Anonymous Was A Woman Podcast

Anonymous Was A Woman Podcast


Latest Episodes

We are back for Season 4
May 27, 2021

Anonymous Was A Woman with Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards is a conversation on books by, and about, women. Season 4 will start on Monday 31 May 2021. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod, and don't forget to follow Jami

Glyn Davis: On freedom
March 24, 2021

Glyn Davis AC is CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation, which works to end intergenerational poverty. He was previously Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and remains Distinguished Professor of political science at the Australian National Universi

Freedom
March 21, 2021

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what freedom means to them - and it is the freedom to read and the freedom to write. Chapter 2: Jamila brings Colson Whitehead's

Sarah Krasnostein: On possibility
March 17, 2021

Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster, as well as her 2021 work The Believer: Encounters with Love, Death and Faith. The Trauma Cleaner was awarded the Victorian Pr

Possibility
March 14, 2021

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: After weeks considering the harder topics, Jamila and Astrid strike a more positive note and look to the possibilities that may be just around the corner.

Nadia Owusu: On barriers
March 10, 2021

Nadia Owusu is a Brooklyn-based writer and memoirist. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post’s The Lily, Literary Review, Electric Literature, Epiphany and Catapult. Aftershocks is her first book.  CHAT WITH US Join our disc

Barriers
March 07, 2021

Today Astrid Edwards is joined by Oli Lathouris to consider the barriers we find in our own lives through the lens of fiction and non-fiction. Chapter 1: Astrid and Oli consider the barriers we find in our own lives through the lens of fiction and non-fi

Nardi Simpson: On pain
March 03, 2021

Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay writer, musician, composer and educator from North West NSW freshwater plains. A founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has been performing nationally and internationally for 20 years. Her debut novel, Song

Pain
February 28, 2021

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: After the recent events in Australia's Parliament house, Jamila and Astrid threw what they were going to talk about out the window and instead made space to

Louise Milligan: On authority
February 24, 2021

Louise Milligan is an investigative reporter for ABC TV's Four Corners and the author of Cardinal, which won the Walkley Book Award and broke massive international news preceding the court case involving one of the most senior members of the Catholic Chur