
Two firsts in this episode: my first two-time guest in Nina Jankowicz, whose new book How To Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back comes out this week, and my first guest interviewer, Hillsborough High School senior, HHS Debate officer, and Prejudice & Pride mover and shaker, Gowri Nair. As I read Nina's book I was struck by a lot of things, but none bigger than the realization that women have to constantly create alliances with one another to protect themselves against toxic men, and there are way more of them than most of us imagine. In fact, I think most men have been guilty of pretty awful behavior at one time or another, sometimes knowingly, sometimes obviously. I could have interviewed Nina and I'm sure it would have been a great conversation, but I was more interested in hearing what questions Gowri would ask, and perhaps give her the first in her many connections to women in the political sphere who will have her back when she needs it.