The Bipolar Feminist Podcast

Follow The Bipolar Feminist Podcast
Share on
Copy link to clipboard

Intersectional feminism, journalism, mental health, and leftism from a Master's graduate in Gender Studies, Nikita Ramkissoon. Raised in an anti-apartheid activist household, Nikita grew up with a love for human rights and good books. Being a survivor of

Nikita Ramkissoon


    • May 25, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 25m AVG DURATION
    • 113 EPISODES


    Search for episodes from The Bipolar Feminist Podcast with a specific topic:

    Latest episodes from The Bipolar Feminist Podcast

    Interview with the creator of Submit - a kink community with a focus on safety

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2025 65:51


    I interviewed Apollyon, the creator of submit.gg - a social site for kink and BDSM, which focuses on knowledge, safety, and creating a space where diversity can flourish.

    Interview with storyteller Satori Shakoor

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 44:29


    Satori Shakoor, creator of The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers, is all about healing through authentic stories.

    storytellers secret societies satori shakoor twisted storytellers
    Interview with Caeleinn Hogan - writer of Republic of Shame

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2025 62:04


    Caeleinn Hogan talks about the book, Republic of Shame, and the mother and baby homes in Ireland - and the culture that produced the State's methods of "disappearing" unwanted people.

    How whiteness uses POC to further white supremacy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 23:08


    White supremacy is not merely sustained by white individuals but is deeply embedded in social, economic, and political systems that strategically co-opt POC. By analysing historical and contemporary examples, we see how whiteness employs people of colour to maintain its power. Understanding these mechanisms allows us to challenge them, fostering true racial justice and equity. Only through collective awareness and resistance can we dismantle these structures and work towards a more just society.

    Podcast: Interview with Mark of Lorehammer fame

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 58:32


    The Warhammer franchise, spanning tabletop games, novels, and video games, has cultivated a massive and passionate global fanbase. With its deep lore, expansive universes, and strategic gameplay, Warhammer has captivated millions. However, as with many gaming and geek culture spaces, Warhammer's communities are not immune to issues of misogyny and racism. These problems manifest in various ways, from exclusionary attitudes and gatekeeping to outright harassment and discriminatory rhetoric.Warhammer, particularly Warhammer 40,000 (40K), has long been perceived as a male-dominated hobby. From its inception in the 1980s, the game has largely focused on hyper-masculine themes, with its primary factions emphasising war, brutality, and conquest. The grimdark aesthetic of 40K, which promotes dystopian authoritarianism and militarism, has often attracted a certain subset of fans who misinterpret these themes as endorsements rather than critiques. This has led to an exclusionary culture where women and marginalised groups are often viewed as outsiders or even unwelcome intruders.

    Period poverty and its effects

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 22:56


    One of the primary ways to address period poverty is by ensuring that menstrual products are affordable and accessible to everyone. Some countries, such as Scotland and Aotearoa, have made strides in providing free sanitary products in schools and public spaces. Making menstrual products exempt from sales taxes is another critical step, as is reducing the price of sanitary products for low-income individuals.

    The keffiyeh and Hirbawi telling Palestine's stories through fabric

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2025 25:45


    The Palestinian keffiyeh has become a universal symbol of resistance and solidarity. It started as a piece of clothing worn by farmers, but history turned it into something much bigger. It represents defiance against oppression, a call for freedom, and a connection between struggles across different communities. 

    From racialised to racial cleanliness

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 25:00


    Cleanliness, as both a physical and moral concept, has long been entwined with racialised discourses that reinforce systems of power and hierarchy. From colonial frameworks to modern social practices, the politics of cleanliness intersect with notions of race, class, and identity, perpetuating inequalities in subtle and overt ways. The historical roots, socio-political implications, and contemporary manifestations of the racialised politics of cleanliness highlight how these narratives continue to shape societal perceptions and lived experiences.

    Interview with alchemist Elianne el-Amyouni

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2025 58:54


    Elianne, known as Twitchy Witch on social media, has recently completed her PhD in Palestinian identity through hip-hop culture, and we talk about Palestine, identity, resistance, and alchemy.

    Elon Musk and his Nazism problem

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 24:36


    It's not that he's autistic. He's just racist.

    Podcast: Not all men? It's 70,000

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2025 22:26


    They say “not all men” as it will absolve men of being the number one perpetrator of violence over every other population in the world - other men, women, nonbinary and trans folk, and children. So not all men, you say? Well, it's 70,000 of them. There are group chats of over 70,000 men giving each other tips on how to rape women - including their partners. And nothing is being done about it.

    Interview with musician Leila Hegazy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 63:30


    Leila Hegazy has been a musician and organiser for Palestine and now she's got an album of originals and covers out to raise funds for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund - and it all started with Palestine-related spoofs of popular songs on TikTok.

    Colonialism and language

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2024 22:31


    Have you ever wondered why school and university subjects that are seen as universal are taught in colonial languages? Mathematics, sciences, economics and the like are seen as historically and theoretically neutral (which they're not) and English. French, Spanish, and Portuguese, among other European languages, are seen as neutral languages, which they are not either.

    Fatphobia

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 25:04


    Fatphobia is a pervasive and harmful form of discrimination that affects people's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. It is crucial to recognise that body diversity is natural, and a person's worth is not determined by their size.

    Interview with sex worker and educator Violet Beauregarde

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 58:39


    Violet is a professional dominatrix who runs workshops on dirty talk and how to sub, and talks with me on issues of race, sex, consent, and boundaries, among other delightful things. You can find her work at Studio Lux in Berlin.

    Celebrity activism and its issues

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2024 14:30


    While there are celebrities who do the work silently and in a real capacity rather than for show, and some use their platforms to raise funds, it's all too little when you look at the amount of influence and money these people actually have.

    Sudan in crisis

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 23:20


    Having control over the resources in the region would enable capitalist exploitation and bargaining power on the world economic stage. 

    Poverty should be the burden of the powerful

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 24:14


    The idea that individuals can solve poverty is a myth. It lies in the hands of the powerful who have the ability to stop hoarding wealth, exploiting people and resources, and fueling discord among the most vulnerable people. 

    What is going on in the DRC?

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2024 19:14


    Ultimately, It comes down to the unwillingness of the West to let go of its capitalist and imperialist hold on the Global South. 

    Interview with Dr Jill Stein

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 51:21


    I interview Dr Jill Ellen Stein, an American physician, activist, and politician. She is currently running for president in the 2024 United States presidential election and is the only candidate who is advocating for an end to the Israeli apartheid occupation of Palestine.

    Interview with Palestinian activist Haya Tamimi

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2024 50:49


    Welcome to Season 7! I can't believe we are here already. We kick off the season chatting with Palestinian Haya Tamimi, who is heading up a petition to invoke Article 6 of the UN Charter that removes any party that does not work in the organisation in the spirit of freedom and self-determination - in this case, the US.

    Interview with two Syrian rights activists

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2024 45:37


    I interview Sam Masri and an activist known as Rebel about Syria's history of occupation and its brutal war against the Syrian people led by the Al-Assad family.

    Queerness, pinkwashing, and genocide in Palestine

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 21:02


    There are queer Palestinians. The Israeli army boasting that the first time the Pride flag being flown in Gaza was by them in 2023's invasion is ignorant at best and a dangerous narrative at worst, assuming that queer people inside Palestine are only at risk from their own.

    Palestine's children and their life in trauma

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 16:28


    Growing up amid conflict and displacement can lead to a fractured sense of identity and belonging, which is actively being targeted by Israel and its allies with Palestinian cultural and historical erasure being part of the Israeli agenda.

    Finding home

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 25:28


    Home is where we feel we belong, where we're accepted, and where we can just be ourselves. And we have to understand that under our current realities, the most marginalised people all over the world are denied that sense of home even in our own homes and countries.

    Podcast: Student protests for Palestine

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2024 18:51


    Pro-Palestinian campus groups have for years called on their institutions to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, as a means of pushing back against Israel. No US university has ever committed to the BDS framework, although some have cut specific financial ties in the past.

    Interview with Al Jazeera journalist Hani Mahmoud

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2024 61:36


    I speak with Hani Mahmoud, Gaza's war correspondent for Al Jazeera, about the state of journalism and the genocide in Gaza.

    The global digital intifada

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 19:12


    Social media enables Palestinians to share videos about the realities they experience and they have experienced success in getting the attention of many international communities.

    Interview with Sundos Hammad of the R2E Campaign

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2024 58:34


    I speak with Sundus Hammad, coordinator of the Right to Education Campaign, who says Palestinian education is under attack but the more aware we become, the more we can resist Israel's occupation and scholasticide.

    Podcast: GBA Podcast interviews me on Palestine and some other stuff

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2024 58:27


    Nez Reign from the GBA Podcast in Germany and I chat about Palestine, journalism, gender identity, and Abu Obeida. 

    Genocide, its definition, and characteristics

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2024 18:02


    It was more than seventy years ago that United Nations member states approved the Genocide Convention born out of the desire to ensure that “never again” would any person face the horror of genocide. Since then, we have seen that the world is not free from the threat and reality of the “odious scourge” of genocide as laid out in the document. More than 20 genocides have taken place since the convention was signed and there are three that we know of happening currently - in Palestine, the Congo, and Sudan.

    The New York Times and its credibility problem

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2024 14:31


    If the Times wanted to serve its readers and the world, especially in this volatile time, it would launch a transparent investigation into this botched article, the biggest failure of journalism at the newspaper since Judith Miller's infamous and discredited articles on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2002 and 2003. Just as Miller regurgitated war propaganda on behalf of the Bush administration, the Times is now serving as a mouthpiece for Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet and Joe Biden as his lapdog. But there's little chance the Times will come clean about this latest fiasco. 

    Deconstructing Israel's claims of rape on 7 October

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2024 14:36


    I can safely say that while I believe women regardless - sometimes to my detriment - I do not believe the Israeli government, media, and military.

    Analysis of the ICJ ruling against Israel

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2024 37:22


    There are mixed feelings and has been much analysis on why it's either a success or failure or both. Presiding Judge Joan Donoghue said the court was acutely aware of the extent of the human tragedy unfolding in the region and is deeply concerned about the continuing loss of life and human suffering and that some allegations against Israel fall within the provisions of the Genocide Convention and acknowledged that “Gaza has become a place of death and despair”.

    An intersectional approach to Palestine

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2024 16:10


    Intersections of privilege and oppression play a large part in the current genocide of the Palestinian people and the rhetoric surrounding it.

    Germany, the Holocaust, and Palestine

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024 16:41


    In Germany's eternal search for atonement, it has instead found further imperialism that does not atone for its genocidal past - it feeds into colonialist aims that are built on the eradication of a people that have wanted nothing but self-determination. 

    Palestine and press freedom

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2024 13:50


    The challenges faced by journalists in Palestine serve as a stark reminder of the importance of protecting this fundamental right worldwide. A free press is not only essential for the people in the region but also for fostering understanding and empathy on a global scale.

    Interview with Gaza journalist Ahmad Ghanim

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2024 39:55


    "My heart is cut into pieces." This is just one of the heartbreaking things Gazan journalist Ahmed Ghanim said to me as we spoke about the state of Gaza and his work as a journalist in the area, where journalists are being killed at an unprecedented rate.

    Scapegoating the marginalised

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2024 16:00


    The reason they look for a scapegoat is simple. Whiteness is fragile and indefinable - it is constantly shifting and evolving to current and sometimes future needs and white privilege evolves with it.

    Interview with Roshan Dadoo of the BDS Coalition

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 24, 2023 61:06


    Roshan Dadoo explains the meaning of Boycott, divestment, and sanctions, as well as the political landscape of South Africa's relationship with Israel and Palestine.

    Interview with Dr Khaled Qadomi from the Palestinian resistance

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2023 26:58


    I interviewed the physician and representative of the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, about the current situation in Gaza.

    Interview with Busy Wizard Dice featuring Dumbledore and Dobby

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2023 57:51


    I interviewed Lauren from Busy Wizard Dice, who is a bespoke dicemaker from the US, making custom and chaotic dice for D&D. You can find her on social media as @busywizarddice. We talk about D&D, and being a woman on the internet, and have a few cute interruptions by Lauren's cats, Dumbledore and Dobby.

    Capitalism, colonialism, and multigenerational homes

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2023 20:54


    Extended families come with great strengths. An extended family is one or more families in a supporting web. The prevalence of extended families living together meant that things that took a village to do meant families had a village to do it with. When colonisation takes hold of our communities, the multigenerational home and our ways of living have been and are destroyed for whiteness and Western ways of living.

    Women in Palestine

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2023 20:27


    In the occupied Palestinian territory, Palestinian women and girls endure systemic discrimination, human rights violations, and the harsh consequences of occupation, with specific gender-related repercussions. These challenges are exacerbated by occupation policies such as expanding settlements, eviction threats, house demolitions (especially in East Jerusalem and Area C of the West Bank), and the 15-year blockade of the Gaza Strip.

    Queerness, communism, and the church with The Trans Narrative Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2023 66:18


    The Trans Narrative Podcast and The Bipolar Feminist speak to Ross Cheetham about the church, communism, and queerness. On a personal note, Ross is a friend whom I love dearly and is an integral part of this Patreon community and my life as a whole. He is, to this day, the longest-subscribing Patron of The Bipolar Feminist.

    From the river to the sea

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2023 26:15


    Israel is the symbolic bastion of colonial thought, sentiment, and action. A physical reminder to the global south that we are not safe from imperialism. An imperialist-colonialist project in its very essence, from its inception to its current execution.

    Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2023 20:14


    It's sometimes a feeling of suddenly becoming an observer of my own speech and actions. It's sometimes hearing voices. In some cases, the voices accompany multiple streams of thought and it feels like everywhere is loud, no matter where I turn and I have no control over it.

    Interview: Horror writer Vaughn A. Jackson

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2023 67:44


    I interviewed horror writer Vaughn A. Jackson, who is working on an anthology of short stories written entirely by marginalised people in the horror genre.

    Hypersexuality and sexual trauma

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2023 19:00


    In the framework of a trauma response, hypersexuality often comes from internalising the sexual objectification thrust upon a person through sexual trauma. This commonly starts from a young age, moulding self-worth as they normalise this belief.

    The fetishisation of Indian women

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2023 20:29


    In the realm of fetish communities, some individuals specifically seek out partners from particular racial backgrounds, objectifying and dehumanising them in the process. This not only disregards the complexity of individual identities but also reduces them to mere caricatures.

    Interview with Revolutionary Lumpen Radio

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2023 54:21


    Lumpens of the world unite with this interview by Shibby from Revolutionary Lumpen Radio talking about Marxism and Feminism. It's still strange being on the other side of the interview so enjoy my ranting.

    Claim The Bipolar Feminist Podcast

    In order to claim this podcast we'll send an email to with a verification link. Simply click the link and you will be able to edit tags, request a refresh, and other features to take control of your podcast page!

    Claim Cancel