SIM Ep 351 IWD20 6: Vivienne Hayes and the Women's Resource Centre

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

For this, the International Women’s Day Eve episode in our series of IWD 2020 interviews, Mick caught up with fierce feminist, relentless activist and CEO of the Women’s Resource Centre, Vivienne Hayes. They chat challenging systemic sexism, class, the power of solidarity, the vital importance of women’s spaces and Pay Back The Tampon Tax – the Women’s Resource Centre’s excellent campaign for the government to give the cash raised by VAT on tampons and sanitary pads to the women’s sector. Which it promised to do. Then didn’t. No, we're not surprised either. It’s a campaign well worth getting behind, we're sure you’ll agree, and you’ll find ways to get involved at www.wrc.org.uk.

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
0:08.0	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.
0:15.0	Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Standard Issue for all women.
0:35.0	For all women.
0:36.0	Hello and welcome to day six of our International Women's Day 2020 series of interviews,
0:41.0	although you can of course listen to them in any order you please,
0:44.8	were not your real mums. What's happened so far? Well, I'm glad you asked.
0:49.7	Hannah and Jen chatted with the incredibly talented and utterly charming Amelia Bulmore.
0:54.6	I came over all optimistic feminists with inspirational activists, author of Five Rules for Rebellion,
1:00.1	an all-round top woman Sophie Walker. Jen enjoyed talking aging stars,
1:05.0	lonely women and parrot impressions with national treasure and a
1:08.1	tiny hat Sue Pollard. The filmmaker and actor Andrea Heaton
1:12.0	chatted to me about her new play Smile Club,
1:14.2	which imagines a government drive that exists to tame unruly women.
1:17.6	And the brilliant Helen Lewis told Jen and I all about her excellent new book,
1:21.5	Difficult Women,
1:22.6	the History of Feminism in 11 fights.
1:25.2	They are, if I do say so myself, cracking treats for your ears.
1:29.6	Still to come, Hannah chats with Samma Habib
1:31.8	about what it's like both to be LGBT in Muslim communities
1:35.4	and a Muslim in LGBT communities. But for this, the International Women's Day Eve,
1:40.8	yeah, yeah, we're making it a thing, episode. I caught up with First Feminist,
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