You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 117.

I'm your host Thomas Smith, and today I am very excited to bring you

Jacqueline Friedman.

She is an author of a few books and some really good articles that caught my attention.

We talk about some of them.

So for example, a Vox article she wrote on the Aziz Ans Sorry situation went incredibly viral, very widely read, and also she's been

published in the New York Times opinion section on consent. She's an excellent

writer, thinker, and a perfect person to talk to around this time about me too and consent and yes

means yes, and much more. With that said, let's get over to the interview.

Jacqueline, thank you so much for coming on.

It is great to talk to you.

Oh, thanks for having me. So would you mind for people

who aren't familiar just going into a bit of your background and how you became interested

in writing on the issues you like to write about these days.

Oh gosh, how long have you got?

Yeah, we've got a while. I'm interested.

It's good.

It really was about kind of weaving the disparate threads of my interests and passions together over the course of my adulthood.

So I always was a writer.

I, you know, in junior high school would sit out out the back of my house near the pond and

like write terrible poetry and I was editor and chief of my high school literary

magazine so I was always interested in the writing part and I was also always kind of a social

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