Book Club Meets: Activism, misogyny, and Page 3, with Jo Cheetham

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Don’t underestimate the power your voice has. This is the key message to come from Happy Place Book Club read, Killjoy, which tells the incredible true story of the No More Page 3 campaign, and the unlikely everyday women who made a generational change possible.

Fearne chats to author Jo Cheetham about their early memories of Page 3, street harassment, and how cultural messages can affect the way we relate to our own bodies.

They also talk about acknowledging anger and channelling that rage into something productive, and Jo shares how self-sabotage nearly stopped her writing this book in the first place.

Join the Happy Place Book Club on Instagram @happyplacebookclub – DM your messages and voicenotes about April’s read, The List Of Suspicious Things, to have your thoughts shared on the podcast!

...and don’t worry, there are no Killjoy plot spoilers in this episode!

This episode features extracts from the audiobook of Killjoy, narrated by Jo Cheetham, with thanks to Picador.

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0:39.0	It was a proper protest, like you'd see on TV.
0:42.0	Welcome to the Happy Place Book Club with me Fern Cotton.
0:45.0	I was in shock.
0:47.0	Today, Kill Joy by Joe Cheetam.
0:49.0	In the center was a group of women who appeared to be leading the event.
0:53.0	A woman with curly hair was shouting into a megaphone, next to some people holding a giant birthday card,
0:59.0	covered in pictures cut out of newspapers.
1:02.0	One side held all the photos of women taken from every tabloid paper
1:06.1	for six weeks. The other side showed all the photos of men from the same newspapers.
1:13.0	Across the top it said, spot the difference.
1:16.0	The women were naked, topless, or wearing underwear or bikinis.
1:21.0	All so young, all with the same body type. Almost all of them were white.
1:28.3	The men were footballers, cricketers, rugby players, politicians.
1:34.3	They were wearing sports kits and suits,
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