All Videos December 2, 2020

When your body feels like a hotel room

Three people from the transgender community share how their relationship with their chests has changed over their lives.

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How sexism in design impacts our everyday lives

Join Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden as On the Rag looks at how the world around us has been built by men, for men. 

What even are boobs, anyway?

With complicated systems of lobules, ducts and tissue, boobs are a damn medical miracle. So what exactly are these things the world wants us to keep covered up? 

Where is it OK to get your boobs out?

Michèle A’Court wrestles with the eternal question – how much boob is too much boob? 

When your body feels like a hotel room

Three people from the transgender community share how their relationship with their chests has changed over their lives.

It’s time to stop being a boob about boobs

Join Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden as the latest episode of On the Rag examines the topic of boobs from every possible angle. 

We found the cure for imposter syndrome

On the Rag has been working hard to come up with a miracle treatment for those suffering from imposter syndrome – and we think we’ve found something that might actually work. On the Rag is made with the support of NZ On Air.

How do you deal with imposter syndrome?

We asked five extremely successful New Zealand women about their experience with imposter syndrome. Dame Patsy Reddy, Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Dr Siouxsie Wiles, Chelsea Winstanley and Angella Dravid explain how they experience imposter syndrome, and techniques they’ve learned to overcome it. On the Rag is made with the support of NZ On Air.

What is imposter syndrome and how do we destroy it?

For some it appears as a constant whisper, for others it’s a screeching megaphone at the most inopportune moments. How do you deal with imposter syndrome, that voice in your head saying you aren’t good enough? In this episode of On the Rag, hosts Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden wrangle with the phenomenon … Read more

How to channel your anger into power

On the Rag’s Leonie Hayden meets three women who all have things to be angry about. Lifelong activist Sue Bradford, kickboxing champion Baby ‘Pitbull’ Nansen and musician Fiona Campbell share their relationships with anger, the ways that society has perceived their anger and how they have channeled that anger for good. Made with the support … Read more

Why aren’t women allowed to be angry too?

Join Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden as they go on an odyssey of women’s rage, and find out how we can channel our anger into good. Have you ever been called a bitch? Hysterical? Stroppy? Do you find yourself suppressing warranted anger to appear more likeable? Mad as hell and don’t want to … Read more

Scientist busts marijuana myths

There are so many myths out there about weed – but which ones are actually true, and which are just lies being spread by the FBI through Minions memes? Professor Michelle Glass from the University of Otago appeared before us one night and answered some of our most burning questions about weed and women. Made … Read more

The green fairies fighting for legal weed in New Zealand

On the Rag’s Michèle A’Court visited medicinal cannabis campaigner Rose Renton and Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party co-leader Maki Herbert, two green fairies fighting for the legalisation of weed in New Zealand, to find out why they think a change is necessary – and why cannabis is a very feminine drug. Animation: Jess Zee Made with … Read more