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Dec 2018
5m 28s

Rebecca Traister

Wnyc Studios
About this episode

Every public fear is a private fear, too.

Rebecca Traister is a writer at large for New York Magazine and the author of Good And Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger from Simon & Schuster. 

Join the "10 Things That Scare Me" conversation, and tell us your fears at 10thingspodcast.org

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