EP15: Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The wonderful co-host of the Here to Make Friends podcast and Senior Women’s Reporter at HuffPost, Emma Gray, joins Taylor to discuss her new book A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance. Post Presidential election and covering the Women’s March, Emma interviewed activists, senators, march organizations, and women from all different backgrounds to curate her book. From intersectionality, to therapy, to lady clubs, to feminist mixtapes, this book has you covered! Emma opens up about her struggle with anxiety and how to avoid losing your mind while changing the world.
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A Girls Guide to Joining the Resistance
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan. I am your host and I'm joined |
| 0:09.4 | today by Emma Gray. She is someone who is really talking the talk and walking the fricking |
| 0:16.1 | walk. She is a senior woman's reporter at Health Post and is host of the Here to Make |
| 0:21.6 | Friends Podcast, which recaps Bachelor. So hello Emma, welcome to the show. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, I'm so excited to be on your pod. I know me too. I've been looking forward to this. |
| 0:34.2 | So thank you so much for joining me. Of course. Yeah, so we are both in New York and I came |
| 0:41.5 | out specifically when I did to New York to make sure that I can make your event and your |
| 0:47.0 | event was to celebrate the launching of your book. Yes, oh, I was so excited that you |
| 0:54.7 | flew in for it. I was so touched. We had a really good time. Yeah, somehow I wrote a book. |
| 1:00.4 | You know what a freaking book. An amazing book. It's called The Girls Guide to Joining the Resistance. |
| 1:07.2 | And I love that on the book, it's on the cover. It's a girls guide to being a lady, but then |
| 1:13.2 | over being a lady is joining the Resistance. Yeah, we wanted to play off of those old |
| 1:19.4 | like etiquette guides. Like, yeah, maybe once you were taught how to be a lady, but we don't need |
| 1:24.6 | that anymore. Now we just want to teach you how to be involved. Yes, I love it. And in your opening, |
| 1:31.2 | you had a statement that said that this book is to all the girls who have been are and will be |
| 1:38.1 | brave enough to fight for other girls. And I was so touching. I just automatically already felt |
| 1:44.4 | like I was like starting off the book, just joining this group of women, just feeling so empowered |
| 1:50.8 | already from opening the book. But there's a few different chapters. I want to kind of go over |
| 1:57.2 | with you, but you know, before kind of introducing this, how did the whole idea even come up for you |
| 2:03.1 | to write a book? Yeah, so I'm a journalist at Huff Post and I do cover the Bachelor, but in most of |
| 2:10.4 | my job, what I do is cover the intersection of gender, culture and politics. I was covering the |
| 2:17.1 | 2016 presidential election and I was at the Javit Center where the Clinton campaign was on election |
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