Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
The Femme on Collective is a podcast collective where we discuss issues or pop culture that interests us, with a feminist, female view. Hosts Ada, Alyson, Jess, Ria and Tonya bring their unique voices to a variety of subjects including books, film, TV, feminism, comics, fitness, activism and so much more.
Language:
English
Episodes
Femme On Creatives: Kuchenga Shenjé
3/29/2025
In this episode of Femme On Creatives, author Kuchenga Shenjé speaks to Tonya about Bohemian life, colonization of the mind, the value of Virgos, and how she went about slipping truth into fiction for her debut novel The Library Thief.
Kuchenga's Links:
Website: https://kuchenga.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kuchenga
Buy The Library Thief:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-library-thief-kuchenga-shenj/1144095064
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-library-thief/kuchenga-shenj/9781408726846
Duración:00:39:46
Femme on Creatives: Dena Moes and It's Your Body
3/8/2025
Join us on #IWD25 as we speak with the amazing Dena Moes RN CNM about her new book, It's Your Body: The Young Woman's Guide to Empowered Sexual Health.
Dena is a nurse-midwife with 26 years' experience in reproductive health and her book fills information gaps on all things contraception, sexual health and abortion, for teens and young adults in Trump's America.
We discuss how Dena's book is an essential resource for all everyone, but mostly to help young women make decisions about their bodies, their fertility, and their lives. It really is an incredible chat. Dena is inspiring, funny, and empathetic.
Fins out more about Dena and her incredible book and work: https://itsyourbody.net/
Duración:00:42:04
Literature for Life: Iron Flame
1/20/2025
In honour of the release of Onyx Storm, Literature for Life is coming out early! Yes, listen to Jess, Brigitte and Ria discuss the second book in The Empyrean, Iron Flame. They talk shadow daddies (of course), friendship and a couple of predictions for Onyx Storm. Come and have fun with the Thirsty Three!
Duración:00:50:14
Poetry Theatre: Chelsey Pippin Mizzi
1/17/2025
Poetry Theatre is back! And what an episode.
Ada speaks with Chelsey Pippin Mizzi, a tarot skeptic turned professional tarot reader and creativity consultant about her book Tarot for Creativity: A Guide to IgnitingYour Creative Practice (Chronicle, October 1, 2024) is the new guidebook for generating creative intuition, generating anew, and a new way to get unstuck.
They discuss using the tarot to navigate seasons in our creative lives (from The Wands’ representing passionate new ideas, to The Swords’ capturing stretches of insecurity and struggle with our work), how to harness the tarot as a tool to plan for the seasons of your creative life, and why a tarot ritual can help build and sustain a creative practice.
Find out more about Chelsey:
Instagram: http://instagram.com/pipcardstarot
Website: https://www.chelseypippin.com/
Duración:00:38:49
Femme on Creatives: Jo-Ann Finklestein
1/7/2025
Alyson and Ria speak with Jo-Ann Ficklestein, PhD, about her book Sexism and Sensibility. Jo-Ann shares how she intended to write a book for girls and young women but instead ended up writing a parenting book, and her hope that the book would help heal everyone who reads it. They discuss how Sexism and Sensibility wasn't written to shame parents and how Jo-Ann shares her own experiences throughout the book.
Find out more about Jo-Ann:
Website: https://www.joannfinkelstein.com/
Substack: https://joannfinkelstein.substack.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joannfinkelstein.phd/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086974203277
Thanks for listening to our little podcast, we appreciate you all!
Duración:00:46:28
Femme on Creatives: Lisa Rayne
12/31/2024
In Never Cross a Highlander, author Lisa Rayne manages to seamlessly weave between topics like African gods and Christianity, slavery and scandalous sex, while teaching readers a forgotten history and still offering them a great happily-ever-after love story.
This episode of Femme On Creatives reveals the way the universe guided Lisa to start a writing career, what prompted her to focus her story on a Black Highlander, and how she finds her way out of research rabbit holes.
Lisa's Links
Website: https://lisarayne.com
Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/26aee0cd3b58/author-lisa-rayne-newsletter-signup
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorrayne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorlisarayne
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorrayne
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14157975.Lisa_Rayne
Buy Lisa's Books
Never Cross a Highlander: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Cross-Highlander-Lisa-Rayne/dp/B0CCCX5BD7
Untamed Pre-order: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5RCCKR4
Duración:00:41:34
Femme on Film: Celeste Davis and The men who like women and the men who don't
12/24/2024
Ria and Alyson sit down with the insightful, funny and awesome Celeste Davis to discuss her substack article The men who like women and the men who don't. Yes we can tell.
Based on an essay by Anne Helen Peterson called A Unified Theory of Glen Powell, we have a interesting discussion about men in media, how the patriarchy prioritises male-centred media, how famous women are held to different standards to famous men, and Taylor Swift!
Duración:00:35:10
Active Activism: Cole Lanahan
12/17/2024
Tonya speaks with literary agent Cole Lanahan about her devotion to veterans, how her interest in dogs inspired her advocacy, and the ways her work as a literary agent allows her to flex her activist muscles.
Links for Cole Lanahan:
https://gotyoursixsupportdogs.org
https://x.com/LanahanCole
https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/cole-lanahan/
Duración:00:19:51
Femme On Film Christmas special: The Merry Gentlemen
12/15/2024
Jess gets worked up about naked chests in The Merry Gentlemen, whilst Ria is convinced that the FMC is way too good for Chad Michael Murray. Listen as they discuss Netflix Christmas film, The Merry Gentlemen and slowly lose their minds.
Duración:00:32:17
Femme On Film Christmas special: Hot Frosty
12/6/2024
Welcome to Femme On Film. Join Ria and Jess as, once again, they watch the HOTTEST Christmas films available in streaming. In this episode they discuss future Christmas classic (according to Ria), Hot Frosty. SNOW NIPPLES.
Did you enjoy Hot Frosty? Let us know! Also, be amazing and rate, subscribe and all of that stuff. We love our listeners!
Music: Christmas Spirit by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
Duración:00:40:59
Literature for Life: A Court of Thorns and Roses
12/4/2024
Continuing their chats about romantasy fiction, Jess is joined by Femme On producer Ria and romantasy lover Brigitte to discuss the incredibly popular ACOTAR (A Court of Thorns and Roses) by Sarah J Maas. Ria goes off on one about Feyre while Brigitte shares her wisdom about character growth and shadow daddies. Jess simply tags along for the fun.
Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe if you haven't already. Happy listening, friends!
Duración:00:46:43
Fine Cut: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret with Ona Gritz
11/19/2024
Alyson and Ona Gritz (author of, most recently, a memoir entitled Everywhere I Look and a YA Novel in Verse, Take a Sad Song) discuss a moment in the film adaptation of Judy Blume’s beloved book, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. The moment they discuss is when Rachel McAdams’s character, Barbara, notices a bird out the window and is struck by creative inspiration only to be interrupted by the doorbell. This moment speaks to both Ona and Alyson and really anyone who is trying to balance a creative life with all of the concerns of everyday life. Ona and Alyson have a beautiful discussion about the book and movie and how this adaptation created a world and a character arc for Barbara and what a welcome addition that was. Join us!
Ona’s Website
Ona’s Instagram: @onagritz
Alyson’s Instagram: @byalysonshelton
Alyson’s Website
Duración:00:20:12
Literature for Life: Fourth Wing
11/5/2024
Lit for Life is back! Our host Jess invites producer of the podcast Ria and smut-lover Brigitte to chat about Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. We talk sex, dragon riders and how enjoyable the characters are in this romantic fantasy favourite. We save spoilers for the end, in case you're worried!
If you love this, keep your eyes and ears peeled for more chats about romantasy novels. And don't forget to rate, review, subscribe and follow - all the good things! happy listening.
Duración:01:06:50
Femme on Creatives: Wendy Wimmer
10/31/2024
n this episode, Tonya's guest Dr. Wendy Wimmer (author of the short story collection Entry Level) explains Plot Candy, reveals her discovery of Mr. Collins as a salty snack, and goes on a Ria-style Rant about her beef with Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Wendy's book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60557291-entry-level
Wendy's website: http://www.wendywimmer.com/
Wendy’s Social media:
https://www.instagram.com/wendy_wimmer/
https://www.facebook.com/wmwimmer
https://bsky.app/profile/wendywimmer.bsky.social
BixQuestions:
https://www.facebook.com/thatsmybix
Duración:00:54:15
Ria's questions: Would you rather fridge cold chocolate or room temperature chocolate?
10/30/2024
Ria's questions is back!!!!!! It's another burning question from Ria's brain! There is a clear divide in the collective between the normal people who like fridge cold chocolate (Ria and Tonya) or the weirdos who eat room temperature chocolate (Alyson, Ada and Jess). Tell us, would you rather eat fridge cold chocolate or room temperature chocolate.
Read more of Ria's questions here: https://www.riasquestions.com/
Duración:00:09:48
Femme on Film: To Hold the Night with Jessica Petelle and Alyson Shelton
10/22/2024
In this AMAZING episode of Femme on Film, fantastic and talented Jessica Petelle and Alyson Shelton take the lead to discuss their short film, To Hold The Night. Ria speaks with them about how they made the film and how they managed to make water so utterly terrifying!
About the film: Set in the 1960's, Nadine (Anwen O'Driscoll), a young flight attendant, wakes up in her childhood home on her wedding day. Not only does she not remember getting there, she doesn't remember the groom or their courtship.
To Hold The Night was written by Alyson Shelton and directed by Jessica Petelle.
To Hold The Night instagram: @toholdthenight
Duración:00:42:00
Femme on TV: Survival of the Thickest
10/17/2024
In this episode of Femme on TV, it was Alyson's turn to recommend a TV show to Ria, and so they discuss Michelle Buteau and Danielle Sanchez-Witzel's Survival of the Thickest. Once again, Ria over uses the word 'joy' and Alyson brings fun and thoughtful commentary on this hilarious Netflix show.
Duración:00:24:35
Active Activism: Donna Dees Thomases
10/8/2024
Tonya speaks with Donna Dees Thomases about the Million Mom March, her role in helping to reunite families after Hurricane Katrina, and her award-winning short film “Snowdrops for the Bairns," which shares how the grassroots petitions that emerged after a 1996 school shooting in Dunblane, Scotland changed the gun laws in the UK.
Trailer for Snowdrops for the Bairns: https://vimeo.com/906099379
Donna's Book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579549977/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1
To join a Brady chapter www.bradyunited.org
To learn how to lobby quick and easy, NewtownActionAlliance.org
To send a tweet to your congressional rep. www.shotline.org
Duración:00:50:14
Banned Books Conversations: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (2020)
9/28/2024
Today’s book: Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (2020)
Banned Books Conversations: Where Radical Readers Discuss Prohibited Prose
Banned books are works that have been removed from a library shelf or school curriculum. Over the
course of Banned Books Week, this series covers seven different books, the reasons they were banned,
and the value in reading them.
Guest Links:
Lisa Rayne
https://lisarayne.com/
Instagram: @authorrayne
https://www.bookbub.com/profile/lisa-rayne
Alyson Shelton
https://alysonshelton.com/
Instagram: @byalysonshelton
https://www.reburncomic.com/
Host: Tonya Todd
Video Producer: JP Butler
Audio Producer: Ria Carrogan
Graphics: Mike Burton
Duración:00:56:57
Banned Books Conversations: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
9/27/2024
Today’s book: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
Banned Books Conversations: Where Radical Readers Discuss Prohibited Prose
Banned books are works that have been removed from a library shelf or school curriculum. Over the
course of Banned Books Week, this series covers seven different books, the reasons they were banned,
and the value in reading them.
Guest Links:
Wendy Wimmer
Entry Level - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60557291-entry-level
Social Media: @wendywimmer
http://www.wendywimmer.com/
Brandon Mead
https://www.fiercestorytelling.com/
Instagram: @fiercestorytelling
Kat Fieler
https://www.kjfieler.com/
Writer 2 Writer Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@KatFieler
Host: Tonya Todd
Video Producer: JP Butler
Audio Producer: Ria Carrogan
Graphics: Mike Burton
Duración:01:02:00
