Good morning everyone,

This is an excellent interview with long time feminist Gloria Steinem. Really most of this could have been a pullquote so you will enjoy reading the whole thing:

In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen. And sometimes that can be almost as difficult. This is the phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want."

http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a31638/gloria-steinem-interview-sex-consent/

The above interview promotes Gloria Steinem’s memoir, My Life On The Road, and in following the “on the road” rabbit hole I found out about a book that is about a road trip, AND it’s an oral history, AND it’s about feminism. Occasionally when researching for Fem Friday I’ll find things that I’m genuinely cross I haven’t heard of before. This is such a time.

It became clear that the value of Girldrive was in the stories—not the analysis. The idea is that once the reader is hit with all these different experiences and opinions, they can start to have their own gender analysis.

https://bitchmedia.org/post/on-the-map-feminist-road-trippin%E2%80%99

Happy rainy Friday,

Alex.