ROXANE GAY: How Do We Protect Women's Rights?

Abbie Chatfield· Host0:00

It's A Lot is recorded on Gadigal land. We pay our respects to the traditional custodians of this land and to elders past and present. We also would love to extend our respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people listening today, and remind you all that sovereignty was never ceded, and it always was and always will be Aboriginal land. [upbeat music] It's a lot, isn't it? Wow, what an honor to talk to you, Roxane Gay. Thank you so much for your time. Welcome to It's A Lot. There's so much that I could talk to you about that I was saying to my producer, Amy, before, it's like going to a high-quality buffet. Like, we, we, we were kind of panicking before this episode 'cause we were thinking, "What do we talk to her about?" In a way of, you know, do I get the mousse or the cheesecake at the, at the dessert buffet? Like, everything that you have written and said is, uh, so prolific and poignant and in- insightful. So welcome to the podcast. And, um, let's, let's get started. My first question for you is a question that I've had for a lot of different feminists that I've had on the podcast, and I'm looking to you for some guidance in this, and that is about the regression of feminism in the past decade or so, but particularly, I would say in the past two or three years, even just societally with the rise of the manosphere and with the stripping of Roe v. Wade. Um, and even in,