In this episode, Ragz and Ally are joined by guest speaker Mary from SAWA, an organisation dedicated to helping women in Afghanistan. We talk about the history of Afghanistan and how women's rights got to the state it is today.

References:

SAWA Adelaide: https://sawa-australia.org/

New Hope: https://galiweiss.wixsite.com/making-marks-book/copy-of-new-hope-1

Amin Saikal, How to Lose a War, the story of America’s intervention in Afghanistan, 2024

Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, 1990.

In this episode, Ragz & Ally discuss how important it is for women to have boundaries. We live in a world where people tend to walk all over women's boundaries any chance they get, unless met with consequences.

In this episode, Ragz & Ally describe what is male centered behavior, what it looks like and how it exists in different facets of our society.

In today's episode, Ragz and Ally discuss the Netflix series Adolescence. We discuss the lack the of the most important people being centred in conversations of male violence: women and girls. We further talk about the reasons behind men and boys' violent behaviour towards women and girls and it's not due to the "lack of empathy" towards boys and men as portrayed in the show.

Title taken from the song Clara Bow by Taylor Swift

In this episode Ragz and Ally discuss beauty and wellness culture and trends and the toxicity of diet culture which feeds into the toxic cycle of self beautification

In this episode Ragz and Ally discuss the tradwife trends and how it's merely a trend being pushed by algorithms but the reality of it all is not very "trendy" or "aesthetic".

In this episode Ragz and Ally discuss the movie Mrs. (2023), how it applies to women everywhere, not just India and why it stired the plot for Indian audience.

In this episode, Ragz and Ally discuss how hypersexualization is the backbone of purity culture: one cannot exist without the other.