OurShelves: Awakening with 吕频 Lü Pin
Ourshelves
English - September 17, 2021 09:24 - 37 minutes - 51 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture feminism books reading author interview culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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How do you say ‘Me Too’ in Chinese – when it’s banned on social media?
吕频 Lü Pin, Chinese feminist activist featured in Awakening by Rachel Vogelstein and Meighan Stone, talks to Lucy Scholes about her work challenging gender-based violence in a state without freedom of speech or protest. Through ingenuity, humour and sheer determination, she says, because ‘nobody’ – not even the Chinese government – ‘can control everything’. She remembers the first time she read something which taught her to be proud of being a woman; champions the pop star singing about domestic violence in China; and argues for the importance of anger in fighting her cause.
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