Sem 2 ’25: Hysterical Women

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We’ve come a long way, baby. Gone are the days of popping benzos and not owning a credit card because the feminist movement has won women the right to pod. Consider us the madwomen in your attic – we’re two hysterical women discussing hysterical women in history and pop culture. In a low-brow personable way yes, but also in a researched semi-academic way, bridges the gap between academia and pop culture. Whilst incorporating the wider socio-political-historical context of the time we examine various hysterical women and ask ourselves – were they truly crazy or was it just misogyny? Maybe they just a little too outspoken, ambitious, or freaky for their time.

Our muses include incestuous scheming baby mama Agrippina the Younger (and the scheming debauchery of the Roman court), astrology-loving throat goat Nancy Reagan, pioneering actress Valerie Solanas (with tangential discussion on SCUM manifesto and the global lack of female terrorism), and cuntry band the Chicks (US imperialism and the flaccid resistance to the Iraq War). We broadcast for anyone who sees moving faces in their walls or wonders whether the chicks would’ve faced the same ridicule if they had dicks. Yes, we are a women-run podcast about women, but anyone can tune in.

We asked hosts Katie (Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts majoring in Biology and Archaeology with a minor in Psychology) and Chiara (Bachelor of Arts double majoring in Psychology and International Relations) a couple of questions to get to know them a little better.

What song are you listening to over and over at the moment?

Chiara: help me scrape the mucus off my brain – Ween.

Katie: Last Train to London – Electric Light Orchestra

If you could pick a food that embodies your show, what would it be?

Anything pickled! An acquired taste, but those who get it, get it.

Which musical act no longer with us would you most want to time travel to watch live, just once?

Chiara: Not dead, but travel back in time an throw tomatoes at bob dylan at the Newport folk festival 1965.

Katie: Basic answer – Queen at Liveaid, less basic answer – the Celtic war songs that freaked tf out of Julius Caesar so much he wrote about it.

Give us a Spotify playlist that encapsulates your show!