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In this very special episode of the BSH, I'm joined by the incredible IEOMA OLUO. Ijeoma is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, "So You Want To Talk About Race?" In her latest book, "Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power", Ijeoma explores white male medicority, whiteness as a pyramid scheme and white masculinity in general. This is a fasinating conversation with an expert in her field. I hope you enjoy it!

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I'm joined this week in a special DOUBLE HEADER with one of my best friends, LOU SANZ. Lou is a filmmaker, screenwriter, creator and working mother living in Melbourne. In this episode, we talk creativity, mothering, the slow road to career success and how to be patient. .


From little sisters, we answer questions about the healthy sytem and patriarchy, falling in love with your friends, and drilling down more into the emotional conquistador thing.


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This week’s episode features the sensational DANI ADRIANA, a noted body positivity and fat liberation activist living in far North Queensland. Dani has toured workshops around the world speaking about mental health and fat liberation, and she joined me for a wonderfully insightful conversation about bodies, size inclusivity and the evolution of one’s own activism. I had so many lightbulb moments during this, and you will too!


From Little Sisters, we answered questions about how to deal with breakups, even when we’ve initiated them; and whether or not a partner who was formerly emotionally abusive to you can ever be forgiven.


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Instagram: @iamdaniadriana 


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I was so pleased to welcome someone I admire enormously and am also proud to call friend onto the Hotline this week. NEVO ZISIN is a non-binary, Jewish queer writer who has authored two books (Finding Nevo and the forthcoming The Pronoun Lowdown). They facilitate educational workshops educating workplaces and organisations about gender and trans inclusivity, and we talked at length about how cis people can be allies not just in action but also thinking and language usage. This was such an illuminating and generous conversation, and I’m grateful to Nevo for taking the time to share these views.


From Little Sisters, we answered questions about how to deal with bigotry and intolerance in your family members (important ahead of seasonal celebrations!); how to extricate yourself from toxic friendships; and how to balance the privacy of your loved ones when your work and politics are very public.


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Instagram: @nevozisin 


Buy Nevo’s books here: https://www.booktopia.com.au/finding-nevo-nevo-zisin/book/9781925381184.html


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This week, I’m joined by my good friend JILL STARK to talk about anxiety, lockdown and some of the tools we can use to ground us when we’re feeling fizzy brained. Jill’s first book, “High Sobriety” was about the year she spent sober. She has since become sober again, and we talk about what this means for a person’s mental health and some of the emotional challenges that come with committing to and maintaining sobriety. It gave me a lot to think about in terms of my own relationship to alcohol, and I know it will resonate strongly with listeners!


From little sisters, we answer questions about how to get back into dating without losing yourself in a prospective partner; what to do when the person you’ve been developing intimacy with decides to soft ghost you and insist it’s only ‘casual’; and how to react when a close friend becomes ‘the other woman’.


You can follow Jill and her posts about mental health, sobriety and anxiety at the following places:


Twitter: @jillastark
Facebook: @jillstark
Instagram: @jillstark__


Tracie Egan Morrisey’s Emotional Conquistador article here: https://jezebel.com/dudes-today-the-emotional-conquistador-is-the-new-sexu-5022624


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I had an excellent conversation this week with ALEXANDRA COLLIER, a writer, theatre maker and sole mother by choice. Ally is one of the growing number of women choosing to become sole mothers through sperm donorship. She joined me to talk about motherhood, choices, the narratives we set for our own lives and the beauty we find in them, and why we need to separate maternal desires from our romantic ones. 


From little sisters, we answer questions about always being considered the casual FWB and never the girlfriend; the feminist politics of cosmetic surgery and whether we should hide it from our friends; and how to rebuild a life and individual identity when you’ve spent decades in a relationship.


Find Ally’s article here: Why I Chose To Be A Single Mum


Find Tracie Morrissey’s article on emotional conquistadors here: The Emotional Conquistador is the New Sexual Conquistador


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