Clementine Ford and her Love Letter to Girls
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BROAD’s Sonja Hammer talks with writer and feminist activist blogger “flamethrower” and ally and icon, Clementine Ford, and chat to her about her book Fight Like A Girl described as such: ‘Personal and fearless – a call to arms for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised by one of our most outspoken feminist writers.’ From the publishing house for the book, Allen and Unwin. She describes the book being “a love letter to the girls “.
‘With wit, insight and glorious, righteous rage, Clementine Ford lays out all the ways in which girls and women are hurt and held back, and unapologetically demands that the world do better. A passionate and urgently needed call to arms, Fight Like A Girl insists on our right to be angry, to be heard and to fight. It’ll change lives.’ Emily Maguire, author of An Isolated Incident.
“It’s a letter to the bitches and the broads, the sluts and the whores,” she says. “It’s to the troublemakers and the rebels, the women who are told they’re too loud, too proud, too big, too small. Or not enough of anything at all. ”
Her message to women is to find a supportive “girl gang” (hers threw flowers and a maternity bra on to the stage), refuse to shrink, eschew self-hatred, be open about abortion, “shrug off all that toxic noise” and don’t fear retribution.
And primarily, she argues that it is OK to be angry, to block, walk away and ignore or stay and yell back.’ Excerpt from Sydney Morning Herald’s Julia Baird.
BROAD would like to thank Clementine Ford for her precious time to talk to us.
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