Farzah Draki

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148 total appearances

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

I don't think it's... Hard relate.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

Yeah, so she was here for the Broadside Festival in Melbourne and that's where I saw her and kind of first fell in love because she was in conversation with Zadie Smith and it was a really interesting chat between them and sort of highlighted generational divides between female authors.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

They had very different perspectives.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

So when I saw this copy on my desk,

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

that Kate had left for me, I was so excited because when I was in South Korea, when I was in Seoul and I spoke to a gender studies academic about the Escape the Corset movement and women's movements overall, she mentioned this book.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

And so when I came back, I was desperately trying to find it and it wasn't yet released in Australia.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

She was basically saying that this book has had an enormous impact on women in Korea, like to the extent where it has been part of women's movements, sort of the discussions that are being had in South Korea at the moment around things like Me Too, things like illegal spy cam filming, which is something that's discussed in the book.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

And just in general, the experience of being a woman in South Korea at the moment.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

It's a serious epidemic right now where people are putting spy cams in places like public toilets or even toilets at work.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

And sometimes those videos will end up on pornography websites.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

Oh, wow.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

There's been a number of very high-profile cases of it.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

Yeah, and it's, you know, the women who have been subject to that have had serious mental health, you know, problems as a result.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

And late last year there was two reported suicides.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

Oh, God.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

So it's a serious issue at the moment, but it's not something that we generally would hear about in the West.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

But this book, so...

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Yeah, and a really interesting thing to note is that Kim Ji-young was the most common name for South Korean women in the year 1982.

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

Oh, really?

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In the wings, on the reservation, inside a woman's rage

And that's the reason why she picked it because she's trying to depict the everyday experience of women in South Korea.

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