Women, like the yellow wallpaper and it went on to create some of the first texts of women and gender studies movement in universities and now that every publisher publishs some feminist books at least we publish the most cutting edge, issues other publishers are not touching because they dont know to or too controversial so all our books have an urgency to them but also might have kind of new and cutting edge. Host what is your background . How did you get into this . Guest i am a journalist. I was born 45 years ago, a lot of feminists things happen. I have written six books, made two documentarys traveled the country speaking about feminisms all i know it is very mainstream. The word feminism is not the worst people would label but it probably is feminist or their belief system is often very feminist allies dont get hung up on the word, i love the title the feminist press. We were really expansion definition of that but i think my career as the way i practice it demonstrates i write
Childhood. One of the dreams is about being hunted down, hiding, being terrified for my life. The other dream is about being a murderer and trying to hide the evidence. And i had them for years as a child. As it turned out, i learned much later that my mom shared one of those dreams, the first dream. She was an immigrant from lithuania. She lived through the war there with her dad and her siblings, and as, you know, many people who have gone through war and have suffered, you know, trauma, she had a dream with her sister, sharing the same dream for years about being hunted down. So somehow i inherited part of this dream life. And i think one of the curious things for me as a writer and just as a daughter is why i have the second part of the dream, the second dream and not the first, and not just the first. Host and when did you, when did you discover why you were having that second dream about being a murderer . Guest well, i discovered it about five years ago when i first learned that