#235 Ayesha Hazarika: on Online Tribalism & Multi-Hyphening

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🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ayesha Hazarika is a columnist, journalist, comedian and broadcaster who is known for her insightful and witty opinions and observations on current affairs and politics. Having started her career as a stand-up comedian in comedy basements across the country, she then took what she thought was a natural diversion into politics as a Special Adviser for the Labour Party, helping politicians on their speeches, media and policy as well as heading up initiatives on topics such as Women and Equality.

In 2018, she took her new show Girl on Girl – The Fight for Feminism on tour across the UK including a week’s run at the Soho Theatre which followed a successful two week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show looked at the current state of feminism with humour and honesty and tackled topics such as Weinstein, #MeToo and Kavanagh as well as looking at the medias obsession with pitting women against women.

In 2019, Ayesha took over as Editor of The Londoner, the Evening Standard’s Daily Diary section, plus she writes a popular weekly column for the Evening Standard as well. She was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2016 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to political service.

She was such a brilliant guest, I really enjoyed this conversation - we spoke about refusing to be put in one box, her fascinating career, and how she makes it all work. Please rate or review if you liked it <3

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-op Delete. My guest today is Aiecesha Hasrika. She is a columnist and broadcaster best known for her insightful and witty opinions on current affairs and politics.
1:16.0	Having started her career as a stand-up comedian in comedy basements all over the country,
1:21.0	she then took what she thought was a natural diversion into politics
1:25.4	as a special advisor for the Labour Party, helping politicians on their speeches,
1:30.1	media and policy, as well as heading up initiatives on topics such as women and
1:34.9	equality. In 2018 she took her comedy show Girl on Girl the Fight for
1:39.6	Feminism on tour across the UK including a week's run at the Soho Theatre, which followed a very
1:45.8	successful two-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe. I saw the show at Soho Theatre and it was
1:51.1	absolutely hilarious. The show looks at the current state of
1:53.9	feminism with humor and honesty and it tackles topics such as Harvey Weinstein
1:59.0	Me Too and Kavanaugh as well as looking at the media's obsession with
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