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Rebecca Traister

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most recent: 2018-10-31
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“And this was in 2003, 2004. And those pieces started to get readers, which then made there was an incentive for my bosses to have me keep writing from a feminist perspective. So I got to develop a beat and I became a feminist journalist.”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I didn't. I wasn't. I was feminist in my curiosity and in how I read the literature that I was studying and how I, but I don't know how I was just not an activist feminist by any stretch of the imagination. But I had curiosities about gender, but I couldn't have imagined making it a career. And then I got a job at Ceylon. The online magazine. And it was writing a sort of squishy section about women's stuff, like sex or, you know, education. It could have been anything, just sort of what used to be called the mothers who think column. And I started to write from a sort of rudimentary feminist point of view.”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My mom came from a Republican household, but it turned left. So I always had left politics, and I was particularly interested as a student in various kinds of inequality, gender inequality, racial inequality, and how they shaped literature. And social justice. But it wasn't quite, I wasn't an activist. I don't quite know how to describe it. On campus, I never took part in a take back the night march, which was happening a little bit on my campus in the 90s. I was not an activist by any stretch of the imagination. I often wonder if I could go back and ask myself, I knew no one called themselves a feminist. Like I was in a million classrooms where people would, you know, make an observation that began with, I'm not a feminist, but it was deep anti-feminist backlash. I wish I could go back and actually know the answer to the question of would I have called myself a feminist then? Like it just didn't, I don't know whether I would have.”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is how I would. I met a lot of really good friends there. And I actually, that's where I met journalists who are, you know, the young writers and editors who Who worked there so talented, and they encouraged me to think about becoming a journalist myself and help me to get a job as a fact checker and a reporter at the New York Observer, which is a weekly newspaper. And when I was there, I was taught sort of the very nuts and bolts of how to be a reporter and I was put on all kinds of beats that I didn't much care about, real estate sales and the gossip column But I learned how to meet a deadline and how to write a lead and I always had feminist politics. I grew up in a home that was political. My father came from a super left New York family. His relatives had been party leaders in the mid-20th century.”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Talk magazine. Oh man. And I was a secretary there. I was the secretary. I was a new editor. It was. I was there almost my entire tenure there was before it launched. I quit very quickly after the first issues. It was like a year of preparing to publish a magazine.”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I got that. There was a lot of coffee and a lot of delivered, expensive sushi and some crazy travel with famous people. And then in my mid-20s, I get a job as a...”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, I didn't have any particular grand plan to become a journalist. It always felt like a very glamorous career. I grew up the daughter of academics and the idea of like writing something and putting my name on it and getting paid for it was basically the equivalent of like being a movie star. So I didn't go to journalism school. I went to Northwestern, which has an incredible journalism school, but I did not go to Madill. I got a degree in American studies. I studied literature. And then when I came to New York after college, I actually worked for my first job was for an actor as an assistant. I thought maybe I would work in the movies.”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I'm really kind of irritated right now. I'm particularly irritated. And also, because it falls into this stuff. But let's talk a little bit about your background, how you got to this. I like to know what people have done and how they get places. So give us a little bit of your background of how you got to this topic and writing in general.”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I want to talk about your book and your background, and I do want to get into today this is just a disturbing day for the media and others, and there's a lot of rage going around. Obviously, these pipe bombs are being found all over the place aimed at Democrats, essentially. And you have a president responting and the media and the president responding saying it's their fault or that they did it to themselves and things like that.”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I am Kara Swisher, editor at large of Recode. You may know me as someone who's mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore. And also, I vote, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Reco Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network today in the red chair is Rebecca Tracer, a fantastic writer for New York magazine, one of my favorites and the cut. She's also the author of a new book called Good and Mad, the Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger. Rebecca, this is a very good day to talk. Very good day, very bad day. Welcome to Reco Decode.”
2018-10-31 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Good and Mad' author Rebecca Traister · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT