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All right, shall we do this?

From W be easy Chicago, this is Nurdeth.

I'm Greta Johnson.

It's Tuesday, June 23rd, and I may as well just be living on the floor of this bedroom closet, which means this must be another episode of Nurdeth's Introverts Guide to the Good Life.

So there's a new book out called Girls Garage and it seems especially useful these days

because it's all about how to be your own repair person which means you know you don't have to

invite strangers into your home during a pandemic it's a how-to guide for all kinds of

good stuff like how to change a flat tire or fix a running toilet or pick a lock

though the other is very specific that you should only do that for good and not evil.

The book is written by Emily Pilatin and it's a super cool book but Girls Garage is also the name of a physical space in Berkeley California that Emily started and it's all about just having a place where girls can build

cool stuff. We're going to hear from one of the girls who joined Girls Garage

when she was just 10. She just finished high school and she wants to be a

construction manager when she finishes college. But first we're going to talk to

Emily about how the garage came to be, who she pictured when she wrote the book

and how she's changing the world by putting power

tools into the hands of girls. Emily, welcome to Nurdette. Hi Greta! So I'm very excited to talk to you about the literal girls garage, the amazing

like builder space that you've got in the Bay Area of California. But before we get to that I want to zoom out a little bit and talk about why you

chose the word girl because you're very clear and intentional about what that means in the introduction of this book and I feel like it's a very important sort of like level set before we have this conversation.

Yeah, and thanks for bringing that up. I know this has been really interesting conversation that's evolved for me personally and organizationally like how we thought about the word girl and how especially now I think we understand gender and identity and such complicated

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