#40 Laura Bates (Founder of Everyday Sexism) - Do We Need An Internet Police?

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 11 October 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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I interviewed the amazing author and The Everyday Sexism Project founder Laura Bates at Cheltenham Literature Festival on 9th October 2016 for a very special live episode of this podcast. Laura's new book GIRL UP tackles body image, relationships and social media pressures. It's a no-nonsense survival guide to growing up as a 21st century, empowered girl. We talk about sex education, body image, social media, feminist societies, educating boys and the power of speaking up. For this episode we are on stage at Cheltenham Ladies' College, Parabola Arts Centre and engaged with a lovely and warm audience of 300 people. It was such a special evening and I hope you enjoy this extra special 40th episode which is an hour long.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Control-Alt Delete this is episode 40. I can't believe I've done 40 episodes now that is crazy
0:07.9	And this 40th episode is actually so exciting this is a live recorded episode with Laura Bates the founder of the
0:15.9	everyday sexism project and the author of Everyday Sexism and Girl Up. So this year I was actually a guest curator at Cheltenham Literature
0:25.2	Festival which is such an honor and such a interesting and fun weekend and I
0:30.0	ended the weekend on a Sunday evening at an amazing venue which was the
0:34.3	Cheltenham Ladies College Parabler Art Center I think I said that right and yeah
0:40.4	it was just such an interesting discussion I'm not to rabbit on too much because I'm just going to start playing it. I introduce Laura properly during the event and yeah, we talk about Laura's amazing new book, Girl Up.
0:53.9	It's a great, fun, illustrated, but very serious guidebook,
0:57.8	really for the 21st century girl.
1:00.3	And talks about social media, body image, careers, sex, you name it, all the stuff I'm interested in.
1:07.5	So loved it, hope you love it, and here it is. Hi everyone.
1:13.0	This is a
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1:22.0	Hi everyone. This is such a lovely venue. we're very happy to be here and this is a very exciting thing for me as well
1:27.8	Laura Bates everyone
1:30.3	So Laura is a writer. I'm sure you all know Laura because you're here and she's amazing,
1:35.0	but she founded the Everyday Sexism Project back in 2012 now.
1:40.0	And the website shared women stories of sexism and unfortunately they were happening every day.
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