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Apr 2021
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Clementine Ford | An icon of Australian ...

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
About this episode
Clementine Ford has been writing columns and books about gender issues for more than a decade. Her books Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys have become bestselling feminist bibles, and she has built a huge online community of women and girls who take inspiration and comfort from her honest and personal posts. In this conversation, she opens up about body image, sex, death and dating … all the big things.


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