Episode 40 - Reni Eddo-Lodge - 🇬🇧

Cet épisode de La Poudre est disponible à l’écoute dans une version doublée en français. Cliquez ici pour l’écouter. In this episode, Reni Eddo-Lodge talks about the controversy over the french title of her book (06:00), living her life in London (17:33), her precocious militant commitment while she was only 19 years old (26:05), the Stephen Lawrence case (34:25), why she no longer talks about race with white feminists (38:25), intersectionality through the media stage (42:02), the blog post that changed her life (56:17), the importance of self-care (59:53), and her fight against the fibroids that inhabit her uterus (1:06:30). In 2014, the british journalist and essayist Reni Eddo-Lodge published a blog post that stirred up a hornet’s nest : « Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race.”. At the end of year 2017, she published a book of the same title released by Bloomsbury Publishing. The book, which was a best seller for ten month straight in England, has just been translated to French under the title « Le racisme est un problème de Blancs » (ed. Autrement). Reni Eddo-Lodge was born in 1989 and grew up in the working-class districts of London before studying English literature at the University of Central Lancashire, where she became a feminist activist and the president of her university’s student union until 2012. As a freelance journalist, Reni Eddo-Lodge has worked for medias like The New York Times, The Guardian, BuzzFeed or i-D Magazine. She received numerous prizes for her work, including the prestigious « Jhalak Prize » for British writers of colour. In March 2018, she launched her own podcast « About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge », a show that takes the conversation started by her bestseller a step further. This episode of La Poudre was recorded at the Monocle Studio in London. A special thanks to Bill Leuty for his help and kindness. The extract in the intro is the theme song of « About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge », Reni Eddo-Lodge’s podcast, by Matshidiso. Executive producer : Nouvelles Écoutes Production and signature tune : Aurore Meyer-Mahieu Production assistant : Zisla Tortello Recording and Mixing : Monocle Studio See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Au micro de Lauren Bastide, écrivaines, artistes, chercheuses et militantes se racontent et prennent le pouls des luttes féministes et antiracistes contemporaines. Depuis 2016, la journaliste reçoit dans La Poudre des femmes artistes, militantes ou politiques pour des conversations intimes et profondes qui ont passionné de millions d’auditeurices. Ces récits, enrichis de documentaires événementiels, de tables rondes, et d’analyses par les plus grandes expertes des luttes pour les droits des femmes, en France et dans le monde, forment un tableau captivant de la société à l’heure de la révolution #MeToo.  La Poudre was created by journalist and feminist activist Lauren Bastide, co-founder of Nouvelles Ecoutes studio, to offer women a safe space to express themselves. In a one-hour long, in-depth conversation, inspirational women artists, activists, scientists and politics talk about themselves, their path and struggles, but also about the incredible times we are living for women’s rights. Many episodes of La Poudre have been recorded or dubbed into English. Search for the 🇬🇧 !