UNLOCKED! Yasmin Nair on publishing, feminism and more

Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Yasmin Nair and Lyta Gold talk publishing scandals, "authenticity", cultural appropriation, feminism and more. This episode was recorded a little while back, but it doesn't devalue the conversation because variations on the specific events they describe occur over and over again, on a weekly basis, forever. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Hello, Bird Feed.
0:01.6	I am Letta Gold, your own husband's managing editor, and I am here today with an extremely
0:06.5	special guest.
0:07.2	I am so excited to talk to her once again.
0:09.7	I'm here with Yasmin Neer.
0:11.5	Yasmin is a writer, activist, editor-at-large of current affairs, of course, and one of the
0:17.8	most interesting people I've ever met, I think is a fair thing to say. Like, you know, if they were like a deodorant ad, the most interesting people I've ever met, I think is a fair thing to say.
0:21.1	Like, you know, if they were like a deodorant ad, the most interesting little in the world, I could see.
0:27.8	A strong candidate for the job.
0:30.7	I just want people to know, it's not that Lido is sitting next to me and can smell something bad that somehow the first that came to her mind
0:41.5	was deodorant ad.
0:44.4	It wasn't perfume or, you know, a fancy car, no, deodorant ad.
0:51.4	Hello, Lider.
0:52.4	Love you to be with you.
0:53.8	Hello, yes. You can sell whatever products you want.
1:01.4	This will be my fate. It'll be my fate. You know, when I'm 65, I'll be like plugging
1:07.0	deodorant on my website.
1:13.2	We'll all be doing a lot of weird things.
1:13.6	Yes.
1:16.8	As we go, yes, exactly, exactly.
1:18.0	In this country, yes.
1:24.9	So on that depressing note, so the point of today's discussion, we're going to talk about something that we touched on last time we talked, but we're going to really deep dive into it. We're going to talk about feminism generally. We're going to get
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