Introducing Anthems

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

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🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Hi everyone. I'm proud to introduce Anthems.

#AnthemsWomen is a collection of 31 original manifestos, speeches, stories, poems and rallying cries written and voiced by exceptional women. It was created, executive produced and sound designed by Hana Walker-Brown, produced by Jaja Muhammad and assistant produced by Bea Duncan. The artwork is by Mars West.

Laura Dockrill is an award-winning author, illustrator and performance poet, with 13 children and young adult books under her belt. She has been nominated twice for the CILIP Carnegie Medal for her novel Lorali as well as the Darcy Burdock series, which was also shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.

Her word of the day is Sur-thrival.

CW: This episode contains discussion of postpartum psychosis.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is a special little extra something, something.
0:07.0	As you know, if you have been following me on the Instagram, by the way the background sound is my washing machine
0:16.4	and my dehumidifier because I'm doing so well, so well in life. What was going to say if you followed me on Instagram you can see my
0:27.0	my journey towards becoming an influencer and it's going quite well I feel like I'm influencing a lot I actually just
0:37.9	fell upon fell over no found. Found. I found. An article that stumbled upon, that was what I wanted to say.
0:47.1	I stumbled upon an article called Influencers are Not Your best friends, which is about how influencers want to sell a bunch of things and then get money for it without it being like ethical or like without them actually using the products.
1:02.6	Whatever.
1:03.6	I as an influencer will never do that.
1:05.7	I promise you, as you may have seen in my controversial paper chase video then I will always be honest with you about my
1:17.2	emotions to what's the things that I sell to you. Anyways this is not something
1:21.3	I'm selling it's actually very free but I will use my
1:25.0	influencing powers to direct your attention towards this amazing project. So it's called anthems. It's a collection of 31 original
1:38.5	manifestos, speeches, stories and poems that celebrates what it means to be a woman.
1:46.7	So each episode is released across International Women's Month, which is March, isn't it? In a way isn't all every month? International,
1:57.6	no it's not because of sexism. So they're all written and voiced by some I mean some actually incredible people right so the women of the receipts
2:09.2	podcast there Syrian poet and activist Lisa Lux, and oh Ruby Tando and so many more.
2:17.4	So the episode that I will allow you to listen to in a tiny bit, the one that I'm sharing
2:22.2	with, the one that I'm sharing with you today, you're going to get all of my
2:26.7	speech errors in this one because my editor is not going to touch this one because I'm just going to upload it myself.
2:33.2	Oh my God, I'm a real person now.
2:35.2	The episode that I'm sharing with you today is voiced by award-winning author and
2:41.0	performance poet Laura Docrel. So each episode begins with a word of the day and
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