'Peace Money' and Northern Ireland's Be-Kind Elite
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🎙️ Peaked — Episode 'Peace money' and Northern Ireland's Be-Kind elite Host: RĂłisĂn Michaux Guest: Sara Morrison Episode Overview In this episode of Peaked, RĂłisĂn Michaux is joined by Sara Morrison to explore the social, political, and cultural landscape of Northern Ireland in the post-conflict era. The discussion examines how the legacy of the Good Friday Agreement shaped a funding-dependent NGO ecosystem, particularly in the arts and voluntary sectors. Through Sara’s firsthand experience working in these sectors, the episode explores how economic structures,...
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The Faking of a Sob Story
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🎙️ Peaked — Episode Lydia Foy - The Faking of a Sob Story Host: RĂłisĂn Michaux Guest: Sean, Catherine Episode Overview In this episode of Peaked, RĂłisĂn is joined by a guest to examine the life, legal case, and cultural legacy of Lydia Foy, one of the most significant figures in Ireland’s legal history on gender recognition. The discussion moves between documentary storytelling, legal records, media portrayals, and cultural references to unpack how a single case shaped Irish law and influenced broader debates across Europe. Drawing from court judgments,...
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Femsplaining: Irish Cultural Capture with Laoise de BrĂşn
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🎙️ Peaked — Episode 5 Femsplaining: Irish Cultural Capture with Laoise de BrĂşn Host: RĂłisĂn Michaux Guest: Laoise de BrĂşn Episode Overview In this episode of Peaked, RĂłisĂn Michaux speaks with Irish activist and commentator Laoise de BrĂşn, founder of The Countess, about the changing cultural and political landscape in Ireland and Europe. The conversation is a deep exploration of how gender identity ideology entered Irish institutions. De BrĂşn explains the origins of The Countess, a grassroots feminist organisation she founded in 2020, and describes how activists...
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Inside the StrasBorg: The Council of Europe and the Conversion Therapy Ban Resolution
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🎙️ Peaked Inside the StrasBorg: The Council of Europe and the Conversion Therapy Ban Resolution Host: RĂłisĂn Michaux Guest: Annette Pacey Episode Overview In this episode of Peaked, I speak with Annette Pacey about what happened inside the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe during the recent vote on a resolution calling for a Europe-wide ban on “conversion practices.” Our conversation examines how resolutions are developed within the Council of Europe, how political groups coordinate amendments and voting strategy, and why attendance and procedural...
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What's wrong with Belgium?
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🎙️ Peaked — Episode 3 What’s Wrong With Belgium? Host: RĂłisĂn Michaux Guest: Suzy Eeckelaerts Full Episode: https://peaked.substack.com/p/premium-belgiums-vip-knickerhon-cant Episode Overview In this episode of Peaked, I speak with Suzy Eeckelaerts, a Belgian lecturer in biotechnology, about how gender identity ideology became embedded in Belgian law, public institutions, and cultural norms and why resistance to it has taken a markedly different shape than in other European countries. Our conversation explores Belgium’s legal framework on sex self-identification, the...
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Why Do So Many Trans Women Have a Humiliation Kink?
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🎙️ Peaked Why Do So Many Trans Women Have a Humiliation Kink? Host: RĂłisĂn Michaux Guest: Sissy JoyceSubstack: 🎙️ Episode Overview In this episode, I speak with Sissy Joyce, a Belgian sissy fetishist, content creator and self-identified trans woman, about the uncomfortable and unspoken overlap between identifying as a woman and masochism. We talk openly about humiliation kinks, submission, pornography, sex self-ID laws, single-sex spaces, sports, prisons, and why so many women feel instinctively alarmed by the cultural direction of gender identity politics. This is...
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The Conversion Therapy Vote
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🎙️ Peaked Reports of conversion therapy are "completely exaggerated" Host: RĂłisĂn Michaux Guest: Kurt Krickler Link (free version): https://peaked.substack.com/p/reports-of-conversion-therapy-are?r=1numbu Episode Overview Kurt Krickler is a lifelong gay rights advocate who worked with the lobbying organisation ILGA-Europe from its earliest days. He was an ILGA volunteer before they even added the L, never mind the T, the Q or the I (or the worryingly ambiguous “plus+”). He watched the organisation’s evolution from a group of scrappy...
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The First Rule of Queer Club
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Which Way, EuroTERF? Dismantling Sex Fraud in the EU
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Faika El-Nagashi: former Green MP goes TERFing in Brussels
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You wait and you wait and you wait for some handsomely-subsidised professional EU woman’s rights organisation to invite gender critical women to the table for a discussion, and then a beats them to the chase. Oh well. I would have much preferred the “gender mainstreaming” people of the (€12 million in EU funding, at ) to pull on their big girl pants and address the most important women’s issue of the past few decades, but nah. Too busy putting together powerpoints on the meaning of “gender budgeting”. And what about the women’s rights committee in the European Parliament?...
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Sex-Clowning Around in Slovakia
Host: RĂłisĂn Michaux
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Here’s the first in a series of podcast episodes on transmanifestations in different countries of the EU. I spoke to a TERF buddy Dana Vitaslova from Slovakia, who has joined the Dark Side (conservatives) so that she doesn’t have to be the the only sex realist in the village. We disagreed on gay marriage, but let it be known that such views are pretty common in central and eastern Europe.
The bit about the EU-funded project “Dragtivism” is pretty fucking wild! She shared the video of the young women (kids?) doing strip shows but I’m not going to share it because (obvious reasons).
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