S2E16: Women's Day ft. Women in Business, Tech, Media & Advocacy - a podcast by Raj Thomas, Rowan Emslie and Warren Peace

This week we've pulled together a really special podcast in celebration of International Women's Day. The gang held Q&As with 8 women in business, tech, media and advocacy roles to discuss what feminism means today, what they hope it can become, and how we can all better engage with it.

We had a really great, diverse set of responses representing a range of feminist thought. A definite theme was just how considered, positive and inclusive feminism can be - contrary to its caricatured representation in the media.
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Our participants:

Áine Mulloy - co-founder of Girl Crew, a social media app for women and girls (Twitter: @AineMulloy @GirlCrewHQ App: bit.ly/2EYw8y3)

Genista T-A - works in publishing, book-worm, has views on important stuff, friend of the pod (Twitter: @geninldn @Bloomsburybooks)

Jasmine Andersson - investigations journalist at (LGBTQ+) Pink News, and co-founder of The 2nd Source tackling harrassment in media (Twitter: @the__chez @PinkNews @The2ndSource)

Jennifer Riggins - tech marketer, and work-at-home first-time mum of a baby boy (Twitter: @jkriggins)

Jo Osborne - Founder of SciApps and SkinNinja, an app uncovering ingredients in women's skincare products (Twitter: @thisisJoOsbourne @SkinNinjaApp, App: https://skinninja.com/)

Season of the Bitch - Socialist Feminist Podcast from the USA
(Twitter: @seasonoftheB, Site: https://www.seasonoftheb.com/).
From 'The Coven' we were joined by Laura (Twitter: @socialistwillow) and Kellen (Twitter: @hellenkeniford)

Sophie Yates Lu - Fundraising and Events for Positive Money, and the What Women Want 2.0 survey (Twitter: @sophieyateslu @positivemoneyUK @WhatWomenWantXX)
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Favourite women:
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Justice of US Supreme Court (Book: https://goo.gl/2RXseN)
- Rosa Luxembourg - socialist feminist (Article: https://goo.gl/rwQKmH)
- Emma Goldman - anarchist feminist (Anarchism & Other Essays: https://goo.gl/jwkYuf)
- Assata Shakur - civil rights activist (Autobiography: https://goo.gl/EKUuEJ)
- Angela Davis - socialist feminist (Women, Race & Class: https://goo.gl/pRgSjr; Clip: https://goo.gl/NGGirm)
- Bell Hooks - intersectional feminist (Feminist Theory: https://goo.gl/Jv6NxK)
- Roxane Gay - feminist cultural critic (Bad Feminist: https://goo.gl/SPcSrr TEDTalk: https://goo.gl/JDXGnN)
- Judith Butler - third-wave feminist (Gender Trouble: https://goo.gl/PnzsVk)
- Ella Baker - civil rights activist (Bio: https://goo.gl/Rwpuyo)
- Rosalind Franklin - chemist contributed to the discovery of DNA (Bio: https://goo.gl/py1cDm)

Favourite Books:
- ‘Girls to the Front’ by Sarah Marcus - history of Riot Grrrl (https://goo.gl/u7n6NY)
- ‘No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies’ by Linda Kurber - study of women’s obligations (https://goo.gl/Xs2AKF)
- ‘A Room of One’s Own’ by Virginia Woolf - reflections on women in literature (https://goo.gl/StjdHc)
- ‘The Bridge Called My Back’ editors Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldua - anthology by women of colour (https://goo.gl/mJDqiy)
- ‘The Eyes Were Watching God’ by Zora Hurston - African-American feminist novel (https://goo.gl/ecve7z)
- ‘Hidden Face of Eve’ by Nawal El-Saadawi - women in Arab society (https://goo.gl/52QRzj)
- ‘Sister Outsider’ by Audre Lorde - intersectional feminist essays (https://goo.gl/tLmZPr)
- ‘Why I’m No Longer to White People About Race’ by Reni Eddo-Lodge - reflections race discussion (https://goo.gl/nqicA3)
- ‘Fat is a Feminist Issue’ by Susie Orbach - psychology of dieting (https://goo.gl/XySu15)
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