Podcasts by On The Rag

On The Rag

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A'Court look at, laugh at and question the state of women in pop culture, news and the world.

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The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2020 from 2020-12-21T22:39

Pour yourself some eggnog and join the hosts of The Spinoff’s podcast network for our annual Superpod round up of the year that was. Representing Gone By Lunchtime, Dietary Requirements, The Real ...

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On the Rag: Some cool tips on how to cope with the chaos from 2020-04-07T03:31

It's our last podcast for a little while so crack open a bottle of something fizzy and join us as we undergo what is basically a group therapy session. We are one week into national lockdown and st...

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On the Rag: Victories in the courts and dramas over shorts from 2020-02-28T05:37

The On the Rag team assemble to dissect the previous month in news, media and feminism.  It's somehow the end of February so we're here to look back at the month in Women's Stuff. Uniform shorts ar...

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On the Rag: Vagina candles, climate angst and the power of Lizzo from 2020-01-31T02:09

The On the Rag team assemble to dissect what feels like the longest month in human history.  We're back for another year to yarn about all things to do with women in the news and media, along with ...

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The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2019 from 2019-12-19T17:00

Join various hosts of The Spinoff podcasts Gone by Lunchtime, On The Rag, The Real Pod, Paper Cuts, The Offspin, and Dietary Requirements as we look back at the car crash that was 2019. In this sp...

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On the Rag: Sometimes the best self-care is just having a big rage from 2019-12-03T22:42

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  As Christmas breathes down our necks and summer threatens us with...

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On the Rag meets Gloria Steinem from 2019-11-12T23:50

In this special episode of On the Rag, we are joined by author, activist and feminist hero Gloria Steinem ahead of the launch of her new book "The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss Yo...

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On the Rag: Scrambled brains, bad cartoons and the Freddy Krueger in the room from 2019-10-31T05:27

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  Boo! We witches are back for a scary Halloween podcast, after a mont...

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On the Rag: Young women are going to save the world from 2019-10-03T03:46

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  It's been a big month for young women using their voice. Greta Thunb...

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On the Rag: Helping the environment doesn't make you less of a man from 2019-09-05T22:40

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  Mother Earth? What about Father Earth?! In cool news, the world is o...

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On the Rag: Wearing our yoga pants into the fires of hell from 2019-08-02T03:41

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  This month on On the Rag, we have a lot of making up to do after ski...

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On the Rag: Celebrating women's right to choose and also Fleabag from 2019-06-05T04:21:39

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  Rough winds do shake the darling pod of May, but that won't stop the ...

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On the Rag: Don’t buy your Mum scales for Mother’s Day from 2019-05-07T05:04:42

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  This month on On the Rag, we look back at the month of April and yes ...

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On the Rag: We learn more about Muslim feminism from 2019-04-02T01:07:44

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden, Michèle A’Court and Mahvash Ali tackle the past month in women, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  For our March episode we have brought in an extra spe...

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On the Rag: Women can wear suits and men can wear skirts from 2019-03-08T04:45:18

Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  A very late February episode of On the R...

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On the Rag: In which January has felt 40,000 years long from 2019-01-31T22:46:50

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michèle A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  It began with a Gillette razor...

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On the Rag: So this is Christmas, and what has 2018 done? from 2018-12-19T22:51:38

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Madeleine Chapman tackle the past YEAR in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  We made it everyone! It's las...

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The Spinoff SuperPod 2018: the official New Year's honours and dishonours list from 2018-12-19T22:48:03

In the now-annual event of the year, five of our podcasts' hosts join forces like a mighty end of year podcast rat-king. Join Gone by Lunchtime, On The Rag, The Real Pod, Pod on the Couch and Dieta...

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On the Rag: Everything you've ever wanted to ask Clementine Ford from 2018-11-27T03:28:21

A very special episode with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  They said it couldn't be done. They said we couldn't get Clementine Ford back to do another pod. But we did, and here it ...

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On the Rag: Man meatballs, royal greetings and hairy legs from 2018-11-02T04:10:25

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Madeleine Chapman tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  This month Madeleine Chapman...

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On the Rag: September was a month of suffrage and sins from 2018-10-02T03:08:46

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  September was a huge month for...

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On the Rag: How do TERFs get to call themselves feminists? from 2018-09-03T02:46:12

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

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On the Rag: A bloody good month for women from 2018-07-30T23:26:34

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

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On the Rag: Remember how our Prime Minister had a baby?! from 2018-06-29T02:21:21

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

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On the Rag: Period panic and a note for Simon Bridges from 2018-05-31T04:27:35

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...

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On the Rag: Rugby ads, menstrual cups and delving into the world of incels from 2018-05-01T23:06:36

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Madeleine Chapman tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture, with thanks to our friends at The Women’s Bookshop.  Hosted on Acast. See acast....

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On confusing witch hunts and falling in love from 2018-03-29T01:52:19

This month on On the Rag, we’ll be stirring the cauldron and murmuring about witch hunts, lighting a candle for the plight of the old white man and falling in love with New Zealand’s finest love st...

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On the Rag: Workplace harassment, the bad 60 minutes interview and so much more from 2018-03-01T23:49:29

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your...

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On the Rag: In which we are all pregnant (with emotion for Jacinda) from 2018-01-31T02:48

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your...

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The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2017 from 2017-12-19T18:24

To punish you all for being naughty this year, The Spinoff made an unholy mash-up of four of its podcasts. Join Leonie Hayden, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee, Ben Thomas, Duncan Greive, Alex Casey, Mi...

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Have yourself a very feminist Christmas from 2017-11-30T20:46:02

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the age-old conundrum: how do you cope with Christmas without exploding? As we roll into December on a one-horse open sleigh, the Chri...

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That's no Pink Princess, that's the Prime Minister from 2017-11-02T02:42:22

As the stardust settles and the chicky-babes stop cheeping, the On the Rag team assemble to talk about what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern means to them. Is she a Red Queen? Is she a Pink Princess? ...

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We've all got one of those gross taxi stories from 2017-10-06T01:57:56

Listen to Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michele A’Court tackle the past month in women, news and popular culture. This month the gang is back together to tackle the past month-ish in New Zealand me...

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Clementine Ford takes us to feminist church from 2017-09-14T01:53:17

This month's episode of On the Rag is blessed with the presence of Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl author, proud feminist and dedicated "life-ruiner". Over orange juice and avocado on toast, the...

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A special edition live podcast from the city of the future from 2017-08-22T23:30:24

In this special edition podcast, the On the Rag team do a roadie to the Spark festival in Hamilton to talk creativity and struggles.  Arriving on a sugar high courtesy of Duck Island ice-cream and ...

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Why is everyone obsessed with Jacinda's womb? from 2017-08-08T02:49:46

This month the gang is back together to tackle the past month-ish in New Zealand media, news and general bullshit, with help from our glorious new sponsors at twenty-seven names. Why is everyone cr...

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On the Rag: Why no parade for the women's rugby team? from 2017-07-05T22:12:57

This month Alex and Leonie are joined by The Spinoff's Madeleine Chapman, who also produces the podcast at the same time because women are notoriously good at multitasking haw haw haw. Together the...

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Wherein some women weep for Wonder Woman from 2017-06-07T03:12:12

Michele's back from drinking absinthe with Stevie Wonder, Leonie's swanned in on a wave of Kit Kats from the bustling streets of Tokyo, and Alex hasn't moved an inch either way. It's the latest epi...

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The women tell all… about bleeding from 2017-05-05T04:34:59

With Michele still elbow-deep in beignets in New Orleans, comedian and half of Boners of the Heart Alice Snedden joins Leonie and Alex to drink some bubbles and chat about the past month for women....

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In which we must stick together like period glue from 2017-04-05T00:23:53

With a delicious box of Munchkins in the safety of The Spinoff podcast studio, the On the Rag team huddle together to reflect on the month of March (it's late, we know). Topics for this month inclu...

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On The Rag LIVE from 2017-03-09T04:58:43

Join ALex Casey, Leonie Hayden and Michelle A'Court for the first ever on-a-stage-live show! Recorded and broadcast on Facebook Live at The Generator in Auckland's Britomart. Huge thansk to them an...

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On the Rag: We went back to 1972 to talk Equal Pay and flared jeans from 2017-02-27T00:23:59

We are all about Scooby Doo, ABBA and cords this week, as Alex, Leonie and Michele meet in 1972 to talk about equal pay between men and women in New Zealand. From dissecting the 1972 Equal Pay Act ...

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Holy shit, it's only January from 2017-01-31T01:29:13

With a much-needed glass of bubbles, and in the safe bunker of The Spinoff podcast studio, the On the Rag team huddle together in horror to talk about the first month of 2017. Topics for this month...

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Christmas edition On the Rag: Who made the naughty and nice list for 2016? from 2016-12-22T21:29:32

For the final Christmas episode of On the Rag, the gang look at the highs and lows for women in 2016.  It's the last episode of On the Rag, a podcast for people who consider themselves feminists ev...

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On the Rag – November edition ft. Botched eyeliner and human whack-a-mole from 2016-12-02T04:32:55

Every month host Alex Casey is joined by comedian/writer Michele A’Court and Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden to discuss what happened in the world of women over the preceding four weeks. Better ...

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Post US Election Emergency Edition from 2016-11-11T03:40:56

Our On the Rag podcast team have an emergency meeting to discuss what happened to the world of women this week, how to cope and what to do next.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...

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On The Rag: October Edition from 2016-11-07T22:11:05

Every month host Alex Casey is joined by comedian/writer Michele A’Court and Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden to discuss what happened in the world of women over the preceding four weeks. Better ...

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September edition on Trump and why we don't need a Minister for Men from 2016-10-03T04:42:17

This month, host Alex Casey is joined by comedian and writer Michele A’Court and Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden to talk about what September held for women in New Zealand and the world. Listen ...

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On The Rag Special 2: Night sweats and pill woes with Madeleine Sami and Laura Daniel from Funny Girls from 2016-09-28T23:12:03

A rare experimental edition of On the Rag featuring Laura Daniel and Madeleine Sami, two key players in TV3's female-driven sketch comedy Funny Girls.  In this special edition of On the Rag, Alex C...

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Whopper August Edition dissects a truly awful month for women from 2016-08-31T01:39:52

We survived the gold medal sexism of the Olympics, the Chiefs scandal, Kevin Roberts and much more to bring you this month's bumper 80 minute episode of despair. As always, host Alex Casey is joine...

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July Edition featuring bad trolls and a revolution in sweater storage from 2016-08-03T04:34:34

It's always a good feeling when the rag arrives right on time. This month, host Alex Casey is joined by comedian and writer Michele A’Court and Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden to talk about what...

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On The Rag Special 1: the women behind The Rehearsal from 2016-07-22T05:12:49

In this special edition of On the Rag, Alex talks to the powerhouse of women behind The Rehearsal, the New Zealand film based on the novel by Eleanor Catton. Alison Maclean, Emily Perkins and Kerry...

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June Edition featuring bad tennis dresses and What Men Really Want from 2016-07-11T21:41:22

Better late than never, host Alex Casey is joined by comedian and writer Michele A’Court and Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden to talk about what June held for women in New Zealand and the world. ...

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May edition on lady Ghostbusters, women-only swim nights and ball dress nightmares from 2016-06-03T06:08:58

Better late than never, host Alex Casey is joined by comedian and writer Michele A’Court and Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden to talk about what May held for women in New Zealand and around the w...

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April Edition featuring hemlines, harassment and a vagina dialogue from 2016-05-27T02:40:32

Better late than never, host Alex Casey is joined by comedian and writer Michele A’Court and Mana magazine editor Leonie Hayden to talk about what April held for women in New Zealand. That is to sa...

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March edition featuring Wicked Campers, the Bachelor’s feminism and the She Wee from 2016-05-27T02:37:06

It’s a wee bit of a sad episode this month as Zoe is to be leaving these shores for the fast lane in England. Nonetheless many things are discussed: the reality and message behind that thigh gap je...

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February edition featuring Barbie, Kesha and Return of Kings from 2016-05-27T02:35:51

This month: Barbie, the simple joy of changing a flat tyre on a car, Kesha, Josh Drummond’s stellar “I am a feminist” piece on stuff.co.nz and Michele gives her tip on how to read the comments. Ho...

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Episode 2: January Heatwave Edition from 2016-05-27T02:32:16

The second episode of On the Rag, a podcast hosted by Alex Casey which looks at, laughs at and questions the state of women in pop culture, news and the world. To dissect January’s issues in the se...

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Listen to the First Episode of On the Rag – 2015 in Women from 2016-05-27T02:27:21

The first episode of On the Rag, a podcast hosted by Alex Casey which looks at, laughs at and questions the state of women in pop culture, news and the world. To look at back at the year of 2015, s...

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