An Author Special with anti-FGM Campaigner Nimko Ali on What We’re Told Not To Talk About
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🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has undertaken her 3rd hunger strike (joined by husband Richard) and ship captain Pia Klemp, who rescued drowning migrants, faces 20 years in prison. On the other end of the news spectrum, Kylie Jenner has been criticised for her Handmaid’s Tale fancy dress party (including Under His Eye tequila) and Missguided have sold out of their 100% plastic £1 bikini. And Dolly’s got a new story from Orkney, naturally.
Today’s author is the utterly brilliant Nimko Ali OBE, am anti-FGM campaigner whose book What We’re Told Not To Talk About (But Are Going To Anyway) sees stories from 42 women across 14 countries on emotional and shocking topics including forced marriage, genital mutilation, the menopause and what it’s like to get your period when you’re homeless.
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Links
Pre-order Pandora’s book! How Do We Know We’re Getting It Right & other essays on modern life (published July 2020) https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-do-we-know-were-doing-it-right/pandora-sykes/9781785176876
What We’re Told Not To Talk About (But Are Going To Anyway), by Nimko Ali
This Will Only Hurt A Little, by Busy Philipps
All Families Are Psychotic, by Douglas Coupland
Look Alive Out There, by Sloane Crosley
Exposure, by Emily Gould for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25internet-t.html
The Making of a Millennial Woman, by Rebecca Liu for Another Gaze http://www.anothergaze.com/making-millennial-woman-feminist-capitalist-fleabag-girls-sally-rooney-lena-dunham-unlikeable-female-character-relatable/
Are only certain kinds of people deemed worthy of our compassion? By Kenan Malik for The Observer https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/15/are-only-kinds-of-people-deemed-worthy-of-our-compassion
You saw me covered in blood on a bus. But do you get outraged about all homophobia? By Chris for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/14/homophobic-attack-bus-outrage-media-white
Charlotte Church on The Adam Buxton podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-adam-buxton-podcast/id1040481893?i=1000440911416
Daisy Buchanan on emotional eating and weight loss:
Eva Wiseman on small talk
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Highlo, the weekly current fairs and pop culture podcast brought to you |
| 0:14.4 | by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:16.8 | It's been a very exciting week. |
| 0:19.2 | I read something very, very, very exciting in the bookseller. |
| 0:22.7 | For anyone who missed it, Pandora has her first book coming out. |
| 0:27.3 | Can you tell us a teensy bit about it? |
| 0:29.4 | Yes, I can, Dolly. |
| 0:30.6 | I've now become like the Melvin Brack of this juo. |
| 0:33.0 | A teensy bit. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm going full culture show on you. |
| 0:37.2 | It's a book of nonfiction essays about modern life and it's called, |
| 0:41.6 | How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? |
| 0:43.5 | Initially, when I tweeted out the news, I got the title wrong. |
| 0:46.2 | And I realised that I was late. |
| 0:48.4 | What did you call it? |
| 0:49.4 | How do you know we're doing it right? |
| 0:52.1 | It's out on the 9th of July. |
| 0:53.7 | Next year, it's published by Hutchinson Books, |
| 0:56.0 | an imprint of Penguin Random House. |
| 0:57.8 | But you can pre-order it from Waterstones Now. |
| 1:00.1 | And for one week only, I promise I will include that link in the show notes. |
| 1:04.8 | And the essays deal with womanhood, wellness, the internet, |
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