Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

I'm Amina Tussaud, and I'm Anne Friedman.

On this week's agenda, we take a little trip around the world from a feminist angle,

something we don't do often enough.

First to Russia, where we talk about political implications of the World Cup and some of

our favorite protests at the games, to China, where women factory workers are getting their

networking group shut down, to Nepal, where menstruation taboos are leading to the deaths

of girls and women, and finally to Egypt, where we learn about an amazing program to combat

street harassment.

Hello, I'm kind of froggy, I listen to myself croak that intro, and I'm, oh, you sound

great to me.

Thanks, Peru.

How's it going?

Yeah, you know, it's good, just trying to live my life.

I have to tell you that I'm wearing the result of what I feel like is your influence in

my life, which is to say, I finally purchased a Kempton Hotel robe on the internet.

Yes, man, you could have just grabbed one from my house.

You know, I have three, right?

I know, but here's the thing.

I wanted, there's like, I did not buy three, three separate people know how much I love

them and gift them to me.

And having a good robe collection when you work from home is actually kind of dangerous.

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