Feminist Buzzkills

“Feminist Buzzkills” is a weekly show produced by Abortion Access Front, hosted by Lizz Winstead and Moji Alawode-El. Its starting point is current political news and the practical consequences of attacks on abortion access; the format mixes commentary, satire and interviews rather than treating reproductive justice as an abstract policy debate. The hosts bring different public-facing registers—Winstead’s comedy and political media work, and Alawode-El’s organizing and advocacy—to a shared project of making anti-abortion power legible and contestable.

The show’s humor is part of its method. Satire can puncture the respectable language used to disguise coercion, but the episodes also turn attention toward institutions, legislation and the people organizing against them. Interviews bring in activists, legal and health advocates, and cultural workers; the program’s recurring invitation is not just to agree with a position but to identify a response, whether that means learning how a policy operates, sharing trustworthy information or supporting organizing. Episode subjects change with the news cycle, so individual guests and examples should be checked against the linked episode rather than treated as a permanent series syllabus.

For listeners, a useful route is to start with an episode whose issue is already familiar, then follow the sources or organizations it names and compare the hosts’ framing with first-person accounts from people affected by the policy. This helps keep the podcast’s brisk, comic commentary connected to material conditions and local variation. The FemRes record points to the Spotify show itself, not a single episode; transcripts may be available for particular episodes, but availability is not uniform, so this page does not promise complete transcripts for the series. Consult the current Apple Podcasts listing and Abortion Access Front for current show information and episode-level details. Since the program responds to an evolving political landscape, its back catalogue can also be read as a record of how reproductive-justice organizing adapts to changing legal and media conditions. For an attentive listening session, note when a joke clarifies an imbalance of power and when it compresses a complicated issue; then follow the cited reporting or advocacy material before carrying the claim into another context.