434. Alison Bechdel in Conversation
The Guilty Feminist
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🗓️ 28 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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The Guilty Feminist 434. Alison Bechdel in Conversation
Presented by Deborah Frances-White with special guest Alison Bechdel
Recorded 21 April 2025 via Riverside. Released 28 April.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Deborah Francis White. If you're a fan of the guilty feminist, I know you'll just love the news meeting podcast from Tortus. |
| 0:07.2 | Every Monday and Friday, three journalists battle it out and try and convince the editor that their story should lead the news. |
| 0:13.8 | And this week, I joined the competition, though not really being a journalist. |
| 0:17.9 | I pitched the efforts of some senior conservatives to delay the renter's rights |
| 0:22.4 | bill. We also discussed the impact of the earthquake in Myanmar. Plus, we got into the latest |
| 0:27.4 | details of the bullying allegations against Prince Harry. If you want to know if I won with my pitch |
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| 0:45.5 | I'm finding the world quite stressful at the moment. It's not just the horrendous nature |
| 0:52.0 | of the rolling news at the moment, that genuinely is frightening. It's also |
| 0:56.2 | the cost of living, just the pace of life, the number of screens. I am constantly trying to |
| 1:03.4 | battle it. I'm trying to do yoga and meditate and think differently. Often I ended up disassociating. |
| 1:09.1 | It can sharpen all kinds of ways, stress and anxiety. |
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| 1:39.4 | Certainly, seeking therapy has helped me overcome trauma, but you don't have to have experienced major trauma |
| 1:46.0 | to benefit from therapy. Every human being has attachment issues, has boundary issues, |
| 1:52.2 | wants to be the best version of themselves, and therapy can help us do all of those things. |
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