Why women shame each other for being happy.
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Why did Florence respond to 'what does this do for feminism?' after posting a dancing video?
I posted a video of myself dancing a week ago, expressing myself, throwing myself around my apartment, okay? And someone comments, and what does this do for feminism?
Nothing! It does nothing! It does nothing.
I think we've got such discomfort at... doing things for the sake of joy that we hate watching other women do it.
Oh, I'm so giggly. Good fucking morning. Welcome to the Florence Given Show. Do you want to know why I called it the Florence Given Show? Because I want to talk about whatever the fuck I want. And I knew that calling it the Florence Given Show gives me the freedom to allow this podcast to be whatever iteration of itself that it needs to be. You know, there will be a time where I have guests. At the moment, I'm loving not having guests and just doing this on my own schedule on the floor of my room. I really like this. But one day I will want to have guests. And guess what? The Florence Given show is still a good name for a show with guests. I was going to call it Living Deliciously with Florence Given because that's the name of my book, Women Living Deliciously.
And also Living Deliciously is like my entire life's philosophy, making everyday mundane moments as enjoyable as fucking possible. Living the most romantic life as possible, which by the way... is a philosophy that I remember and forget. I think that's the beauty of a lot of the work that I create, and probably all artists, is that you actually create your work for yourself. My work is all the stuff I need to know and the stuff that I never want to forget. So I need these versions of myself cemented in books, in podcast episodes, in my artwork. I used to make loads of artwork. That's how I became publicly recognizable was for my artwork, my illustrations, which I'm so excited to get back into this year.
It's one of my favorite forms of self-expression. Drawing women smoking cigarettes with their tits out with cunty slogans above their head. That's my whole thing. It's the thing I became successful for. It's everything that I love. I love women. You know, I actually started illustrating women because I wanted to do photo shoots of women, but I didn't... I couldn't execute them the way I wanted to. So I used to take pictures of my friends. My friend Jenny, I used to take pictures of her in my bedroom. I used to do photo shoots of her all the time. And she also has a little gap tooth. I'm obsessed with gap teeth. It's so Mick Jagger, bohemian, gorgeous, cunty, chic. Gap teeth are the sexiest fucking thing ever.
That's why all of my girls I illustrate have a gap tooth. And the ring that I designed, some of you own them. I sold them years ago in London and I will be bringing them back one day. But they have a gap tooth. All of my girls have gap teeth. And it's this little universe I created because I wanted to do photo shoots. And I went I went to fashion school to do styling. I'm obsessed with imagery and visual art. But I couldn't like tell people and explain people what I wanted to do in photo shoots. I was obsessed with Ellen Von Unworth. I used to have books and books on books of Ellen Von Unworth's photography. She's so amazing and she just loves women. And I wanted to shoot like her and I would try and shoot like her when I was at fashion school in Plymouth.
But then I started illustrating the way I wanted the shoots to look, right? And then I started doing that in art school and then pairing it with my feminist slogans. My work was very on-the-nose feminist. I would say that my work now... I would never call what I'm doing with my work now feminist because it's not on the nose politically charged, right? But my entire fucking life's philosophy is to help women live their best fucking lives and unshackle themselves from fear and shame. There is nothing I believe on this planet more than breaking the spell and hypnosis that women have been under for centuries. I want to break that spell and push women into action and into remembering the power that's always been within them.
And you could say that's feminist, but I won't.
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Chapters
3 chapters
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Why did Florence respond to 'what does this do for feminism?' after posting a dancing video?
0:00–8:01
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Why did she name the podcast 'The Florence Given Show' and what creative freedom does it give her?
8:01–12:41
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How did Florence's background in illustration and aesthetics shape her feminist messaging?
12:41–34:38