Today Dana DuBois was joined by Zulfina — pre-law student, activist, and the writer behind lettersfromafeminist, a new Substack publication that’s grown astronomically thanks to Zulfina’s incisive, relatable short-form feminist writing.
The conversation moved from the war on the word feminist itself — how it polls fine when you drop the label, how it gets treated like a slur or a punchline — to Zulfina’s recent essay “He Started by Rating the ‘Hotness’ of His Female Classmates. Now He’s Fined $375 Million for Exploiting Children,” and what it reveals about Big Tech’s lack of accountability and how platforms built by men continue to be dangerous places for women and girls.
The hour closed on Dana’s essay “Middle-Aged Men Keep Ogling My 16-Year-Old,” on raising daughters under the omnipresent male gaze—and what it means to protect girls in a world that still can’t tell the difference between looking and leering.
Thank you Harry Hogg, Noble Blend, Nomfundo, Yolanda D., Demian Yumei, HP NOT LOVECRAFT, The One Minute Daily Boost, and many others for tuning in, with special thanks to Karen Marie Shelton and Yanni Hamburger for moderating like the pros they are.
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