Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend a podcast for long distance besties everywhere. I'm I mean at two so and I'm Ann Friedman

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I need you to give me one more sentence than Ola

Also, I love that I say this like my accent is this. Give me one more sentence

Not one more sentence then Ola wait. Yeah, I want you to go further in your greeting to me. How much does

Thank you

Wow, and now you are the one trolling me with a thank you response. Yes

Thank you

You know, I just I just want to push that like you know the boundaries of uh, you know of us using our foreign languages on this podcast

Bienvenido is that call your girlfriend

Thanks for speaking Spanish with me because we just missed women in translation month

I mean this is so classic us where we're like what a great idea. We are so excited to talk about

Literary translations of women's work translation done by women

You know we are big book nerds and then low and behold the whole month goes by and we've missed that what is actually women in translation month

But you know what still a worthy topic and we are still gonna talk about it

Give your reasons

Here's my problem with like you know all these like XYZ months

If we gave people the credit that they deserved we would not be having to like silo people like celebrating people into like specific moments of the year

So I mean not to rant out, but it makes me annoyed that we have like months for things that are cool and important

I hear you. I mean so in this particular case

It is not something that is like has long been on the hallmark catalog women in translation month

No, I mean it was started as like an activist thing in 2014 a book blogger named Maytale Redzinski

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