This week on STPT, the sun is out and Danielle Holland and Damithia Nieves reflect on young love, heartbreak and first kisses. It’s all fun and games until the patriarchy comes for your heart.
Then, essayist, novelist, researcher, and professor of journalism, Sonora Jha, returns to STPT. Jha and hosts get right into Jha’s latest book, How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family. Together they explore themes in the book, from narratives of family, the structure and necessity of apology, the performative, predatory and partnered feminists, and the work it will take to get to critical mass for an intersectional feminist future. This is what we need to learn and know to take care of one another. What more important work is there?
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Sonora Jha, PhD, is an essayist, novelist, researcher, and professor of journalism at Seattle University. She is the author of the novel Foreign, and her op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Seattle Times, The Establishment, DAME, and in several anthologies. She grew up in Mumbai and has been chief of metropolitan bureau for the Times of India and contributing editor for East magazine in Singapore. She teaches fiction and essay writing for Hugo House, Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat, and Seattle Public Library. She is an alumna and board member of Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat, and has served on the jury for awards for Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, and Hugo House.
