Anonymous Was A Woman Podcast

Anonymous Was A Woman Podcast


Latest Episodes

Authority
February 21, 2021

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: Is there a bigger question in our current age than who do we trust and why? Jamila and Astrid consider what authority means to them these days. Chapter 2:

Jiveny Blair-West: On love
February 17, 2021

Jiveny Blair-West, a dating coach, co-wrote How to Make the Biggest Decision of Your Life with her father, psychiatrist George Blair-West. In this interview, Jiveny talks Jamila and Astrid through how the younger generations can make one of the biggest d

Love
February 14, 2021

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: In this Valentine week of Hallmark cards and awkward dates, Jamila and Astrid talk about love - the real, lasting, messy and sometimes boring kind that’s on

Kylie Maslen: On confusion
February 10, 2021

Kylie Maslen's debut, Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with invisible illness, is a revelation. Released in late 2020, in early 2021 the work has already been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. In this interview, Kylie talks to Jamila

Confusion
February 07, 2021

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider confusion, and how books - especially self-help books - can sometimes be just what you need.  Chapter 2: Astrid introduces Celes

Brit Bennett: On belonging
February 03, 2021

Brit Bennett is an American writer with a brilliant track record. Her debut novel The Mothers (2016) was a New York Times best-seller, as was her second novel, The Vanishing Half (2020). In this interview, Brit talks to Jamila and Astrid about her brilli

Belonging
January 31, 2021

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous of a Woman. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what it means to feel like you belong. Chapter 2: Jamila introduces Top End Girl, Miranda Tapsell's 2020 memoir. Chapter 3: Ast

Bonus: Christmas Special 2020
November 29, 2020

Have a grumpy uncle you need to buy a Christmas gift for? Or what about your mum who has read everything already? Or do you want something uplifting for the person you love who is struggling? Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are here to help with all the C

Rick Morton: On justice
October 07, 2020

Rick Morton joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider justice in both our personal ives and the society we live in.  Rick is an award-winning journalist and a Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper. His memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt was shor

Justice
October 04, 2020

Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider how justice - that greatest of concepts - appears in recent fiction and non-fiction.  Chapter 1: What does justice have to do with books? Chapter 2: Jamila considers 'wokeness' and racial justice in her reading o