The Feminist Bar Podcast 🍸

Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with healer, medium, and artist Thandiwe Gula Ndebele to talk about African spiritual traditions and their contested, generative place inside feminist movement building today. They start with the historical record, the mediums and spiritual leaders who held explicit roles in anti-colonial resistance and the gendered way colonialism went after tho...

Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with a queer couple to talk about building a marriage in a criminalised context. They get into coming into their own identities, transitioning within the relationship, and what it takes to hold each other through that kind of change. The highs, the lows, the fights, the lessons. This is what a real queer life together looks like, told by two peop...

Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with Tapiwa Chikungwa, an educator with experience navigating schooling systems across several continents, to talk about what African formal education was built to produce and who it was never built for. They trace the gap between getting girls into classrooms and actually educating them once inside, what happens to girls who clear the access bar...