Harriet Minter Presents: Badass Women’s Hour

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With Dry January on the horizon, Holly Whitaker shares with Harriet her journey of ditching the booze from her new book "Quit Like A Woman". Plus find out how Irish law now protects women on the internet.

Just before Christmas, Ireland passed a law that makes the internet safer for women. Hear from 3 women on how sexual harassment online can have a severe impact on women, and how Irish laws now make it illegal to film and distributing a sex tape without consent. Dr Cliona Saidlear (Exec Director of the Rape Crisis Network Ireland) explains the law and how it is protecting women now. Journalist Alexandra Ryan shares her experience when a personal moment was filmed and distributed unbeknownst to her. And Mandu Reid from The Women's Equality Party looks at how online sexual harassment can still be an issue.

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Find out more about Holly Whitaker at: @holly on instagram, and quitlikeawoman.com

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Because one Christmas treat just isn't enough.

The Badass Women's Hour team are back with another dose of the best bits from 2020. Bringing you some empowerment and some reflection to end the year. Harriet chats with Dolly Alderton about men and the ghosting culture, plus she is joined by Layla Saad to discuss to be an actual ally and the ongoing importance around the Black Lives Matter movement.

See you in 2021.

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A Christmas gift from The Badass Women's hour team. Join us as we look back over some of our best bits from 2020. Bringing you some wisdom and joy to end the year. In part 1 we look back at Harriet's chat with coach, Natalie Lue, who spoke about managing loneliness, which through these troublesome times is something we can all doing with a recap. Plus, as Christmas is all about the joy of a new birth, we look back at Hannah and Jake Graf's beautiful story.

Part 2 will be available on December 27th.

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How do you cope with grief in 2020? Why are prisons filling with women? And how is the non-profit "Black Girls Hike" impacting the great outdoors?

This week, Harriet welcomes author and journalist Catherine Meyer to discuss her new book "Good Grief", inspired by her personal experience of loss during the unprecedented time of COVID19. Rhiane Fatinikun dives into Black Girls Hike, a social media storm that’s turned into a non-profit that’s focused on improving diversity, learning, education around the great outdoors for people of colour. Olivia Rope, executive director of Penal Reform International, wraps things up with a compelling discussion on the global rise of female prisoners. 

If you want to get in touch you can find us on all the socials under this name: @badasswomenshr and for more about the podcast head here: https://www.badasswomenshour.com

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This week, Harriet is joined by Becka Hudson to discuss the issues faced by victims of sexual assault within the justice system. Gabby Edlin breaks down the necessity of free period products, the journey to making this a reality, and how products can be improved to become more environmentally friendly. Rounding things off is Christa Parravani, an American-based author whose new book describes her experience with the abortion process, or the lack of, in West Virginia, and recounts her realisations of motherhood, activism and the future.

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This week Harriet is joined by Dr Vanessa Gash about why men feel upset when their female partners get paid more than them. Amanda Prowse and her son Josh Hartley speak about their relationship with both each other and depression. Plus Riva Lehrer, American writer and painter talks about spina bifida and rethinking what our bodies mean. 

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This week’s episode is a little different, we’ve looked back at some of our favourite interviews over the past few months and picked a couple to re-share with you, because some interviews are just to good to only share once. Here is Harriet chatting to Florence Given, Matt Haig and Alexandra Wilson. 

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2020, a year like no other and now Joe Biden is President of America. In this week's episode Harriet speaks to callers on her Talk Radio Show about what the election results mean for them and for women across the Globe.

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This week Boris Johnson announced we were going back into Lockdown so Harriet asked Dr Hannah Barrham-Brown to tells us about her point of view as an NHS doctor along looking at the stats about why women are more likely to contract Covid-19 and how scary really they are. Plus Deborah James reminds us how important it is to continue to use the healthcare system and get things checked if you’re worried about your health. 

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