Dear 2020, can we just start over?

I'm Dornow Porter and I've been thinking about life, in lockdown, mostly from a cupboard.

My new book, Life in Pieces, is full of thoughts on everything from bad hair and parenting

to things we can control and the things we can't.

When everything's falling apart, we'll piece it back together.

Life in Pieces is out now in hardback, e-book and audiobook.

Hi, I'm Dawn O'Porter. Welcome back to So Lucky, where each week I go deep with my guest and explore all of the sides to all of their stories.

The highs and lows, their hopes and fears, they're lucky and their unlucky moments.

My guest for you this week is the writer Scarlett Curtis, curator of best-selling feminists don't wear pink and other lies.

She is also the co-founder of the pink protest.

I love talking to Scarlett because as she says herself in this chat,

we're both the sort of people who go deep and weird with people straight off.

And we very much do that here by the shedload.

We talk about Scarlett's harrowing experiences with illness as she was a very young kid

and living with chronic pain.

And if you don't know that about

Scarlett, then it's worth a bit of research because she really has risen through something truly,

truly devastating, so awful for a young girl to go through anything like that. We also talk about

her background. Her parents, a film director Richard Curtis and broadcaster Emma Freud,

and how that gives her an insight into, and as she sees it, a responsibility director Richard Curtis and broadcaster Emma Freud, and how that gives

her an insight into and as she sees it, a responsibility to talk about privilege. I would like to say

that I know Scarlett well and she works so hard. I admire her because, let's face it, what she was

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