Public Law and Legislation

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 the 16th and 17th Centuries? Can a line be drawn from the centralisation of wealth and power, away from supposed witches and ‘female’ knowledge to the neoliberal patriarchal nightmare we live in today? Well…yeah. Obvs. Show Notes Silvia Federici, 'Caliban and the Witch' (2004) Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English, 'Witches, Midwives and Nurses, A history of Women Healers’ (2015) Unobscured Podcast, Aaron Mehnke (2018) https://historyunobscured.com Benjamin Marschke, “Witches: Sex and Science in the 16th Century.” (2016) Humboldt State University ‘Favourite Lecture Series’ https://bit.ly/2EGVbWI Edited by Alex Griffiths https://soundcloud.com/alex_g87

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 little worried the story would move along before we got the episode edited and out, but fortunately (and unfortunately), Brexit never seems to change, we seem constantly to be teetering over the abyss...Happy Days! Production: Alex Griffiths https://soundcloud.com/alex_g87

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 benefits all of us.

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 the US in the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh, has anything changed?

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 inflicted and crisis of identity that has followed for so many of us. Carry on Remoaning!!!

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.

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, drama, a VILLAINOUS member of the patriarchy...and multiple HEROES! Also Pip created an equally important kitchen!

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 by Sistrionics

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 Patriarchy! Your hosts are the wonderful Pip Roper from Merseyside, England currently living and working in Germany’s most capital of all cities, Berlin and her determined companion, the ever growing Izzy Choksey currently creating a human in her womb to be located on most days in her Berlin flat attempting to reach her toes whilst raging about politics. Produced monthly with the waxing and waning of that oh so feminine orb in the night sky, Sitrionics can be your guide to all things contemporary, woke, fabulous and lady-ish.