SIM Ep 319 Pod 94: Smashing stigma, a deadly downstairs and our women of the year
#SmashAbortionStigma is the new campaign from Marie Stopes UK, aiming to make people feel more comfortable talking about their abortion experiences – that includes the healthcare professionals, too, a...
18 Dec 20191h 1min
SIM Ep 318 Chops 139: Pain and Prejudice with Gabrielle Jackson
Journalist Gabrielle Jackson’s personal dealings with endometriosis led her to explore how women – historically and through to today – are underserved, sometimes fatally, by the systems that are suppo...
15 Dec 201929min
SIM Ep 317 Pod 93: Hysteria and space dementia (don't forget to vote!)
With the General Election just a day away, we talk to Chi-chi Shi and Rosa Caradonna of campaign group FCK Boris about why young people are rallying against the Tories. Mick chats to Gabrielle Jackson...
11 Dec 20191h 3min
SIM Ep 316 Chops 138: Five Steps To Happy with Ella Dove
Since it was World Disability Day on Tuesday, Jen caught up with author and journalist Ella Dove, who was left 'temporarily incapacitated' after an accident led to her leg being amputated below the kn...
8 Dec 201929min
SIM Ep 315 Outside The Box #18
Got a load of Christmas wrapping to do? Then why not park yourself in front of the telly and get viewing? We talk Watchmen, The Crown, His Dark Materials, Ladhood, Guilt and War of The Worlds in this ...
6 Dec 201929min
SIM Ep 314 Pod 92: Elections, abuse and awareness
In this episode we chat to Fiona Mackenzie of We Can’t Consent To This, a campaign highlighting the alarming trend of men claiming ‘rough sex’ as a defence against injuring and killing women. Author a...
4 Dec 201959min
SIM Ep 313 Chops 137: The (feminist) little mermaid
The Little Mermaid is a much-loved fairy Hans Christian Andersen tale that became a Disney film classic. But boy oh boy is it problematic. Author Louise O’Neill has written The Surface Breaks a cracki...
1 Dec 201924min
SIM Ep 312 Gig 49: Cairney and Jones
Gemma Cairney and Rosie Jones join Hannah, Mick and Jen to chat fighting with furniture, sledging for Brexit, starting a commune, pissing yourself on Mastermind, the kindness of strangers, and ham on ...
27 Nov 201951min
