LitHERacy: An Australian Podcast for Young Women
From women who figured it out the hard way, for girls who shouldn't have to.
LitHERacy exists because I got tired of pretending I had the answers. It’s an Australian podcast built for young women who want that real stuff. Built entirely on the belief that an informed girl is a protected girl. Evidence-based. Honest. One hundred percent judgment free, because trust me, you wouldn’t believe half of what we have actually been through to get here.
No topic too big, no question too awkward.
Episodes
12 episodes
Trail-her Blazer
LitHERacy is an Australian podcast for young women, and for the women who love them.LitHERacy exists because I got tired of pretending I had the answers. Somewhere between the caring adults and the conversation I actually needed, the ...
Safe Space - A itty bitty-sode
No qualified experts this time, just Maddie, Kerry and their life experience, on the thing every other conversation stands on: the people and places where you don't have to perform.They cover the person who let you be completely yourself...
Know Thine Self - A itty bitty-sode
No qualified experts this time, just Maddie, Kerry and the topic neither of them knows a single woman who hasn’t struggled with: self-worth.They talk about becoming a different version of yourself depending on who’s in the room, and what...
Vulva La Revolution (Part 1)
What better way to launch than with a double episode on all things women's health — including the parts you were taught to be embarrassed about. In Part 1 Maddie and Dr Tamara Hunter get plain about vulvas, periods and discharge: wh...
Vulva La Revolution (Part 2)
What better way to launch than with a double episode on all things women's health — including the parts you were taught to be embarrassed about. In Part 1 Maddie and Dr Tamara Hunter get plain about vulvas, periods and discharge: w...
Account-ability
No one sits a girl down and explains her first payslip. They just hand it to her — tax gone, super gone, a tax file number to go and find — and leave her to work it out. Maya Farah and Emily Barker, co-founders of Perth financial education comp...
Plate Expectations
Somewhere along the way a girl learned her body was a project — something to shrink, to earn, to apologise for. This one takes all of that apart. Holly Moore sits with Maddie to talk about why food isn't a reward you have to earn, why "health h...
Un-Assault-ed Truth
This one is honest, and some of it is hard. If today's not the day, that's okay, it will still be here when you are.Chanel Contos posted one question on Instagram at 22. It came back with more than 7,000 testimonies, changed the nationa...
Ment-ally There
Your mind is not the enemy, even when it's keeping you up at 10pm running the same conversation for the hundredth time. This one reframes the whole thing: anxiety isn't something wrong with you, it's a signal trying to tell you something. Psych...
Weights and See
Exercise was sold to girls as a punishment. Punishment for what you ate, for what your body looks like, for not being smaller. This one hands it back as something else entirely: movement, and it's yours. Exercise physiologist and former Austral...