Unboxing Women

Unboxing Women


Latest Episodes

UW #49: Staying true to yourself with self-managed Dark Pop artist Salt Ashes
June 23, 2022

Salt Ashes, aka Veiga Sanchez, burst into the electronic/dance music scene with her signature dark synth-pop melodies and zeitgeist club sound - all of which was inspired by Giorgio Moroder’s blend of disco and epic dark atmospheres.  We have a chat

UW #48: Mansplaining: The Art of Assuming You're the Smartest One There
June 16, 2022

How? Why? We hate it and made an episode about it. We try to figure out why (a lot of) men do this and we come to some surprising conclusions.  Let us know the best mansplaining that you have had to endure. If there is anything you would like us to t

UW #47: The Adele Controversy: the Grammys go Non-Binary
June 09, 2022

Adele was accused by the media of being transphobic after saying she was proud to be a female artist when the Grammys had just announced they were pulling the plug on gendered categories.  We dive into a conversation about Adele's past touring and vo

UW #46: The Healing Power of Telling Your Story with The Albrecht Authors
June 02, 2022

Mary and Katie, an aunt and a niece who share the same abuser in their family, wrote a book about their experiences.  The idea arose from wanting to help bring mental illness into the light and in the process they found that by talking about it, they

UW #45: Part III: How Disney perpetuates homophobia through their Villains
May 26, 2022

Women above 30 and camp men should be feared! This is Part III of our Disney series where we dissect the choices made by Disney with regards to Disney villains.  Who did they want children to be afraid of and how has that changed over the years? Part

UW #44: Part II: Who are the real Disney Heroes?
May 19, 2022

Part II of our Disney analysis series where we have a good look at who the real heroes are! Is it the princes that come to the princesses aid, or do they just take the credit? How much saving do the men really do?  Part III: "Disney Villains" and Par

UW #43: Part I: The evolution of Disney Princesses
May 12, 2022

In this episode we analyse the evolution of the Disney Princesses from 1937 up till now.  How realistic are they for their time and how toxic are yesterday's princesses to today's children?  Join us for Part I of our series on Disney movies. &nb

UW #42: Shocking secrets in radio programming and playlisting with Simone
May 05, 2022

Simone has 6 years of experience at Deezer under her belt as a Senior Manager Editorial & Label Relations, where she was responsible for a myriad of editorial playlists and campaigns for popular artists.  She spills the tea on sexist radio progra

UW #41: Maika finally admits to fangirling
April 28, 2022

Maika has always said she is not a "fangirl". But what does that mean exactly and is that totally true?  In this episode we uncover what the term really means and compare it to its' male counterpart. We mention #Britneyisfree - listen to our episode

UW #40: What is wrong with our nipples?
December 16, 2021

We explore the double standards and misogyny in the Terms of Service of TikTok and Instagram.  Did you know Instagram explicitly bans female nipples ONLY?   Women are getting shadow-banned, banned, deleted for all kinds of things that men are also doing