Female Fear Factory: The Podcast is inspired by the ground-breaking book, Female Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy’s Cultures of Violence by award-winning author and renowned feminist scholar, Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola. The Female Fear Factory speaks to the different ways patriarchy produces fear in people socialised as female. Through first-hand stories, women, and non-binary people from across locations, South Africa to Sri Lanka, India to Iran and culture, generation and religion, talk about their experience of fear, how it is nurtured within them, how it has shaped their lives, and how they are breaking free from it. We hear from the author herself, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Chitra Nagarajan, Natalia Molebatsi and many more. Female Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy’s Cultures of Violence is OUT NOW. www.cassavarepublic.biz
Chardine Taylor Stone
Award-winning cultural producer, writer and feminist activist shares her thoughts on female fear in new places, limited public spaces, urban design and woman and so much more.
12/22/2022 • 8 minutes, 17 seconds
Simone Zeefuik
Simone Zeefuik gets into everyday fears, inherited fears, work place fears, the power of community and more .
12/15/2022 • 12 minutes, 14 seconds
Muthoni Muiruri
Our guest, literary advocate and Co-Founder of Soma Nami Books, Muthoni Muiruri reflects on incidences that made her feel violated, creating forms of protection for herself, shrinking public spaces, the need to push for affirmative action and creating community through Soma Nami Books.
12/8/2022 • 5 minutes, 15 seconds
Sarah Ozo-Irabor
Finding safety in community has been a running theme through the guests we’ve spoken to on Female Fear Factory: The podcast, as with our latest guest, Sarah Ozo-Irabor, founder of Books and Rhymes and Director of AKO Caine Prize.
Circling back to the incidences that happened in the church which led her to feel safe to violate, Ozo-Irabor reflects on spaces deemed safe but aren’t always, women who uphold patriarchy and so much more.
12/2/2022 • 14 minutes, 35 seconds
Minna Salami
We speak to feminist writer, Minna Salami in this episode. Salami gets into her childhood experiences, the disparity in how boys and girls are raised, navigating fear and carving out fear free spaces for herself.
11/25/2022 • 11 minutes, 43 seconds
Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda
What is it like growing up Black in Iran? Our guest, Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda paints the picture. Hit play and listen to her experience with fear, creating language and action to fight it for herself but also others through the work of her organisation, Collective of Black Iranians and more.
11/17/2022 • 6 minutes, 2 seconds
Rosebell Kagumire
Our guest, Rosebell Kagumire, Ugandan feminist powerhouse, recounts the experience that led her to feel safe to violate, and how this singular event shaped her, society’s reaction to adolescent body changes by narrowing spaces as a form of “protection” rather than focus on threats, taking control of her body image, using her platform, African Feminism to advocate for women’s rights and so much more.
11/11/2022 • 14 minutes, 59 seconds
Tresha Lionel
In this episode, St. Lucian writer and journalist, Tresha Lionel speaks on her experience with female fear as early six years old, policing her self in her work as a journalist, the role of law enforcement in protecting women, how she is facing fear with courage and carving a fear free space through her community, Cookies and Conversations.
11/3/2022 • 8 minutes, 55 seconds
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10/27/2022 • 7 minutes, 28 seconds
Amanie Mathurin
Female Fear Factory: The Podcast heads to St. Lucia this week! Our guest, writer, Amanie Mathurin shares her thoughts on what it means to be “safe to violate”, recounts an incidence of street harassment, fear passed on through generations and the importance of allowing one’s self to live free.
10/20/2022 • 7 minutes, 19 seconds
Karina Karunwi
In this episode, founder of Ere Wellness, Karina Karunwi takes us back to her childhood, reflecting on growing up in an all-girl household and society’s judgement, her journey with image perception and eating disorder which inspired her business in the wellness industry.
10/13/2022 • 8 minutes, 32 seconds
Natalia Molebatsi
In this episode, South African writer, poet, and singer, Natalia Molebatsi talks about her early encounter with feared spaces, inherited toxic masculinity, victim blaming, safe spaces and the power of community.
10/6/2022 • 11 minutes, 59 seconds
Chitra Nagarajan
This episode features activist, researcher and writer, Chitra Nagarajan.
In telling her story of the fear factory, Nagarajan reflects on her first experience of gender based violence from street harassment, the culture of silence, adult and child relations, what this means for young girls and more.
Female Fear Factory is published by Cassava Republic Press https://bit.ly/3DqUrFn
9/29/2022 • 11 minutes, 53 seconds
Pumla Dineo Gqola
In this episode, author, Pumla Dineo Gqola takes us through her lived experience of the fear factory. The South African academic, writer, and gender activist reflects on the inspiration behind coining “Female Fear Factory” and rape culture. Gqola illustrates how the factory works to weaponise fear as a form of control.
Female Fear Factory is published by Cassava Republic Press https://bit.ly/3DqUrFn
9/22/2022 • 16 minutes, 26 seconds
Female Fear Factory: The Podcast Intro
Inspired by the book, Female Fear Factory by Pumla Dineo Gqola, this podcast is a space where people share their experience with fear inherited from the systems designed to keep certain people from stepping into the joy of their personhood.
On this podcast, you will hear about when fear has hacked and when communities heal.
Female Fear Factory is published by Cassava Republic Press https://bit.ly/3DqUrFn
