Over Thinking with Suzie and Leila: Recent Episodes
Suzie and Leila
No platform and no clout, we are unashamedly aspirational and somewhat deluded. At its core the podcast is about the growing pains of gaining awareness and critically thinking to a fault. Two intersectional feminists in the deep end, grappling with many different, and at times what feels like conflicting identities. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/over.thinkingpod/
Through many tangents and anecdotes, we discuss friendship and siblinghood in a very chill post mini hiatus chit chat ;)
In this week's episode we reflected on our journey's with our bodies and touched on desirability, unpacking the ways in which we were valued and devalued based on our physical bodies.
This week we're playing reflex and paying homage to the baddie who made having a podcast seem like a good idea in the first place, FLEX MAMI!!! We chat about the appeal of living in a bubble of delusion and theorise about romantic love & platonic infatuation.
This week we had our first guest on the podcast, our beautiful friend Louka (they/he). We do some light chit chat on the new queer Bachelorette, with the episodes main focus on radical lesbianism and the expectation of bisexual women to completely decentre men in their lives.
The failing lens we have adopted in the western world for viewing race/ethnicity consistently lacks nuance and prioritises perception over lineage. We discuss the labels we enjoy and find useful, as well as the ways in which hyper fixation on identity has hindered us.
Is freedom just another word for nothing left to lose? At times freedom of choice doesn't feel like liberation, but a burden. We chat about why we aren't doing the most and making moves, but instead often just shooting ourselves in the foot.
The rat race continues! Irrespective of gender, is the best thing we have in our arsenal to court people simply our ability to perform? Is 'that girl' just pandering to the male gaze veiled as the lifestyle we should all be aspiring to? We talk about how central appearance is in the queer community and the disconnect of not having 'the look' in a culture that prioritises it.
Our first episode! We talk about stepping out of your physical body to meet the demands of a hospo worker, the 'meeting new people' stage post high school and how we filter through people in an attempt to find our future bestie.