Femmes Chuchotantes

On this week's season finale, we wrap it up with a blast from the past (fuck). We recount tales of our favorite childhood role models, inspirations, and fictional characters. We explore the extreme realities of idealization and how it has changed and manifested differently though the years. Enjoy (and goodbye for now)!

In this week's episode, we take an unexpected (lol) turn into the future, checking in with present-us on what they want one-year-from-now-us to achieve (confusing we know). Join us as we set (potentially unreachable) mid-year goals, with our trademark intermissions (about the apocalypse this time around). Enjoy!

In this week's episode, we explore the history and evolution of our (geographic, political, social, emotional) identities with our very dear friend, and second guest for the season, Sarah. “Hello! It's Sarah, I'm 21 years old and I live in Lebanon. Although I've lived here most of my life, I wasn't born here and wouldn't be considered Lebanese by any official standards, which leaves me with a big sense of confusion. Being a third culture kid, I've always felt like my identity was shifting and moving, and I'm still trying to figure myself out.”

In this week's episode we bring to life one of our most important, notable, distinguished guests: Percy! We ask our un-answering canine all the questions we've ever had; if only they could speak for 24 hours. Enjoy!

This week's episode brings us a prompt: paper-cuts. What is a paper-cut, and more importantly, what is an emotional paper-cut? They can be easy pains, long-endured pains that we have become accustomed to, or pains that are so deep that no matter how much healing we do, will never stop hurting. Tag along, we suppose.

In this week's episode we dismantle and deconstruct labels associated with the often misogynistic tropes frequently perpetuated in books, movies, and the media. You guessed it, the “pick me” trope! Tag along as we dissect the personal, public, and political. Enjoy!

In this week's episode we deconstruct (or at least try to) the notions of cheating and the gendered and often misogynistic narratives ascribed to it. Is infidelity a deal breaker in relationships or is it excusable? Idk, you're gonna have to tag along!

In this week's episode, we travel through the night and the nightmares it unravels. Rhea explores her recurring murder stories while Emma tackles her control issues (lol as if). Enjoy!

On this week's episode, we talk books! Listen to Emma solemnly realize her new fav genres include cities, outer space, and apocalypses, while Rhea embarks on a long-lasting fantasy and murder journey. And of course to no one's surprise, a lot of the books contain romance. Enjoy!

Hey hi hello, this week we explore what it means to have support systems and who gets to be in them. We reflect on the different ways we like to be held, and well, supported by others. Enjoy!

In this week's episode we reveal which season we feel we are currently going through (mentally, emotionally, psychologically, existentially). Tag along on this journey of endless metaphors and adventurous exploration through the works of Yves Klein (blukh) and Søren Kierkegaard. Enjoy!

The plants episode that isn't a plants episode. In the here and now, we explore the different cathartic journeys that help with the healing that comes after eons of chaos. Enjoy!

Hey hi hello! In this week's episode, our first guest of the season, Vicky, taps in and talks to us about the cool and thought-provoking language usage and code-switching present in our (and other regional) podcast(s). Vicky is majoring in English Literature and minoring in History and Psychology. She also serves as Editor in Chief of Afkar: The Undergraduate Journal of Middle East Studies. Enjoy because we sure as hell did! ****************************** Podcasts referenced: Mrs. Loulwa Kaloyeros' podcast: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/9XvNkFbWNYEKi7pY9 Dr. Sandrine Attalah's podcast : https://hakawati.fm/channels/channel_page/41 ****************************** Relevant Academic References: Alatawi, E. (2015). Structural, socio-pragmatic, and psycholinguistic analysis of codeswitching in arabic TV programs (thesis), ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. 9781339318301 Albirini, A. (2011). The sociolinguistic functions of codeswitching between standard arabic and dialectal arabic. Language in Society, 40(5), 537-562. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404511000674 Edwards, M., & Dewaele, J. (2007). Trilingual conversations: A window into multicompetence. The International Journal of Bilingualism : Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Linguistic Studies of Language Behavior, 11(2), 221-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069070110020401 Nashef, H. A. M. (2013). A , hello and bonjour: A postcolonial analysis of arab media's use of code switching and mixing and its ramification on the identity of the self in the arab world. International Journal of Multilingualism, 10(3), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2013.783582

Hey hi hello, in this week's episode we discuss repetitions repeating themselves in repetitive motions, and how, if done frequently enough, can become routines and rituals. Enjoy!

In this third and final episode of the 'Home' series, we throw it back HARD, discussing music that reminds us of home. Warning: nasty vocals coming your way.

In this episode we talk about food that reminds us of home! Food we love, food we hate, places with food we love AND hate. Enjoy, and sahtein!

In this limited series, we reflect on different things that remind us of home. We talk about sounds and smells, places, events, food, and music! Pls, enjoy.

In this season finale, we take a deep dive into the ways in which we neglect ourselves, whether through methods we acquired growing up or somewhere along the way as a reaction to something else. Moreover, we touch on how this (self) neglect is, in a way, inadvertently related to self-sabotage and punishment.

In this week's episode we explore storage, its stories, and how we hold on to them (and why!). With customized wooden spoons and lists of baby names, we reflect on what we choose to keep and why they're kept. Enjoy!

Part 2? Yes, part 2! (*whispers* It's what comes after part 1!) This week we continue reminiscing over movies from our childhood and teenage years. Tag along as we go over the rest of our favorites. Enjoy! You can find the YouTube video "Why the Soundtrack to Shrek is Actually Genius" mentioned in the episode here.

Hi hello, on this week's episode we reminisce over movies that made us: movies we love and have watched one too many times. Listen to us go on and on (and on) about our idealized favored content. Enjoy! *This episode was recorded in 2020

In this first episode of 2021, we elaborate on our aversion to "new year's resolutions" and instead reflect on the tasks/intentions we want to set for the year (and years) to come. We hope to achieve all this through habits and thoughts in the hopes of achieving SOME personal growth. Also, here lies 'Bookstores: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content', the YouTube video mentioned in the episode.

Here lies the holiday special. Enjoy!

In this week's episode we expand on an “infamous" tweet describing the loneliest and happiest we've felt while considering what it would be like to live alone and be alone. We consider the fleeting nature of happiness and the role of the emotional envelopes and bubbles we make for ourselves.

Hey hi hello! This week we discuss our struggle with feelings of gratitude and our indefinite feeling of never being able to "give” back and “do more". We carefully inspect the urge to always “pay it back” and “get even” in relationships, and then in more depth (and with more angst), express gratitude towards nature and our “existence” in it. (We should probably also discuss our tendency to “over-use” air quotes. lol, whatever). Enjoy!

In this episode, we slowly transcend into the existential state of wanting to live a 1000 lives whilst only having one. Listen to us gradually spiral and lose almost all sense of identity and reality, as we discuss careers we've wanted to have in the past, and still yearn for in the present. Enjoy!

This week we dissect our problems with productivity and how most of the time we're busy wasting time rather than “getting things done” and "being productive”.

In this episode, listen as Emma reflects on her experience of living in London so far, and the ways it has shifted her relationships. We then discuss the things that have been forced to change this year, from friendships to self-perceptions, as well as the changes we've been actively working on implementing!

This week we discuss the impostor syndrome and the often crippling effects it has on different aspects of our life! Listen to us spend the better part of this episode hyping each other up as a means of deconstructing impostorism whilst remaining grounded in this ever-chaotic realm of being.

In this episode we deconstruct our ideal expectations in relation to our realities! We explore this conundrum's presence in fashion, books, relationships, and other random occurrences and events in our life.

Hey hi hello! This week we revisit the start, progression, and creation of Femmes Chuchotantes. How did it come to be and what does it mean (to us)? How can we weaponize womanhood, and what has our experience with it been like?

Welcome to Femmes Chuchotantes! We kick things off by being apart and discussing what that's like - being away from home, life after the 4th of August, accountability, and the need to do things yet never making the time for them!