Episode 466: Anita Hill

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Anita Hill is a professor and author. Her new book is Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence. "I really do feel that my life now has purpose. And my responsibility really is to live out that purpose as much as possible. The reason that this isn’t entirely daunting is that I realize I am one individual. And that the issues will not depend on me entirely. … But I also realize that every person who has the opportunity should be involved, and that includes me." Show notes: @AnitaHill 00:00 Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence (Viking • 2021) 01:00 Because of Anita (Pineapple Street Studios • 2021) 01:00 Getting Even with Anita Hill (Pushkin Industries) 01:00 "Believing Is A Book Only Anita Hill Could Have Written" (Danielle Kurtzleben • NPR • Sep 2021) 33:00 "The Bad Guys Are Winning" (Anne Applebaum • The Atlantic • Nov 2021) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.2	Hello, welcome to the Longform podcast. I'm Max Sonskin, here with my co-hosts Aaron Lammer,
0:42.4	Evan Ratliff, gentlemen. Hello. Hey, Max. Hi guys. This week on the show is Anita Hill.
0:51.4	I need a hill. I did not see that coming. Anita Hill is on the show. She just wrote a book. It's
0:56.2	called Believing, our 30-year journey to end gender violence, and it's sort of a book on like any
1:03.0	we've talked about on the show before. It's reported. It's also personal. She talks about her own story
1:10.4	and sort of leaves it through. And then it's also making an argument and trying to inspire people
1:18.1	to take action. It's like many, many books in one. It's really ambitious. And I talked to her about
1:24.5	the process of writing it and reporting it and how you balance the reporting and making an argument.
1:32.3	And then also talked to her about this moment in her life. So the book coincided with the 30-year
1:37.4	anniversary of her testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings. And I think in some ways it's an
1:43.2	attempt to try and make sense of those 30 years and to reflect what she has learned over that
1:50.2	time. And the anniversary was also a moment. So Pineapple Street, where I work, we put out a podcast
1:56.8	with the meteor called Because of Anita. And it featured, among other things, an interview
2:01.9	with Anita Hill and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. And then I should also say, because we're here on
2:07.0	a podcast, that Anita Hill has her own podcast. It's coming out next year. It's called Getting Even
2:13.0	with Anita Hill. So anyway, yeah, it was a different conversation than we sometimes have on the
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