitriol, fear and sheer cack-handedness of the British Government, we, two British women and a British/German baby leave the stats and arguments and have a cathartic RANT on the anxiety Brexit has inflic

Special Episode: Repeal the 8th

May 23rd, 2018 35m 55s

Izzy and Pip got together about a week or so before the referendum in Ireland on the 25th May 2018 to discuss the injustice and indignity Irish women have suffered at the hands of the 8th Amendment. Special thanks to Anna, Sinead and Ken.

Episode 4 - Birth: The Human vs. The Flat Pack

May 21st, 2018 50m 44s

This episode we finally did it, we FINALLY did it...well Izzy did it after some many hours of labour. But it all paid off and the world has a new beautiful boy!!! Listen to her gripping birth story which has everything...Romance, suspense, dram

Episode 3- What to expect just before you're expecting

Mar 28th, 2018 50m 18s

This episode Izzy talks about what she has learned in the run up to her due date which is ANY DAY NOW!!!!!! And Pip dives into the story of Hedy Lamarr which combines two of her favourite topics: Hollywood history and fighting the Nazis!!!

Episode 2 - Housing is a feminist issue

Feb 28th, 2018 35m 40s

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Sistrionics - Episode 1 #MeToo

Feb 3rd, 2018 30m 24s

Sistrionics – a Podcast about hard hitting issues with occasional reference to Donatella Versace, pregnancy and motherhood, the correct way to urinate in a public toilet whilst wearing a jump suit and of course the eventual defeat of the Patria

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