Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.

A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.

I'm Amina Tussaud.

And I'm Anne Friedman.

On today's agenda, we're talking about music, history, and feminist memory

with the writer and producer Jessica Hopper.

How's the book rating going?

Don't even pretend your brain isn't fried too.

Maybe your brain isn't fried too.

Maybe you're doing great.

My brain definitely is on fire, but you know, I'm just trying to conserve my energy.

So in the interest of conserving energy, we have another amazing guest this week who is

doing the hard thinking for us.

I talked to the author, producer, and journalist Jessica Hopper, who's writing I read going

back to like early days of blogging, like early internet days.

And you will hear us talk about this in the interview, but one reason why I wanted to

have her on the podcast is that she is, I think the only person in my life who was a

total stranger to me, just someone who's work that I read.

And at a personal low point, I wrote her an out of the blue email, like I said, total

stranger, and just like said a bunch of personal stuff about my life.

Like I have no idea.

This is not a behavior I can don't.

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