This episode Joan Vargas joins us as our special guest. She is a poet, writer, poetic pottery creator, social advocate, and feminist.
We discuss her journey into poetry and how it how empowered her to be the woman she is. She is currently working on a book that will launch this year. She is focused on giving us a voice, her poems speak for more than just herself and her delivery is amazing. She also discusses how poetry also lead into her pottery creations. You can head over to her website to javwrites.com and check out some of her creations we talk about in this podcast.
In all of Joan's creations everything links back up one main passion. Her poems empower women, her art empowers women, and she herself empowers women. We discuss what it means to be a feminist and how feminist have been labeled with such a man-hatter label. When neither her or I are that. To us being a feminist means you have the right to choose, you can choose to work or you can choose not to work. However most women will judge one or the other depending on their choice. Joan shares some personal stories of sexism she experienced in the work place and the issue of the comfortability men have saying things like "oh you must be on your period", or "she has kids that means she will need time off".
We hope you enjoy our open conversation and as always send us feed back.
Follow Joan's journey, listen to her slam poetry, and stay up to date of when her book will be releases on her instagram @jav_writes_
Below is the book I reference Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I highly recommend this book great perspective on Feminism.
