Emma Hardy
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1,077 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4 Jun
Emma Hardy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We want to see them as monsters.
We want it to be something to be feared, like feeling too much, becoming too angry, devouring too much, consuming too much.
We want that to be like a parable of tragedy.
We want that to be a monstrous thing that we avoid.
And I started to wonder if my own anger might feel more manageable
If I wasn't so scared of it.
And I think that's kind of the question I was grappling with in the book as well is, am I actually scary because this illness is terrifying?
Or is it the cultural ramifications of this illness and the expectations of femininity that are making this illness a lot more scary than it actually needs to be?
Yeah, it was kind of the thing where...
Well, one of my first awarenesses of this tension was like, oh, my mum would be so mad to hear that I'm like taking time off work because I'm about to get my period.
Like my mum would be so upset by that because when she was going through the workplace, that's what she had men tell her all the time in the office that like, oh, she's probably on a whatever.
And she felt like PMS or PMDD were, well not PMDD, she didn't have the language for that then.
But she thought that PMS was like a construct made by men to keep women out of work.
And she'd kind of been pushing against that her whole life.
And so then for me to be feeling so much stress and tension right before I got my period, it was kind of like I was a feminist nightmare and it was like embodied in me.
I think that whenever we have like a point of tension like that, it's not helpful to try and hide it or bury it.
Or I don't find it interesting personally to try and hide it or bury it because unpacking that tension is how we understand, is how we come to understand the stories that shape how we've come to understand the world.
Like by unpacking the stories of or by unpacking the tension of is this like a feminist horror or am I saying the taboo kind of anti-feminist thing of women are unfit for work.
By unpacking that I could see more clearly the layerings of like medical misogyny that made it harder for women to actually access treatment or have their pain be heard.
And I could also kind of start to separate it from this kind of girl boss ideal of being able to be perfectly fit and functional all the time.
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