What It’s Like to Lose a Baby, Twice: Surrogacy in Australia, Hayley’s Story (GUEST CHAT)
Surrogacy in Australia: What Happens When Key Relationships Break Down? When Hayley agreed to become a surrogate for people she knew and trusted, she imagined she wasn’t simply helping create a famil...
5 Aug 1h 14min
Could a Sunflower Have Prevented a Panic Attack? (FIELD NOTES)
🌻🌻🌻 Sunflowers, Salmon & 30 Seconds of Kindness Today’s episode starts at a Coles self-checkout and ends somewhere much bigger. After asking two women for a little extra personal space, Catharine ...
29 Jul 29min
Hummus Will Bring Us Together ~ with Stephanie Pierce (GUEST CHAT)
What do hummus, gumbo, German bread, Jewish food, autism, Down syndrome, a South Australian lamb roast and one very versatile carrot have in common? Stephanie Pierce. Stephanie is a disability special...
6 Jul 1h 6min
My Knee Is Older Than I Am: Adriana Obando (GUEST CHAT)
At 16, Adriana Obando shattered her femur. Thirty-three years, 12 major surgeries and countless procedures later, she stopped chasing “the fix.” We talk about chronic pain, failed knee replacements,...
1 Jul 1h 12min
I Didn’t Hit Rock Bottom. I Still Got Sober.
This episode is dedicated to everyone who grew up in a household impacted by alcohol. ❤️ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I thought you had to hit rock bottom before you were allowed to get sober. Turns out, you do...
1 Jul 40min
Accessibility Isn’t a Favour: A Conversation with Ellie Rowlands (GUEST CHAT)
Accessibility Isn’t a Favour: Ellie Rowlands on Ableism in Everyday Life When we talk about disability, we often focus on the big moments: discrimination cases, inspirational stories, fundraising camp...
19 Jun 54min
When You Call a Cunt a Cunt, It Doesn’t Make You a Good Person (FIELD NOTES)
A friend said something to me over lunch recently that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about: “When you call a cunt a cunt, it doesn’t make you a good person.” That conversation sent me back to a...
16 Jun 16min
Everybody Needed Her. She Went Dancing Anyway. Ft Namita Pandey (GUEST CHAT)
What starts as a conversation about food quickly becomes a conversation about the invisible work women carry every day. In this episode of The C-Word, I talk with Namita Pandey, founder of Aurum Celeb...
12 Jun 1h 8min
