Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back for the third season of Anonymous Was a Woman . Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what it means to feel like you belong. Chapter 2: Jamila introduces Top End Girl , Miranda Tapsell's 2020 memoir. Chapter 3: Astrid discusses The Loudness of Unsaid Things , the debut novel by Hilde Hinton. Recommendations: Jamila recommends Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez. Astrid recommends Growing Up Disabled in Australia , which is edited by Carly Findlay. CHAT WITH US Jo...
Jan 31, 2021•26 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Have a grumpy uncle you need to buy a Christmas gift for? Or what about your mum who has read everything already? Or do you want something uplifting for the person you love who is struggling? Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are here to help with all the Christmas book recommendations you need (and probably some that you don't). To buy or read more about the books discussed in this episode, visit https://www.hachette.com.au/collections/future-women-festive-special And in other news, Anonymous Was...
Nov 30, 2020•21 min
Rick Morton joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider justice in both our personal ives and the society we live in. Rick is an award-winning journalist and a Senior Reporter for The Saturday Paper. His memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, longlisted for the Walkley Book of the Year, and longlisted for both Biography Book of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year for the ABIA Awards. His second work, On Money...
Oct 07, 2020•27 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider how justice - that greatest of concepts - appears in recent fiction and non-fiction. Chapter 1: What does justice have to do with books? Chapter 2: Jamila considers 'wokeness' and racial justice in her reading of Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid. Chapter 3: Astrid considers climate and intergenerational justice as discussed in Naomi Klein's On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Recommendations: Jamila recommends the legal classic from Helen Garner, ...
Oct 04, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Rebecca Huntley joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider fortitude, and specifically where we find it and how we use it to address the climate crisis. Rebecca is one of Australia's most experienced social researchers and former director of The Mind and Mood Report, the longest running measure of the nation's attitudes and trends. She is a member of Al Gore's Climate Reality Corps, carries out social research for NGOs such as The Wilderness Society and WWF, and writes and presents for th...
Sep 30, 2020•24 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards explore the concept of fortitude in both life and literature. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what fortitude means to them. Chapter 2: Jamila brings back The White Girl , the award-winning 2019 novel by Tony Birch. Chapter 3: Astrid ponders A Better Death: Conversations about the Art of Living and Dying Well by Dr Ranjana Srivastava. Recommendations: Astrid recommends Show Me Where It Hurts: Living with invisible illness by Kylie Maslen. Jamila introduces Un...
Sep 27, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Angela Saini joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider momentum for change, particularly in relation to science and what we consider fact. Angela is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. Her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science was published in 2019 and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Foyles Book of the Year. Her previous book, Inferior: How science got women wrong, was published in 2017 and received the Physics World Book of the Yea...
Sep 23, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider momentum and how we create real and lasting change in our world. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid consider what momentum actually means. Chapter 2: Jamila introduces Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal Al Sharif and reminds us all how much momentum one person can create. Chapter 3: Astrid makes the case for us all to understand how economies work in this time of global upheaval and recommends Talking to My Daughter: A brief history of capitali...
Sep 20, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Maxine Beneba Clarke joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider creativity and determination. Maxine is a phenomenally talented Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent. Her works include her memoir The Hate Race (which received the NSW Premier's Literary Award Multicultural NSW Award 2017 and was shortlisted for an ABIA, an Indie Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and Stella Prize) and the short fiction collection Foreign Soil (which received the ABIA for Literary Fiction ...
Sep 16, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider the determination of characters, authors and survivors to go beyond the page and have an impact on the real world. Chapter 1: How determined do Jamila and Astrid feel, both in lockdown in Melbourne, during this, the longest and saddest of years? Chapter 2: Astrid introduces the new dystopian literary thriller from Kate Mildenhall, The Mother Fault. Chapter 3: Jamila explores The Vanishing Half , the latest novel from Brit Bennet, whose standout debut The ...
Sep 13, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Cole Brown joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider rage, and especially those times when rage can lead to action. Cole is the author of the debut genre-bending millennial masterpiece Greyboy: Finding blackness in a white world. Join us on Monday for an episode on determination . CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter ) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter ) to continue the conversation. This...
Sep 09, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider rage, who gets to be openly angry and who is expected to hide their anger away. Chapter 1: Jamila puts the word 'rageful' to good use, and Jamila and Astrid consider the last time they were truly angry. Chapter 2: Jamila considers Layla F. Saad's Me and White Supremacy: How to recognise your privilege, combat racism and change the world. Chapter 3: Astrid surprises herself and Jamila by bringing more poetry to the podcast, this time Throat by Ellen van Ne...
Sep 06, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Kate Richards joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to consider awe in life and literature. Kate is a writer of fiction and narrative nonfiction. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Madness: a memoir , the Penguin Special Is there no place for me? and Fusion. Kate also has a medical degree with honours and works in medical research in Melbourne. Join us on Monday for an episode on rage . CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Ja...
Sep 02, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider awe - awe of the little things in our daily lives, as well as awe of the bigger things that may change us. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid unpick what they each understand awe to be. Chapter 2: Jamila goes deep on Julia Baird's Phosphorescence , a work that reminds us all about the lightness and joy we can find in daily life. Chapter 3: Astrid explains how Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things and polemic The Cost of Living changed her life twenty ye...
Aug 30, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Helen Goh joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards from London to discuss comfort and comfort food. Helen was born in Malaysia but started her cooking career in Australia. After seven years as head pastry chef at Donovans, a landmark Melbourne restaurant, she moved to London and joined Yotam Ottolenghi's team. Helen has worked closely with Yotam as the lead product developer for over a decade, and she is the creative and comforting force behind the phenomenal cookbook Sweet . Join us on Monday for ...
Aug 26, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards embrace the happier side of life this week and consider the idea of comfort. Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid reflect on what gives them comfort in 2020 (it involves books, of course). Chapter 2: Jamila makes the case for reading The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm and Mindful in a Fast-Paced World by Haemin Sunim. Chapter 3: Astrid recommends reading the love story Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - although this novel is so much more...
Aug 23, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Tara June Winch joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards from her lockdown in France to discuss creativity and solitude. Tara was awarded the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2020 for The Yield , and the novel was also shortlisted for The Stella Prize. In this interview, Tara reflects on the recent novel, The White Girl , written by her mentor Tony Birch (who was also shortlisted for the prize this year). Tara also considers the importance of her creative professional relationship with Behrouz Booc...
Aug 19, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back with Season 2 of Anonymous Was A Woman . Chapter 1: First up, Jamila and Astrid consider the idea of solitude and creativity in 2020. Chapter 2: Jamila and Astrid take a look back at Virginia’s Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (a quote from which serves as the name of the podcast). How does the work stack up in 2020, and what else could we be reading (hint, we should all read Women, Race and Class by Angela Y. Davis and Talkin’ Up to the White Woman by Aileen ...
Aug 16, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 1
In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are inviting women of colour to recommend to you their favourite reads. Carly Findlay , author of the memoir Say Hello and editor of the forthcoming anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia , recommends The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins and Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie. Let us know what you think and what you are reading with the hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #Anony...
Aug 02, 2020•10 min
In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are inviting women of colour to recommend to you their favourite reads. Zoya Patel , author of No Country Woman , recommends Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose. The title of this collection of essays is of course a quote from Virginia Woolf, as is the title of our podcast. Zoya also gives a shout out to the work of The Stella Prize, which is changing the way we read in Australia. Let us know what you think and what you...
Jul 30, 2020•8 min
In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are inviting women of colour to recommend to you their favourite reads. Alice Pung recommends you dive into the works of Melissa Lucashenko. Alice suggests starting with Melissa Lucashenko's 2014 award-winning essay 'Sinking Below Sight: Down and out in Brisbane and Logan', and then move on to Too Much Lip , her novel which received the Miles Franklin Literary Award and was shortlisted for The Stella Prize in 2019. Let us know what you ...
Jul 26, 2020•4 min
In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back with a special episode featuring Jan Fran , Leah Purcell and Jessie Tu . Introduction: Why a special episode? Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid talk accountability and reading audits. Chapter 2: Jan Fran reflects on her experience of the 2005 Cronulla Riots in Western Sydney, introduces her forthcoming book, and recommends Talkin' Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson. Chapter 3: Leah Purcell shares her thoughts on her fa...
Jul 19, 2020•41 min
In our final bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider the female characters from literature they would want to befriend at the end of the world. And yes, they have very different understandings of what the end of the world might look like. This bonus episode follows on from Episode 8: Triumph. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter ) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter ) to continue th...
Jun 15, 2020•8 min
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are joined by Min Jin Lee to discuss triumph in literature. The hero’s journey has shaped fiction since before we called it that. Is the heroine's journey different? Chapter 1: Min Jin Lee joins Jamila and Astrid from New York to discuss her novel Pachinko and explore the different ways her female characters experience success and triumph. Chapter 2: Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld. Chapter 3: Rising Strong by Brené Brown. Recommendations: Astrid recommends The Enligh...
Jun 14, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In our seventh bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards reveal the children’s books they most adored when younger, as well as those they are now deeply embarrassed by. And yes, kids books have gotten so much better. This bonus episode follows on from Episode 7: Innocence. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter ) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter ) to continue the conversation. This podcast is...
Jun 08, 2020•7 min
Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards discuss childhood, innocence and growing up. Introduction: Innocence and the importance of remembering childhood. Chapter 1: We buy books for kids to expand their minds and their worlds. But does literature for and about children have something to offer adults as well? Laura Harris, Publishing Director at Penguin Random House Australia, joins Jamila and Astrid to answer this question. Chapter 2: The Bluey universe, with special guest Rafi Rizvi-Smith. Chapter 3: H...
Jun 07, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 7
In our sixth bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards consider who the loneliest character in literature may be. This bonus episode follows on from Episode 6: Loneliness. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter ) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter ) to continue the conversation. This podcast is brought to you by Future Women and Penguin Random House Australia . The podcast is produced by Bad Pr...
Jun 01, 2020•6 min
Writer and comedian Rosie Waterland joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to discuss loneliness. Introduction: Loneliness in 2020. Chapter 1: What is the difference between being alone and loneliness? Is there a difference for introverts and extroverts? Chapter 2: Rosie Waterland discusses loneliness, loss and social isolation, and reflects on the process of writing The Anti-Cool Girl and Every Lie I've Ever Told . Chapter 3: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking and ...
May 31, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In our fifth bonus episode, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards reveal what their boggart would be. And if you aren't a Harry Potter fan, a boggart is a shape-shifting creature that takes on the form of its observer's worst fear... This bonus episode follows on from Episode 5: Fear. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter ) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter ) to continue the conversation. This podcast i...
May 25, 2020•4 min
Author Rebekah Robertson joins Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards to discuss fear in life and literature. Introduction: Why do we choose to be afraid when we read? And what does that mean for an author who writes their own experience of fear, or of others being somehow afraid of them? Chapter 1: Rebekah Robertson discusses About A Girl , her work chronicling her transgender daughter’s experience growing up in Australia. Chapter 2: See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse by Jess H...
May 24, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 5
