The Sisterhood

Laurie and Eleanor Penny discuss the crackdown on legal abortion around the world, and look at how the issue intersects with race, workers' rights and women's agency over their own bodies.Follow us and send feedback on Twitter @ns_podcasts and on facebook.com/nspodcasts.The theme music is "It feels good to be alive too" by Loyalty Freak Music, licensed under Creative Commons.

Laurie and Eleanor Penny discuss the recent wave of "revelations" about sexual violence across different industries, and explore what justice should look like when a crime has so many perpetrators.Follow us and send feedback on Twitter @ns_podcasts and on facebook.com/nspodcasts.The theme music is "It feels good to be alive too" by Loyalty Freak Music, licensed under Creative Commons.

Laurie and Eleanor Penny discuss the coming of the robots, and why AI assistants like Alexa and Siri are always given female characteristics. Follow us and send feedback on Twitter @ns_podcasts and on facebook.com/nspodcasts.The theme music is "It feels good to be alive too" by Loyalty Freak Music, licensed under Creative Commons.

Laurie and Eleanor Penny discuss the cultural significance of witches, and explore why today's feminists are keen to identify themselves with the trope. Plus, why Fake or Fortune is the best show on TV.Follow us and send feedback on Twitter @ns_podcasts and on facebook.com/nspodcasts.The theme music is "It feels good to be alive too" by Loyalty Freak Music, licensed under Creative Commons.

Laurie and Eleanor Penny debate the personal and political meanings of that overused word in feminist discourse, sisterhood. Plus, they reveal why Chicken Run is the most important radical feminist film to come out this century.Follow us and send feedback on Twitter @ns_podcasts and on facebook.com/nspodcasts.The theme music is "It feels good to be alive too" by Loyalty Freak Music, licensed under Creative Commons.

Laurie and Eleanor Penny have a lot in common. A love of politics, feminism, fiction and philosophy. An obsession with Blackadder, Rocky Horror and red pandas. Oh, and — parents.Each week on their new podcast The Sisterhood they will unpick one controversial idea in the modern political conversation.This is the secret feminist agenda for world domination that the internet warned you about.Find out more at newstatesman.com/thesisterhood or find @ns_podcasts on Twitter or Facebook.