Ep 258: Makeup-less, Fat, Defiant, Happy and Still Badass! With Sofie Hagen, Mega Mohan and Poorna Bell

How often do you go makeup-less to work, and would you ever expect a complaint for not wearing a full face?!

Harriet, Emma and author Amanda Prowse are joined by BBC Gender & Identity Correspondent Megha Mohan who this week did one of her news broadcasts bare-faced, she was so shocked by the response she had from the public about her fresh faced appearance, one person even saying she looked ill!

Even in 2019 Are we still judging women on their appearance more than the message they are trying to get across, the Badass ladies are discussing!

“I did want to just be somewhere where I didn’t have to worry about someone else’s reaction or assessment of where I was at with my grief”

Author and journalist Poorna Bell is sharing the story behind the creation of new her book "In Search of Silence" . Reflecting on life after a horrific day four years ago when her husband took his own life, and the journey this has taken her on as she tries to navigate what the world is expecting of her now everything has changed, and how she has re-evaluated the markers for a successful life.

We also learn that Poorna is also pretty badass Power Lifter! she shares how she has gained not just physical strength but much more emotional strength too!

Comedian and writer Sofie Hagen joins the ladies to talk about her new book “Happy Fat”.

She’s explaining the meaning behind ‘Fat Activism’ and the moment she realised fatness was more than just “failing” at a diet, and that in fact she was adopting completely the wrong mind set, one that was based on what society is telling us about fatness and what body size and what Is ‘good’ and ‘bad’!

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Harriet Minter

Natalie Campbell

Emma Sexton

 

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