When someone decides, “I'm too tired to clean a house,” that becomes an inconvenience to someone who expects the house to be clean. When you, as a woman, someone's hitting on you and you're like, “I don't like this,” and you reject that person, usually a man, then that becomes an inconvenience for him, an ego wound for him. When we finally gather our strength and our voice to say, “No, I won't do this,” or “No, you have to stop doing this,” and “No, don't do this to me,” then you become the annoying one. You become the person who is inconveniencing everyone else.

Co-founder of the new feminist blog, Flytrap, Nicole Froio joins us to discuss her new piece titled, "The (Feminist) Empire Strikes Back." The Flytrap Media is a worker-owned, intersectional, and expansive feminist media group that thinks beyond clicks and hashtag-engagement.

"Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.

Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon.

Whatsapp image 2022 09 22 at 1.36.37 pm medium

Guest

Nicole Froio

@NicoleFroio

Nicole Froio is a Brazilian-Colombian journalist and feminist cultural critic. She writes social justice-centered reporting for Prism Reports, Dame Magazine, and Yes! Magazine, and opines on pop culture from a Latine perspective for Refinery29's Somos Latinos. Her career spans over a decade and her bylines can be seen in The Guardian, Xtra Magazine, The Verge, Bitch Media, and many other publications. She believes the written word can help us engage critically with the complex and injust capitalist landscape we live in. Nicole is a founding contributor to The Flytrap.

Feminist Villains / Nicole Froio

Nicole Froio