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Jasper Peach is a trans, non-binary and disabled writer, speaker and parent. They are passionate about equitable access and inclusion, focused around the dismantling of misplaced shame via storytelling. Their written work has been published in The Age, HireUp, The Big Issue, Archer, The Guardian, Verandah, Australian Poetry Journal, Meanjin, ABC and SBS online.
With a background in Auslan interpreting, broadcasting and civil celebrancy, writing has continued their personal trend of being all about communication and community. Their first book, You’ll be a Wonderful Parent, was published March 2023 by Hardie Grant and is a celebration of rainbow families of all kinds.
For more from Jasper you can find them on instagram @jasperpeachsays or find Jasper's book here
For more from me you can find me @clairetonti on instagram or at my website www.clairetonti.com
Editing: RAW Collings
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Lucy Jones is an investigative journalist and author. She has written extensively on culture, science and nature. Her articles have been published on BBC Earth and in The Sunday Times, The Guardian and the New Statesman. Her first book, Foxes Unearthed, received the Society of Authors’ Roger Deakin Award. She has also written the book Losing Eden which was long-listed for the Wainwright Prize and received a Society of Authors’ K Blundell Trust Award. The Times and Telegraph named it a book of the year (2020) and the paperback became a Times' bestseller (2021).
In her latest work Matrescence Lucy Jones presents her radical examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and body. These seismic effects are largely unrepresented across literature and the arts, and speaking about motherhood in anything other than pastel hues remains, for the most part, taboo. Jones offers an urgent examination of the modern institution of motherhood and seeks to unshackle parents from oppressive social norms.
For more from Lucy Jones you can head to her website
To find out more about me and the work I am doing please head to https://www.clairetonti.com or https://www.instagram.com/clairetonti/
And if you or someone you know needs support COPE has a brilliant directory where you can find resources in your area.
http://www.cope.org.au
You can also contact the show at [email protected]
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This is Part Two of my conversation with writer, feminist thinker and broadcaster Clementine Ford.
Clementine Ford is a Melbourne based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. She is the author of four books, Fight Like A Girl, Boys will be Boys, How We Love and het latest book I Don’t the case against marriage. She has been a columnist for Fairfax’s Daily Life and a regular contributor to The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Clementine's writing explores issues of gender inequality and pop culture. Her ability to use both humour and distilled fury to lay bare ongoing issues affecting women has earned her a huge and loyal readership amongst both women and men. Clementine’s work has radically challenged the issues of men’s violence against women, rape culture and gender warfare in Australia, while her comedic take on casual sexism and entertainment has earned her a reputation as an accomplished satirist.
Clementine’s work has also appeared in the Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Girlfriend, CLEO, Sunday Life and The Big Issue. Clementine has been a guest on ABC’s Q and A, Channel Nine Mornings and is a frequent contributor to Channel Ten’s The Project. As a speaker and presenter, Clementine has appeared at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, ACMI, the Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Writers Week, the Brisbane Writers Festival, the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, the Newcastle Writers Festival, the National Young Writers Festival, the Reality Bites Literary Festival, Women of Letters, Cherchez La Femme and the City of Melbourne’s Conversations series. Additionally, she is regularly invited to speak at schools and universities. Clementine has been a guest on ABC’s Q and A, Channel Nine’s Mornings and is a frequent contributor to Network Ten’s The Project.
Clementine’s number one mission is to speak openly and honestly about the state of the world as we live in it. She hopes to give other women the language and confidence to articulate their own feelings of frustration and anger.
For more from Clementine Ford head to her instagram or find her work on Substack
To find out more about me and the work I am doing please head to https://www.clairetonti.com or https://www.instagram.com/clairetonti/
And if you or someone you know needs support COPE has a brilliant directory where you can find resources in your area.
http://www.cope.org.au
You can also contact the show at [email protected]
Editing: RAW Collings
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Clementine Ford is a Melbourne based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. She is the author of four books, Fight Like A Girl, Boys will be Boys, How We Love and het latest book I Don’t the case against marriage. She has been a columnist for Fairfax’s Daily Life and a regular contributor to The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Clementine's writing explores issues of gender inequality and pop culture. Her ability to use both humour and distilled fury to lay bare ongoing issues affecting women has earned her a huge and loyal readership amongst both women and men. Clementine’s work has radically challenged the issues of men’s violence against women, rape culture and gender warfare in Australia, while her comedic take on casual sexism and entertainment has earned her a reputation as an accomplished satirist.
Clementine’s work has also appeared in the Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Girlfriend, CLEO, Sunday Life and The Big Issue. Clementine has been a guest on ABC’s Q and A, Channel Nine Mornings and is a frequent contributor to Channel Ten’s The Project. As a speaker and presenter, Clementine has appeared at Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre, ACMI, the Sydney Opera House, Adelaide Writers Week, the Brisbane Writers Festival, the Ubud Readers and Writers Festival, the Newcastle Writers Festival, the National Young Writers Festival, the Reality Bites Literary Festival, Women of Letters, Cherchez La Femme and the City of Melbourne’s Conversations series. Additionally, she is regularly invited to speak at schools and universities. Clementine has been a guest on ABC’s Q and A, Channel Nine’s Mornings and is a frequent contributor to Network Ten’s The Project.
Clementine’s number one mission is to speak openly and honestly about the state of the world as we live in it. She hopes to give other women the language and confidence to articulate their own feelings of frustration and anger.
For more from Clementine Ford head to her instagram or find her work on Substack
To find out more about me and the work I am doing please head to https://www.clairetonti.com or https://www.instagram.com/clairetonti/
And if you or someone you know needs support COPE has a brilliant directory where you can find resources in your area.
http://www.cope.org.au
You can also contact the show at [email protected]
Editing: RAW Collings
Social Media: Maisie JG
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TONTS. On The Road.
This episode is part of series of episodes that were recorded on the road as part of my tour of the UK and Ireland last year. In this first on the road episode I talk to the incredibly kind Sabrina Kennedy Charge nurse at the Bristol New Horizon Mother and Baby Unit. The unit is the smallest in the UK and is a 4-bed South West regional service providing treatments and interventions to meet the physical and mental health needs of mothers and their infants. Our 24-hour inpatient service supports, assists and supervises each mother to help develop the relationship with their infant. This episode is so precious to me as Sabrina explains so beautifully what it's really like inside this kind of facility and the nature of the work, caring for mothers at risk who are in deep pain and in need of compassion and support. I felt so privileged after this episode to be able to sing for the women in the unit. Such a beautiful memory.
To find out more about me and the work I am doing please head to https://www.clairetonti.com or https://www.instagram.com/clairetonti/
And if you or someone you know needs support COPE has a brilliant directory where you can find resources in your area.
http://www.cope.org.au
You can also contact the show at [email protected]
Editing: RAW Collings
Social Media: Maisie JG
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Larissa is a freelance illustrator with many strings to her bow. In 2021 she decided to couple her creative powers with her entrepreneurial mindset and founded the bereavement care charity Possum Portraits. This charity provides bereaved Australian parents with keepsake portrait drawings of babies lost to miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death free of charge.
You can find more from Larissa at https://www.larissa-reinboth.com and find more about her incredible work with Possum Portraits at https://www.possumportraits.org
And from Claire including updates on live events and her music you can head to https://www.clairetonti.com
or https://www.instagram.com/clairetonti/
You can contact the show at [email protected]
And if you or someone you know needs support for perinatal mental health the following organisations are great resources:
https://www.sands.org.au
https://www.cope.org.au
https://www.gidgetfoundation.org.au
Editing: RAW Collings
Social Media: Maisie JG
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In a very special episode of TONTS. I deep dive into the wonderful world of Bluey podcast with Bluey expert and podcast host Mary Bolling. Mary is a journalist, mum and kids culture enthusiast, and one half of the Gotta Be Done podcast, deep-diving Australian juggernaut Bluey (and parenting, pop culture and everything else!) since 2019. In typical TONTS. and Bluey fashion we talk about the themes in Bluey that so closely match our own experiences. Two mums deep diving into the highs and lows of parenting, grief, loss, miscarriage, the power of story and the vital role of play and silliness. What a joy!
You can find more from Mary Bolling on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/marytbolling/ and listen to her podcast Gotta Be Done here https://www.blueypod.com
https://www.clairetonti.com
https://www.instagram.com/clairetonti/
You can contact the show at [email protected]
Editing: RAW Collings
Social Media: Maisie JG
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Tess Lehman is a photographer, creative, proudly queer and a mother of 3 living in Newcastle, Australia. Her story is honest and raw and an example of what happens when we have the courage to really live a creative life and find ourselves with vulnerability, humour and joy. In this episode we talk about Tess' coming out story and why it took her to midlife to acknowledge she is queer, what it was like to completely change her life, single parenting, motherhood and identity and also her ADHD diagnosis. We also deep dive into her love of boiler suits. Of which I definitely share. Who doesn't love a onesie with pockets?
You can find more from Tess Lehman at https://tessdoes.com/ and on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/tessdoes
https://www.clairetonti.com
https://www.instagram.com/clairetonti/
You can contact the show at [email protected]
Editing: RAW Collings
Social Media: Maisie JG
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Sally Douglas and Imogen Carn met after the sudden deaths of their mothers only months apart. Their experiences led them to launch a podcast, and their no-holds-barred, relatable approach to talking about grief sparked a growing following of people eager to have honest conversations about what it really feels like to deal with loss.
Good Mourning is a compassionate survival guide for anyone dealing with grief - the kind of book Sal and Im wish they'd had to help them through the dark times. Here they shine a light on the many ways grief can impact our lives (hello ugly crying, exhaustion and 'grief brain'). Along with expert advice from clinical psychologist Tamara Cavenett and warm words and insights from hundreds of others who've experienced grief, the authors offer practical tips on coping with isolation and loneliness, navigating grief at work, managing milestones and so much more.
Whether you're one month in or ten years down the track, Good Mourning will help you make sense of life after loss - and know that you're not alone.
You can find more from Sal and Im at https://goodmourning.com.au
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https://www.instagram.com/clairetonti/
You can contact the show at [email protected]
Editing: RAW Collings
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TONTS. podcast is back for season 4. Launching tomorrow with the first episode of season 4. See you there :)
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Trigger Warning - this episode discusses themes of emotional abuse and trauma. If this brings anything up for you at all please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14
Tickets to the live album launch are available here
The last episode of season 3 for 2022 and I'd like to share my single Fear to Feel with you and tell you the story of La Loba the wolf woman.
You can find subscribe to more music from me and listen to Fear to Feel on Spotify I'd love you to.
Editing – RAW Collings, Claire Tonti
Music – Claire Tonti
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Part Two of this beautiful conversation with author, storyteller and presenter Holly Ringland.
For more from Holly you can find her here https://hollyringland.com/
For more from Claire you can find her here https://www.clairetonti.com/
Show credits:
Editing – RAW Collings, Claire Tonti
Music – Avocado Junkie
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Holly Ringland is a writer, storyteller, and television presenter. Her award-winning, bestselling debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, has been published in 31 countries/territories and will stream globally in 2023 as a seven-part series on Amazon Prime, starring Sigourney Weaver. In May 2019, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won The Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year.
In February 2020, Holly signed a new two-book deal with HarperCollins Publishers Australia. Her second novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding has just been published and is a stunning second novel of myth and magic and sisterly love.
Throughout 2020, Holly travelled Australia to film Back To Nature, a visually stunning 8-episode series she co-hosted with Aaron Pedersen. Back To Nature aired to critical acclaim on ABC TV in 2021. All episodes are now streaming on ABC iView. Prior to the pandemic, Holly divided her time between Australia and the UK, where she had Australian native flowers growing in both places. In 2020 she bought a 1968 Olympic Riviera caravan, named ‘Frenchie’, her Plan B writing office based on Yugambeh land, southeast Queensland, in which Holly wrote Esther Wilding’s story.
For more from Holly you can find her here https://hollyringland.com/
For more from Claire you can find her here https://www.clairetonti.com/
Show credits:
Editing – RAW Collings, Claire Tonti
Music – Avocado Junkie
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Freya Lawler (naturopath) joins me again to discuss how we can care for our fertility throughout our lives and also what to do when we are faced with subfertility and the challenges to conceiving. Even if you have had children or don't plan to this conversation is so important as Freya has so much to share about our cycles and our bodies and also particularly about men's health and men's fertility. Unsurprisingly men are less likely to have their fertility explored. We talk through specific foods and herbs that can help on this road to conceiving and also how we can support and nurture women in the aftermath of miscarriage and abortion.
If this episode has brought anything up for you and you are in Australia you can find support at the following organisations:
1800 Respect - confidential counselling and support: 1800respect.org.au
Beyond Blue - support for anxiety, depression and suicide prevention: beyondblue.org.au
PANDA - support for recovery from perinatal anxiety and depression: panda.org.au
For more from Freya Lawler you can head to www.freyalawler.com.au or Instagram @freyalawlernaturo
For more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetonti
Show credits:
Editing – RAW Collings, Claire Tonti
Music – Avocado Junkie
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Album Launch Tickets available here https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/claire-tonti-album-launch-tickets-460602724147
Freya Lawler joins me again today to deep dive into Endometriosis, a condition that effects so many women and is still chronically under diagnosed and often misunderstood. Freya Lawler is a bachelor qualified nutritionist, naturopath and natural fertility educator specialising in reproductive health, fertility and hormones. She is passionate about helping people achieve whole body wellness through a root-cause approach to women's health. In this episode we talk specifically about the paths to diagnosis for Endo, the common symptoms, what to look out for in our teenage girls who may be getting their period for the first time, methods of treatment and life style and dietary approaches that can really make a difference in you or someone you know suffers from this condition. Freya also has some wonderful resources you can access from her website and an Endometriosis starter kit that will help equip you with lots of strategies, good quality, well researched support and knowledge.
For more from Freya Lawler you can head to www.freyalawler.com.au or Instagram @freyalawlernaturo
For more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetonti
Show credits:
Editing – RAW Collings, Claire Tonti
Music – Avocado Junkie
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Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, most recently The Younger Wife and her new release The Soulmate. Her novel, The Mother-In-Law (2019), has been optioned for a TV series by Hollywood actress and producer, Amy Poehler. Drawing on the good, the bad and the downright odd of human behaviour, Sally writes incisively about family, relationships and identity. Her domestic thriller novels are laced with quirky humour, sass and a darkly charming tone. Sally's novels are available around the globe in English and have been translated into 20 languages. She has sold more than one million books worldwide. Sally lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband Christian and her three children.
For more from Sally Hepworth you can head to www.sallyhepworthauthor.com or @sallyhepworth on instagram
For more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetonti
Show credits:
Editing – RAW Collings, Claire Tonti
Music – Avocado Junkie
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My guest today is Lizzy Hoo WHO is many things – a writer, noodle enthusiast, designer, actor, sports lover, and rescue greyhound owner. Lizzy is also a stand-up comedian who has rapidly become one of Australia’s most exciting new voices. Lizzy only started doing stand-up in 2017, originally as a way to gain more self-confidence. Safe to say it worked out pretty well. She quickly found herself an NSW State Finalist in the national RAW Comedy competition. The very next year she was invited to perform at the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival at the Sydney Opera House, with her spot broadcast on Network Ten and Foxtel’s Comedy Channel. In 2021 she performed at the Oxfam Gala and to sold out audiences at Melbourne Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival.
For more from Lizzy Hoo you can head to www.lizzyhoo.com
For more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetonti
Show credits:
Editing - RAW Collings, Claire Tonti
Music - Avocado Junkie
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Sam Buckingham is an alternative pop, folk singer songwriter based in Byron Bay, Australia. In May 2020, after receiving a Resilience Fund grant from the Australia Council, Sam Buckingham setup up a makeshift studio in her living room to start pre-production on her new album Dear John.
Co-produced with long time collaborator Kent Eastwood, the album was originally going to be mostly acoustic and stripped back - a very traditional “singer-songwriter" creation. A week after pre-production began, Buckingham woke in the middle of the night and wrote a song that would completely change the course of the album.
The album stemmed from the breakdown of a relationship but, at its core, Buckingham insists that Dear John is anything but a break-up record.
“The relationship itself was emotionally and psychologically abusive. It was so toxic, but I didn’t know that while I was in it. I thought I was just doing something wrong” says Buckingham. “This album isn’t about the relationship though, it’s about me. I had to unlearn so much of what I thought I knew about myself, about love, and about being a woman in this world. These songs document my process of healing, learning and rising up to be the woman I want to be.”
With Kate Bush, Solange, Coldplay, Cyndi Lauper and Phil Collins all serving as reference points for the sound on what would become Dear John, Buckingham studied hip hop, soul, rock, pop and feminist literature to create this stunning body of work.
The album’s first single Something More, released April 2021, slapped fans in the face with a captivating one-take video that saw Buckingham marching down a Byron Bay laneway commanding and demanding respect. She launched the indie-pop anthem with a six-date sold-out tour last year (no small feat in the height of the pandemic). This was followed by invitations to tour alongside Kate Miller-Heidke, Paul Kelly, Tim Freedman, The Whitlams and Ben Lee.
The next single, Let It Burn, was shared exclusively with hundreds of fans that signed up to a five day online experience, where Buckingham invited the select group into her process of grieving, healing and rising up.
Dear John was released 8th April, 2022 and debuted at #2 on the AIR Independent Album Charts.
1800 Respect - confidential counselling and support: 1800respect.org.au
Beyond Blue - support for anxiety, depression and suicide prevention: beyondblue.org.au
PANDA - support for recovery from perinatal anxiety and depression: panda.org.au
05:18 Start of Interview
18:59 Rich Girl: Getting Back to Who You Are
26:22 Dear John: The Story of Sam's Relationship (tw: domestic violence)
46:44 Something More: Fighting For The Truth
52:16 Untamed by Glennon Doyle
01:21:42 Choosing Self Love
For more from Sam Buckingham you can head to www.sambuckingham.com
For more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetonti
Show credits:
Editing - RAW Collings, Claire Tonti
Music - Avocado Junkie
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My guest today Claire O’Rourke is an author, environmentalist and advocate, with more than two decades working in journalism, communications and campaigns across Australia and around the world. Claire helps others take action on climate change, currently as Australia Energy Transformation Program Co-Director at The Sunrise Project. Claire's first book, Together We Can, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2022.
Previously Claire was National Director of Solar Citizens, a community-led renewable energy advocacy organisation. A former journalist, Claire has extensive experience advocating for social impact, including driving communications for the Every Australian Counts campaign for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and as a senior leader at Amnesty International Australia.
Claire’s father worked at coal fired power stations all his career, and now she spends her days working on how we can replace them in time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and ensure that workers, communities and First Nations peoples share the benefits as the world quickly moves to clean, renewable energy.
https://claireorourke.com/climate-action/
https://greenelectricityguide.org.au/
https://www.marketforces.org.au/superfunds/
https://350.org.au/
https://indigenouspeoplesorg.com.au/
For more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetonti
Show credits:
Editing - RAW Collings, Claire Tonti
Music - Avocado Junkie
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My guest today is David Martin Harris. They are the CEO of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, they have worked for the Australian centre for contemporary art, as the chair person and co-curator of SEVENTH gallery, they have been the co-recipient of an FBI Smack Award for best NSW arts program and they were also on the board of directors for Mooghalin Performing Arts. David has also worked for the West Australian Ballet and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and while all of this is really impressive credentials what I loved so much about this interview was David’s story shared in their keynote address to a group of young queer visual artists and their families at a Monash Gallery of Art exhibition.
To find out more about the Melbourne Queer Film Festival you can head to https://mqff.com.au/
For more from Claire Tonti you can head to www.clairetonti.com or instagram @clairetonti
Show credits:
Editing - RAW Collings, Claire Tonti, David Martin Harris
Music - Avocado Junkie
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