
Who’s Getting Abortions? The Answer May Surprise You: Live From Netroots Nation (PT. 1) With Joyelle Nicole Johnson and Walker Fitz
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07/14/23 • 45 min
Full episode transcript HERE.
The Feminist Buzzkills take Netroots Nation in Chicago, AKA the largest gathering of progressive writers, activists, and organizers in America! And guess what? We’re delivering y’all THREE live tapings from each day we’re there! In part one of this mini-series, get an earful of us Buzzkillin’ about why we want to abort Iowa politicians, the latest update on the mifepristone case, and a couple of bright spots too!
PLUS, being at Netroots means we get awesome guests to talk to us live! Buzzkill OG and the best person to counter-protest antis, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, stopped by to blab about getting trolled online, how she started telling her abortion story in her standup act, and reminisces on some hilarious mems from touring with AAF. AND, Walker Fitz, the community and event manager for Midwest Access Coalition, is here with the full download of what it’s REALLY like to try to help patients travel for abortion and to give us some truth on gender-affirming care, queering abobo access, and more.
Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y’all. We gotchu.
ATL! LIVE SHOW ALERT!
When you’re done filling your earholes with the angelic rage-filled voices of the Feminist Buzzkills, go get your TICKETS to our LIVE ATLANTA SHOW on July 20th! You can bring the rage and your Q’s, we’ll supply the Buzzkillin’ and answers!
OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: You can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by listening to our five-part OpSave pod series and Mifepristone Panel by clicking HERE for episodes, your toolkit, marching orders, and more.
HOSTS:
Lizz Winstead @LizzWinstead
Moji Alawode-El @MojiLocks
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Walker Fitz IG: @Midwest_Access_Coalition
Joyelle Nicole Johnson IG/TW: @JoyelleNicole
NEWS DUMP:
Iowa Republicans Pass Six-Week Abortion Ban
One Senator’s Abortion Protest Leaves the Marine Corps Without a Permanent Leader
Idaho Sued Over Law Banning Adults From Helping Minors Get Abortions
Wisconsin Judge Allows Challenge to Abortion Law to Proceed
Abortion Pill Case: Where Does the Lawsuit Against the Pill Currently Stand?
GUEST LINKS:
Midwest Access Coalition’s Website
DONATE: Midwest Access Coalition
Free Emergency Contraception Request Form
Joyelle Nicole Johnson’s Website
TICKETS: See Joyelle at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal
WATCH: Joyelle’s “Love Joy” on Peacock
WATCH: Joyelle in Netflix’s Survival of the Thickest
READ: “I Had An Abortion” in Hustler Magazine
EPISODE LINKS:
SIGN OUR PETITION TO KEEP MIFEPRISTONE ON THE MARKET
Netroots Nation Website IG: @NetrootsNation TW: @Netroots_Nation
6 DEGREES: ‘Top Chef’ Reveals Kristen Kish Will Replace Padma Lakshmi as Host
Full episode transcript HERE.
The Feminist Buzzkills take Netroots Nation in Chicago, AKA the largest gathering of progressive writers, activists, and organizers in America! And guess what? We’re delivering y’all THREE live tapings from each day we’re there! In part one of this mini-series, get an earful of us Buzzkillin’ about why we want to abort Iowa politicians, the latest update on the mifepristone case, and a couple of bright spots too!
PLUS, being at Netroots means we get awesome guests to talk to us live! Buzzkill OG and the best person to counter-protest antis, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, stopped by to blab about getting trolled online, how she started telling her abortion story in her standup act, and reminisces on some hilarious mems from touring with AAF. AND, Walker Fitz, the community and event manager for Midwest Access Coalition, is here with the full download of what it’s REALLY like to try to help patients travel for abortion and to give us some truth on gender-affirming care, queering abobo access, and more.
Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y’all. We gotchu.
ATL! LIVE SHOW ALERT!
When you’re done filling your earholes with the angelic rage-filled voices of the Feminist Buzzkills, go get your TICKETS to our LIVE ATLANTA SHOW on July 20th! You can bring the rage and your Q’s, we’ll supply the Buzzkillin’ and answers!
OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: You can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by listening to our five-part OpSave pod series and Mifepristone Panel by clicking HERE for episodes, your toolkit, marching orders, and more.
HOSTS:
Lizz Winstead @LizzWinstead
Moji Alawode-El @MojiLocks
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Walker Fitz IG: @Midwest_Access_Coalition
Joyelle Nicole Johnson IG/TW: @JoyelleNicole
NEWS DUMP:
Iowa Republicans Pass Six-Week Abortion Ban
One Senator’s Abortion Protest Leaves the Marine Corps Without a Permanent Leader
Idaho Sued Over Law Banning Adults From Helping Minors Get Abortions
Wisconsin Judge Allows Challenge to Abortion Law to Proceed
Abortion Pill Case: Where Does the Lawsuit Against the Pill Currently Stand?
GUEST LINKS:
Midwest Access Coalition’s Website
DONATE: Midwest Access Coalition
Free Emergency Contraception Request Form
Joyelle Nicole Johnson’s Website
TICKETS: See Joyelle at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal
WATCH: Joyelle’s “Love Joy” on Peacock
WATCH: Joyelle in Netflix’s Survival of the Thickest
READ: “I Had An Abortion” in Hustler Magazine
EPISODE LINKS:
SIGN OUR PETITION TO KEEP MIFEPRISTONE ON THE MARKET
Netroots Nation Website IG: @NetrootsNation TW: @Netroots_Nation
6 DEGREES: ‘Top Chef’ Reveals Kristen Kish Will Replace Padma Lakshmi as Host
Previous Episode

The Dobbs Decision: A Year Later With Amy Hagstrom Miller, Allison Coffman & Phoebe Robinson (REPOST)
Full episode transcript HERE.
When a podisode is THIS IMPORTANT, it gets posted twice. While the Feminist Buzzkills are off this week, we wanted to make sure you still got your dose of obliterating the patriarchy. Send our Dobbs Anniversary Special to your friends, your enemies, and everyone in between — nobody should miss this!
WHEW. IT’S BEEN ONE YEAR SINCE DOBBS. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR BODILY AUTONOMY IS? Time really flies when you’re having ksajfk;lsekljskv!!111!!!!! What has become of our reproductive landscape since the Dobbs decision took a wrecking ball to our rights? What were the major fallouts, what were the unexpected wins and losses, and where is this fight going next? Who better than the Feminist Buzzkills and THREE KICK ASS REPRO CHAMP GUESTS to answer all these questions?!
Amy Hagstrom Miller, president and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, is here to break down this past year of oppression and gives us the inside scoop on what it’s like to be an abobo provider right now.
Plus, Allison Coffman, executive director of Amplify Georgia Collaborative, unpacks what a post-Roe world looks like, specifically across the South. She delivers marching orders on how YOU can show up for abobo access there and more!
AND comedian Phoebe Robinson is here to help us tap into our joy as we fight back. The hilarious LONGTIME FOREVER BEST FRIEND of the pod and Abortion Access Front dishes with the Buzzkills about radical self-care tips, how she fights back against reproductive stigma, and has the tea on the kings of peen.
Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y’all. We gotchu.
ATL! LIVE SHOW ALERT!
When you’re done filling your earholes with the angelic rage-filled voices of the Feminist Buzzkills, go get your TICKETS to our LIVE ATLANTA SHOW on July 20th! You can bring the rage and your Q’s, we’ll supply the Buzzkillin’ and some answers!
OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: You can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by listening to our five-part OpSave pod series and Mifepristone Panel by clicking HERE for episodes, your toolkit, marching orders, and more.
HOSTS:
Lizz Winstead @LizzWinstead
Moji Alawode-El @MojiLocks
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Amy Hagstrom Miller TW: @AmyHM TW/IG: @WWHAlliance FB: Whole Womans Health
Allison Coffman IG/TW: @AmplifyGA FB: Amplify GA Collaborative
Phoebe Robinson IG/TW: @DopeQueenPheebs
GUEST LINKS:
Whole Woman’s Health Alliance Website
Donate to Whole Woman’s Health
Donate to the Stigma Relief Fund
Amplify Georgia Collaborative’s Website
Phoebe Robinson's Messy AF Tour Dates
EPISODE LINKS:
Tracking the States Where Abortion Is Now Banned
Abortion Bans Drive off Doctors and Close Clinics
States With Abortion Bans Are Losing a Generation of Ob-Gyns
Effects on Dobbs on Maternal Health Care Overwhelmingly Negative, Survey Shows
Next Episode

It’s a Tommy Tuberville World After All: Live From Netroots Nation (PT. 2) With Dr. Allison Gill
Full episode transcript HERE.
TW: Sexual Assault.
Welcome to PART TWO of the Feminist Buzzkills LIVE from Netroots Nation, AKA the largest gathering of progressive writers, activists, and organizers in America! In part two of this mini-series, the Buzzkills are serving up all the fresh, steaming hot abobo-related tea while also dragging Senator Tommy Tuberville for absolute filth as he continues his relentless stunt holding up military nominations over the Defense Department’s abortion policies.
Who’s joining us in taking out this stank trash? The one and only, podcaster extraordinaire, Dr. Allison Gill from the Mueller, She Wrote, The Daily Beans, and Jack podcasts! She used to work on healthcare policy at the VA and wrote an Op-ed in the Washington Post foreshadowing what the devastating effects overturning Roe would do to soldiers who need reproductive care, so she’s KIND OF the absolute best person to talk to, so tune in!
Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y’all. We gotchu.
OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: You can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by listening to our five-part OpSave pod series and Mifepristone Panel by clicking HERE for episodes, your toolkit, marching orders, and more.
HOSTS:
Lizz Winstead @LizzWinstead
Moji Alawode-El @MojiLocks
SPECIAL GUESTS:
Dr. Allison Gill TW: @AllisonGill IG: @TheAllisonGill
NEWS DUMP:
Most Patients Successfully Self-Manage Medication Abortion, Study Shows
Michigan: ‘We’re Sending a Message to the State That We Respect Science’
Indiana Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Ban, Says State Constitution Gives Only Limited Protections
Religious Freedom Arguments Underpin Wave of Challenges to Abortion Bans
GUEST LINKS:
READ: Allison Gill’s Op-Ed on The Washington Post
Mueller, She Wrote Podcast IG/TW/TikTok/Post: @MuellerSheWrote
The Daily Beans Podcast TW: @DailyBeansPod
EPISODE LINKS:
SIGN OUR PETITION TO KEEP MIFEPRISTONE ON THE MARKET
FLORIDA: Sign and Put Abortion on the Ballot!
Netroots Nation Website IG: @NetrootsNation TW: @Netroots_Nation
Nimmala’s Draft Journey an Inspiration for Indian Americans Like Me
CALL TO ACTION: Send in the Gowns
Email your abobo questions to The Feminist Buzzkills
MONTHLY VIRTUAL ACTION: Expose Fake Clinics
AAF’s Abortion-Themed Rage Playlist
FOLLOW US:
Listen to us ~ FBK Podcast
Instagram ~ @AbortionFront
Twitter ~ @AbortionFront
TikTok ~ @AbortionFront
Facebook ~ @AbortionFront
YouTube ~ @AbortionAccessFront
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