Losing our feminist mothers
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
And I think that's really important to know. We can't just sit around and hope for the best anymore. It is time to take up the candle. Hold the candle. Light the candle. Whatever you do with candles.
Hello and welcome to today's episode of the moment. Good to be here. Goodness me, it's been a busy time and I'm still trying to understand it all really, 'cause I've been in the midst of launching my book, which actually this is where it gets more complicated, comes out in paperback form. Tomorrow so there's been a couple of weeks lag. If you've been listening to the podcast you'll know why. There was a hack at the distribution arm of Hatchette, and so the concrete copy I keep calling it, but it's the paperback copy hasn't been available in shops. So hopefully it'll be in shops this week and all your pre orders and things like that will come your way, but I just wanted to thank everyone who's come along so far to the launches.
They've been incredible. Like I genuinely don't know how to express my gratitude to everyone who's shown up. It's been amazing and To everyone who's read the book so far, whether it be the digital version or listen to the audio version that I recorded. It's so lovely. To hear it. that you're loving it out there and that it's touching a nerve.
What recent events sparked Myf's tribute to Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan?
I think it's hit a real raw nerve. Especially for those of us who are Gen X women who've Grown up, I think, in a time where, you know, the whole point of the culture in Generation X was that we were Outside of the mainstream. We critiqued mainstream culture. That's where grunge emerged. That's where dance music emerged. Because of creating a culture that was opposite to to what it what it seemed to become very capitalist, very commercial culture. of the eighties, very money driven. And I think over the years, somewhere along the way, I lost that belief that I could critique culture and that I could be opposite in terms of my views. And It's nice and life affirming to realise that that that's still in all of us, a lot of us that grew up in that time and
That maybe it's time to look hard at the world that we're living in and state our views with a lot more confidence than perhaps we have been, 'cause there's been a a a great forgetting of where we come from. And I saw the film the documentary film Silenced, which kind of focuses on a very dear friend of mine, Jennifer Robinson, who's a human rights lawyer. She was Julian. Assange's lawyer, Amber Heard's lawyer in the UK trial, which was one and This documentary is about how legal systems around the world work against victims and it's an essential watch. Please go and see it. Send everyone you can to it. But again, another reminder to me that the work hasn't been done in so many ways in terms of women's rights and the rights of those in marginalized communities and
groups, there's so much that still needs to be done and we need to get our fight back. So I'm feeling a lot more confident about the book being out in the world and less worried about, I guess, the reaction to it because I well, it's been helpful that the reaction has been really positive and thank you for that, because it's it's nice to see how it's landing. out in the world, but also it's been good to be reminded that it's time to mobilise, it's time to get together, it's time to try and fight for changes. that we were promised a long time ago and seem to have been wound back recently. And by promised I don't mean it was like we deserve it either. You've got to fight for it. But all we're asking for here is equality.
That's it. It's nothing more. No one's kicking anyone else out or acting as if anyone's better. It's just a request for equality. So Yeah, if you wanna get a copy of this in get a bit angry with me, do it. Middle rage. If you're listening, I'm I just held up my book then. And frankly, I'm sick of looking at me 'cause I'm on the cover. And I see it everywhere now and it's weird. Oh, and just between you and me, this is the time. Now that the book's out in shops that I won't go into a bookshop. I can't. It's so weird.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:26
2
What recent events sparked Myf's tribute to Gloria Steinem and Robin Morgan?
1:26–9:36
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How does Myf describe the legacy of second‑wave feminists for Gen X women?
9:36–25:17
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Why does Myf consider the documentary ‘My Mom Jayne’ an essential watch?
25:17–26:03