Phoebe Lovatt speaks to Danielle Pender, founder of Riposte magazine and author of Watching Women and Girls – a new collection of short stories which explores the ways that women are looked at, the ways we look at each other...and the ways we look at ourselves.
A reading list to accompany this conversation can be found at public-library.online
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