Anita Diamant, THE RED TENT and PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by best-selling author and journalist Anita Diamant to discuss her latest nonfiction book, Period. End of Sentence., and the fight for menstrual justice. Anita explains how this book — which grew out of the Academy Award-winning documentary of the same name — feels like a culmination of her work as a columnist and novelist, and offers action steps we can all take to help combat period poverty both at home and around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
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| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
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| 0:31.2 | Instagram at Zibby Owens and my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:40.1 | Anita Diamond is the author most recently of period, end of sentence, a new chapter in the fight for menstrual justice. |
| 0:46.3 | She is a novelist, journalist, essayist, and the author of five guidebooks to contemporary |
| 0:51.0 | Jewish life. She is most known, well, I think her most known book is |
| 0:55.8 | called The Red Tent, which was published in 1997, which I loved at the time. Anita was born in |
| 1:02.9 | Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Newark, New Jersey until she was 12 when she moved to Denver, |
| 1:07.5 | Colorado. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree |
| 1:11.4 | in comparative literature and earned a master's in American literature from Binghamton University |
| 1:15.5 | in upstate New York. In 1975, she moved to Boston and began her journalism career, writing for |
| 1:21.3 | the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Globe, and Boston Magazine before expanding out to parenting, |
| 1:26.6 | parents, McCalls, and Ms. |
| 1:28.6 | Her feature stories and columns covered a wide variety of topics from reported essays to |
| 1:34.0 | first person essays and more. |
| 1:35.9 | Her first book was the New Jewish Wedding, published in 1985, and she wrote five other |
| 1:41.2 | guidebooks, including the new Jewish baby book, living a Jewish life, |
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