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How to Take on Politics with June Diane Raphael & Jessica Yellin

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Feminism, Gender, Media Analysis, Body Politics, Patriarchy, Intersectionality, Society & Culture, Cultural Commentary, Beauty Standards, Internet Culture, Womens Rights

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When politics feels like dumpster fire, how do we still take it on without losing our minds? Actor and activist June Diane Raphael is here to help us reconsider what running for office looks like and how to get started. Plus, former CNN chief White House correspondent Jessica Yellin tell us how to engage with political news, without all the yellin'.


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0:00.0

I talk about your news diet and I think that what people need isn't, we gotcha.

0:08.4

The whole day is going to happen, crazy things, tweets, notifications, turn it off, turn

0:13.5

down the noise, we gotcha.

0:16.5

I think that there is a real need for that because otherwise, it's like a fire hose coming

0:21.7

at you all the time.

0:30.0

Hey y'all and welcome to And Lady Like where we find out what happens when women break

0:47.5

the rules.

0:48.5

I'm Caroline.

0:49.5

I'm Kristen.

0:50.5

And Caroline, how would you describe your news diet?

0:53.9

Like, is it a fire hose of nourishing fruits and veggies?

0:58.0

I'm gobbling it up.

1:00.0

More like a tray of pizza rolls right out of the oven that's still too hot to eat, you

1:04.7

know, like zero nutritional value.

1:07.5

And it's burning the shit out of the roof of my mouth because I'm so hungry and I just

1:10.0

devour it all.

1:11.0

I am really relating to this food metaphor.

1:13.7

But seriously, political news these days feels like it's always dialed up to a 10.

1:19.0

It is going to burn the shit out of the roof of your mouth, but at the same time, the

1:23.2

stakes are too high to ignore.

1:25.3

Yeah, I mean, between, honestly, the alerts on my phone, 500 newsletters in my inbox,

1:31.3

and being on Twitter every second of the day, it feels harder than ever to strike that

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