In this wickedly funny and disarmingly honest episode of The Scarlet Frequency, The Tasty Terf takes us on a nostalgic romp through her lifelong love affair with bread and cheese — two ride-or-dies who eventually turned into dietary double agents.

It’s a story of childhood comfort, adult betrayal, and the bittersweet grief of giving up the foods that once felt like home. From Velveeta sandwiches to gluten-free despair, My Two BFFs: Bread and Cheese is equal parts eulogy and stand-up routine, delivered with biting humor and tender self-awareness.

Read aloud by Peeja Blackbird in her role as The Tasty Terf, this episode reminds us that sometimes, the most sacred separations aren’t romantic — they’re culinary.

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In this charged and luminous episode of Red Tent Storytellers, filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar joins Peeja Blackbird and Nat La Pirate for a conversation that unfolds like a manifesto in motion — equal parts grief, grit, and gallows humor. From her childhood in patriarchal India to her evolution as one of the fiercest feminist documentarians of our time, Vaishnavi takes us through the making of Behind the Looking Glass — a film that shatters the silence surrounding the wives and children of men who claim to be women.

What begins as a discussion of filmmaking becomes something far more sacred: a reflection on the inheritance of womanhood, the solitude of resistance, and the quiet miracle of hope. Vaishnavi speaks of cleaning floors while men dined, of learning to listen to her own body, of creating art from the ashes of erasure. She reminds us that hope isn’t fragile — it’s defiant. It takes courage to imagine a freer world while living inside a broken one.

This episode is a love letter to women who refuse to disappear — the storytellers, the fighters, the dreamers, and the mothers still daring to believe that art can be weapon and balm at once.

Vaishnavi Sundar is an Indian filmmaker, writer, and activist — founder of Lime Soda Films and the global platform Women Making Films. Her body of work, spanning over a decade, exposes the cracks in culture where women’s voices have been buried: from But What Was She Wearing? — India’s only documentary on workplace sexual harassment — to Dysphoric and Behind the Looking Glass, which dare to center women erased by gender ideology.

Driven by what she calls “humor and rage,” Vaishnavi has built her career without film-school privilege — learning by doing, failing loudly, and refusing to bow to censorship. In this episode, she speaks of filmmaking as both labor and liberation: “It felt like birth,” she says, recalling her first film. “It was sweat, exhaustion, and joy — proof that I existed.”

Her work is not entertainment; it’s testimony. Her art is a torch passed from hand to hand — proof that women everywhere are still here, still seeing, still filming.

Vaishnavi reminds us that every woman has a story — and every story deserves to be heard, unfiltered and unafraid.

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When a woman like Kara Dansky speaks, the air sharpens.

In this intimate and unflinching episode of The Red Tent Storyteller, Kara—lawyer, author, and unapologetic defender of women’s sex-based rights—lays down her journey from idealistic public defender to battle-hardened feminist warrior.

From her working-class upbringing in Ohio to the halls of Johns Hopkins and the ACLU, Kara’s story is one of awakening, rebellion, and refusal to be silenced.

Through laughter, memory, and hard truth, she reminds us that every woman’s voice matters—that sisterhood is not a brand, but a birthright. She shares how betrayal by institutions once trusted has become fuel for a global movement of women who will not yield. Her calm precision and razor wit slice through the noise, offering both a reckoning and a rallying cry.

This episode isn’t just conversation—it’s legacy work. It’s the sound of one woman reclaiming the word woman, and inviting all of us to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the storm.

Kara Dansky is an attorney, feminist advocate, and author of The Abolition of Sex and The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls. A former public defender, Stanford Criminal Justice Center executive director, and ACLU campaigner, Kara now devotes her life to documenting and resisting the erasure of sex-based rights.

Her voice carries both lived compassion and legal firepower—proof that intellect and conviction can coexist with grace.

From defending female inmates to challenging federal policy, Kara has become one of the most recognizable and respected truth-tellers in the modern women’s rights movement. Her Substack, The TERF Report, serves as both archive and arsenal in the ongoing cultural war for truth.

In this conversation, Kara dismantles false narratives, reclaims language, and reminds women everywhere: we are not fringe—we are the frontline.

Every woman has a story. Kara’s is a masterclass in courage.

If her words lit a spark in you, don’t let it fade.

Follow and support Kara Dansky’s work on Substack and grab her books, The Abolition of Sex and The Reckoning, wherever you read.

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