Fridge Girl, Gen Z, bell hooks
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Ebony Louise Barrett has now become Fridge Girl, after a video she put on TikTok went viral. It was a tall, free-standing fridge falling on top of her as she danced. She's OK, but even Janet Jackson has picked up on it. How has it changed her life?
Three young women from Generation Z talk about the big social issues of the year, and why they feel the label 'woke', which is often attached to this age group, is off the mark. We have Maisie Thompson from Manchester, Jessie Stevens from Devon and Mia Manttan from London.
Inspirational quotes from an American author and feminist called bell hooks are being shared. She died this week at home in Kentucky. She was considered a trailblazer in feminism and published 40-odd books. We've got two of her admirers: Ash Sarkar and Heidi Safia Mirza.
We speak to Elaine Parker who's just set up a new app which she hopes will make online dating safer. She was inspired to create it because of the bad experience she had with a man she met online. She explains to Anita how it works.
And we continue our Food Fridays with Julie Lin MacLeod, who's the founder of a Malaysian restaurant in Glasgow’s southside. She's also opened a second restaurant during the pandemic. She talks about bringing people together through food, creating a positive working environment, and how the pandemic has changed the amount we eat for Christmas dinner.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:06.8 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
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| 0:14.0 | Fladiated. |
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| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:25.0 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.0 | BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Womons Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Good morning. I'm going to start the show today with a quote by bell hooks the American author, activist and educator who sadly died yesterday age 69. |
| 0:50.0 | If any female feels she needs anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, |
| 0:56.0 | she's already giving her way her power to be self-defining her agency and one other. |
| 1:02.0 | No black woman writer in this culture can write too much. Indeed, no woman writer can write too much. No woman has ever written enough. It's powerful stuff. And my Instagram feed has been full of these incredible |
| 1:14.5 | quotes and words of wisdom and they've been thought-provoking and inspiring and |
| 1:19.1 | it's made me want to learn more about the woman behind the words so we will be |
| 1:22.0 | talking about the great bell hooks shortly. |
| 1:24.4 | I also thought maybe we could all share the quotes which inspire us this morning. |
| 1:29.1 | So what phrase or collection of words or extract makes you pause for thoughts and really fires you up. |
| 1:36.1 | We would love to hear from you. |
| 1:37.7 | If they work for you, they may well work for us too. |
| 1:40.4 | You can contact me this morning. |
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