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Ten of the greatest period moments on TV

There’s no need to make a song and dance about it – or is there?

By Tara Ward | 21st July, 2022

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Watch every episode of On the Rag here

Join Alex Casey, Michèle A’Court and Leonie Hayden as they wrestle with some big issues in The Spinoff's feminist web series On the Rag.

By The Spinoff | 25th August, 2021

The best of The Spinoff’s video series

The best of The Spinoff’s video series

Need something else to watch this week? Try these.

By The Spinoff | 4th March, 2021

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On the Rag: How sexism in design impacts our everyday lives

Summer reissue: 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.

By On the Rag | 24th January, 2021

Women and stuff

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On the Rag: It’s time to stop being a boob about boobs

Summer reissue: Join Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden in the latest episode of On the Rag as they examine the topic of boobs from every possible angle.

By On the Rag | 23rd January, 2021

Women and stuff

Alex Casey, Michele A’Court and Leonie Hayden grapple with the phenomenon that is imposter syndrome. (Photo: On the Rag)

On the Rag: What is imposter syndrome and how do we destroy it?

Summer reissue: Join Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and a lineup of incredibly successful Kiwi women as they confront their imposter syndrome once and for all.

By On the Rag | 22nd January, 2021

Women and stuff

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On the Rag: Why aren’t women allowed to be angry?

Summer reissue: 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.

By On the Rag | 21st January, 2021

Women and stuff

On the Rag: The need for weed

On the Rag: The need for weed

Summer reissue: Join Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden as they find out what exactly we’re voting on in the cannabis referendum, and discover how weed is a women’s issue.

By On the Rag | 20th January, 2021

Women and stuff

On the Rag: Let’s talk about media representation

On the Rag: Let’s talk about media representation

Summer reissue: Our feminist webseries On the Rag returns to dissect representation in the media and who is still being left behind when you turn on the telly.

By On the Rag | 19th January, 2021

Women and stuff

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On the Rag: The murky world of wellness and influencers

Summer reissue: Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey and Leonie Hayden are back for a second season of On the Rag, and where better to start than with the mysterious, exhausting world of wellness?

By On the Rag | 18th January, 2021

Women and stuff

Alex Casey, Michele A’Court and Leonie Hayden grapple with the phenomenon that is imposter syndrome. (Photo: On the Rag)

Best of 2020: On the Rag versus imposter syndrome

All this week we're looking back on some of the best videos published on The Spinoff in 2020. Today, On the Rag destroys the dreaded imposter syndrome.

By On the Rag | 18th December, 2020

Women and stuff

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On the Rag: Things you probably didn’t know were made by women

In the latest episode of On the Rag, we look at the intersection of gender and design, including this list of women who invented incredible things and then were promptly forgotten about.

By On the Rag | 9th December, 2020

Women and stuff

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On the Rag: 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.

By On the Rag | 7th December, 2020

Women and stuff

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On the Rag: Where is it OK to get your boobs out?

In our latest episode, Michèle A’Court wrestles with the eternal question – how much boob is too much boob?

By On the Rag | 20th November, 2020

Women and stuff

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On the Rag: When your body feels like a hotel room

In the latest episode of On the Rag, we asked three people from the transgender community to share how their relationship with their chests has changed over their lives.

By On the Rag | 18th November, 2020

Women and stuff

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On the Rag: It’s time to stop being a boob about boobs

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

By On the Rag | 16th November, 2020

Women and stuff

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We found the miracle cure for imposter syndrome

On the Rag has been hard at work trying to come up with a foolproof method for overcoming imposter syndrome. This is what it's come up with.

By On the Rag | 23rd October, 2020

Women and stuff

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Five successful New Zealand women on how they deal with imposter syndrome

Dame Patsy Reddy, Chelsea Winstanley, Dr Siouxsie Wiles, Angella Dravid and Jennifer Ward-Lealand on how they work to conquer imposter syndrome in their own lives.

By On the Rag | 22nd October, 2020

Women and stuff

Alex Casey, Michele A’Court and Leonie Hayden grapple with the phenomenon that is imposter syndrome. (Photo: On the Rag)

On the Rag: What is imposter syndrome and how do we destroy it?

Join Michèle A’Court, Alex Casey, Leonie Hayden and a lineup of incredibly successful Kiwi women as they confront their imposter syndrome once and for all.

By On the Rag | 20th October, 2020

Women and stuff

Sue Bradford holding the now-infamous photo of her in a choke hold by a police officer. Kōtare Trust, Wellsford, 2020. (Photo: On the Rag)

I wanna be like Sue Bradford

Activist and former politician Sue Bradford has been called an 'angry radical' most of her life. Leonie Hayden caught up with her to find out how she uses that anger for good.

By Leonie Hayden | 17th September, 2020

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