#226 Scarlett Curtis: It's OK To Feel Blue

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🗓️ 3 November 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Scarlett Curtis is a 23 year old English writer, journalist, and blogger. She is the curator of the Sunday Times Bestseller and National Book Award winning Feminists Don’t Wear Pink & other lies; a collection of essays by 52 women on what feminism means to them, published by Penguin in 2018. She is contributing editor at The Sunday Times Style and has had work published in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, Vogue and more. In 2017 Scarlett co-founded The Pink Protest; a feminist activist collective committed to helping young people take action online and IRL. To date they have been a part of campaigns that have changed two laws; a bill to help end period poverty and a bill to get FGM into the Children’s Act. Scarlett’s second book It’s Not Okay to Feel Blue & other lies will be published by Penguin in October 2019.

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0:00.0	This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind
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0:46.0	So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles.
0:53.7	Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.
0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to Control-Lote Delete. My guest today is the
1:06.4	wonderful Scarlet Curtis. I've known Scarlet for quite a few years now. We started
1:11.1	following each other's blogs probably around six years ago and
1:14.3	we were both writing on the internet and trying to connect and write and discover
1:20.3	what we thought about things and it's just so amazing to watch everything
1:24.8	that she's been up to and I really enjoyed this chat with her about all things
1:29.4	mental health and book publishing. Scarlet is a 23 year old writer, journalist and blogger.
1:36.4	She is the curator of the Sunday Times Best Seller and National Book
1:40.7	Award winning feminists, don't Wear Pink and Other Lies.
1:44.0	It's an amazing collection of essays by 52 women on what feminism means to them.
1:49.2	And it's such a great read.
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