Oct 15, 2018
Richard Freeman's special guest this week is Abigail Tarttelin. In 2013, Abigail was placed on the Evening Standard’s Evening Standard's watchlist of "25 people under 25”, for her second novel ‘Golden Boy’, but even by then she had appeared in a number of films and was being lauded as one of the rising British stars of independent cinema. In May 2018, Abigail’s third book ‘Dead Girls’ was published - a taut feminist thriller, exploring themes of girlhood and domestic violence in the 1990s. We spoke to Abigail in late June, and discussed the subjects she tackles in her novels such as intersex rights and modern adolescence, and what it means to be a self-labelled feminist in a time in which the very nature of what gender is, should be, and means is more under the spotlight than ever. --- Useful links: Abigail Tarttelin on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Abigail-Tarttelin/e/B0054IDWU8/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1539547130&sr=8-1 Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wuthering-Heights-Wordsworth-Classics-Bront%C3%AB/dp/1853260010/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539547254&sr=1-1&keywords=wuthering+heights Hanne Gabu Odiele (intersex model and activist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanne_Gaby_Odiele Harvey Milk asks everyone to come out (Huffpost retrospective) https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-knapp/how-harvey-milks-challeng_b_5960258.html David Tarttelin on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tarttelin USA Family Separation Policy in Time Magazine http://time.com/5314769/family-separation-policy-donald-trump/ --- Have you checked out all of other interviews - there are now over 60 past podcasts available on iTunes, Soundcloud are wherever you accessed this one. Please tell us about your favorites and share with others. --- The Possibility Club is also an online platform for like-minded people and a monthly event to ask the big questions in business. culture and education? If you want to get help powering your ideas - visit www.thepossibilityclub.org Richard Freeman appeared for always possible and this podcast is produced and edited by CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts.