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May 2019
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S1 Ep1: Thinking Pink: What Feminism Mea...

Women’s Prize Podcast/ Bird Lime Media
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Fiction + Feminism. Take your seat in the audience next to Zing Tsjeng at this week's Baileys Book Bar. Hear bestselling author and Women’s Prize for Fiction Founder Director Kate Mosse speak to journalist and author of the bestselling Everything I Know About Love, Dolly Alderton, feminist campaigner and author of Feminists Don’t Wear Pink, Scarlett Curtis, and UK Content Manager at Acast and executive producer of podcasts including Mostly Lit, Clarissa Pabi. They cover intersectionality, romantic love, cancel culture, and share some brilliant book recommendations.


Books covered include:

Blond Roots by Bernardine Evaristo

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy


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