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Feminists Around the World: Caitlin Blunnie · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Welcome to Steffan Never
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  Speaker 1: Told You production by Her Radio.
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  Speaker 2: And for today's feminists around the world. We are featuring
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  Speaker 2: a well known and much loved artist, Caitlin Blunny, and
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  Speaker 2: we've actually featured her, I think on our Instagram. If not,
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  Speaker 2: I've thought about doing it when I was doing the
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  Speaker 2: Instagram because she has such amazing stuff and we here
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  Speaker 2: love her work so much. I was perusing through her
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  Speaker 2: stickers collection. I'm gonna have to buy a few. But
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  Speaker 2: Blunny is an activist and artist currently from the DC
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  Speaker 2: area who has been outspoken for the rights and advocacy
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  Speaker 2: for others. Her art has been used throughout the country
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  Speaker 2: and the world as a representation of queer trains and
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  Speaker 2: reproductive rights, women's rights, disability rights of all of the things,
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  Speaker 2: like she is on top of it, and again she
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  Speaker 2: has done so much with all of that. And she's
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  Speaker 2: known by her title Liberal Jane. I think people everybody's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be like, yeah, no, I know who she is.
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  Speaker 2: And her works has been featured on different publications and
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  Speaker 2: by different campaigns that like I just saw I believe
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  Speaker 2: Women's art activists kind of a site that was featuring
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  Speaker 2: and thanking her for her work. She's she's known. If
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  Speaker 2: you're a part of this community, you've seen her artwork,
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  Speaker 2: even though you might not know the name or her
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  Speaker 2: name personally. I know Liberal Jane. I didn't know her
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  Speaker 2: name before the fact, but Caitlin Blunny and she's amazing. Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: She went to school in New York and moved soon
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  Speaker 2: after she graduated, and she's talked about growing up in
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  Speaker 2: a conservative household and how her own father inspired the
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  Speaker 2: name liberal Jane. So here's a quote from an interview
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  Speaker 2: from j Jones magazine. Quote. I grew up pretty conservatively
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  Speaker 2: and my dad, who was pretty far right, was upset
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  Speaker 2: when I went off to college and was exposed to
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  Speaker 2: progressive ideas. Sounds familiar. We would often talk read yell
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  Speaker 2: over the phone about politics, and one day he just
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  Speaker 2: responded to my argument with okay, Liberal Jane. And the
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  Speaker 2: name stuck, especially when I got deeper into my activist work.
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  Speaker 2: I decided to keep what became a family nickname and
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  Speaker 2: use it online as an alias. While I'm no longer
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  Speaker 2: anonymous online, the name is very sentimental to me, and
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  Speaker 2: I love that take something that's supposed to be an
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  Speaker 2: insult and use it and make money. Yeah, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: she has two hundred and forty six thousand followers on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: She is known so go ahead, and her journey and
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  Speaker 2: starting Liberal Jane was due to her empathy and standing
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  Speaker 2: up for the rights of trans people and wanting to
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  Speaker 2: be a voice to advocate for everyone's rice. So here's
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  Speaker 2: a quote from Amelia greenblog dot WordPress dot com. Caitlin
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  Speaker 2: Blenny has been an advocate for sexual assault victims and
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  Speaker 2: while at university, was the victim of an attack herself
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  Speaker 2: needing an abortion. Being an a to access one in Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: she traveled across the state lines to get the healthcare
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  Speaker 2: service she required. In her heavy New York draw, she explains,
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  Speaker 2: in Virginia, if you want an abortion, you have to
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  Speaker 2: wait twenty four hours, have to go through counseling, which
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  Speaker 2: is biased, so you will hear things like the word baby.
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  Speaker 2: So through her artwork, she is an avid campaigner for
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  Speaker 2: reproductive rights in America. And again, like she's kind of,
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  Speaker 2: it's just all all everywhere. It's not just reproductive work.
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  Speaker 2: And she actually has worked with several organizations and nonprofits
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  Speaker 2: by the way, so she is all about that walk
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  Speaker 2: in this talk. Yeah, I was cheesy. I'm gonna keep it,
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  Speaker 2: keep going. She has worked as an organizer and uses
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  Speaker 2: her work in digital art spaces as a place for activism.
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  Speaker 2: She grew in popularity in twenty nineteen twenty twenty, and
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  Speaker 2: I say that with a caveat it, there's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: so many people like, No, she was way before. She
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  Speaker 2: probably was, but for us, like, she really blew up
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  Speaker 2: in that era of that digital art space in a
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  Speaker 2: time when everything all the protests and happening in like
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  Speaker 2: through twenty sixteen to twenty nineteen, she really blew up
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  Speaker 2: in that timeframe. I'll keep it at that. You can
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  Speaker 2: come correct me because I understand. And she has become
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  Speaker 2: a household name in the artivism world, which we have
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  Speaker 2: said a couple of times, but it does sound tongue
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  Speaker 2: in cheek, but still we love it. Her works are
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  Speaker 2: inspiring and inclusive for so many And she talks about
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  Speaker 2: how she began her illustration journey after working with a
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  Speaker 2: nonprofit where she was dismissed for her concerns when a
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  Speaker 2: coworker was making anti trans comments, and she used her
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  Speaker 2: art to be able to vent her frustrations, which good
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  Speaker 2: on you. This is better than smacking somebody or yelling
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  Speaker 2: at them I am a violent person or her anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So in her more recent post on Instagram, you will
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  Speaker 2: see her works that highlight the importance and beauty of diversity,
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  Speaker 2: calling out for advocacy through her illustrations. My faves include
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  Speaker 2: the support your local WORF library. That's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Bodily autonomy is an appellation value. There's a possum in
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  Speaker 2: one of ours. Gotta love that, uh a full stop.
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  Speaker 2: And then asexuality is a real is real and valid.
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  Speaker 2: Like she's very inclusive in all of that and is
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  Speaker 2: a wonderful part of the queer workspace. Yes, that was
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  Speaker 2: a shout out for you, Annie.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: We need that kind of we need that as a poster.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, like I said, she has some wonderful, wonderful stickers.
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  Speaker 2: You should go check them out. They're a little sparkly
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  Speaker 2: little round badges. One. You can go find it at
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  Speaker 2: Liberal Jane dot com, which you can find out about
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  Speaker 2: her work, all the art, some of the articles that
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  Speaker 2: she's been featured in. How to collaborate with her, we
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  Speaker 2: should probably get there. I kind of want her to
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  Speaker 2: do some art work for us, but I have a
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  Speaker 2: feeling she might be too expensive for iHeart for rightly so,
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  Speaker 2: because it's worth that amount. But it is gorgeous. She
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  Speaker 2: was also featured on The NIB, which is a publisher
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  Speaker 2: of and this is from their site, quote political cartoons
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  Speaker 2: and nonfiction comics about what is going down in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and the story is called Abortion is an Essential Service,
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  Speaker 2: where she tells as Marie's story and her having to
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  Speaker 2: access abortion care and why it should be for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: I will say a lot of the information that I
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  Speaker 2: have gotten is from twenty twenty. Like I said, like
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  Speaker 2: she really blew up at that point in time. I
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  Speaker 2: discovered her before then I'll put that out there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I can. I can claim that I knew her and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know. I don't know her at all. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just saying I saw her work, probably, but all of
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  Speaker 2: that to say she I haven't gotten too much more
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  Speaker 2: information in articles and I don't know why. I'm very
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  Speaker 2: surprised by this, but twenty twenty was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the frames and including that story that was published. And again,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to go check out the NIB, which
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  Speaker 2: is really cool. They have a lot of amazing illustrations
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  Speaker 2: and comics beautifully done and different artists are featured throughout,
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  Speaker 2: so you definitely should check that out. But this was
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  Speaker 2: one that I went through and read and like it
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  Speaker 2: was exactly kind of what we did with our book
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  Speaker 2: on when we were telling our stories. But I love
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  Speaker 2: all of her art. It is gorgeous and by the way,
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  Speaker 2: just recently I checked out on her LinkedIn that she's
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  Speaker 2: worked with Women's First Digital to quote shine a light
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  Speaker 2: on digital censorship of abortion information, which she has to
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  Speaker 2: be busy. Like her artwork, I'm sure she's being inspired
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  Speaker 2: by so much. I did see a lot of like
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  Speaker 2: new artwork that has to do with immigration issues again,
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  Speaker 2: disability rights, obviously trans issues that are happening because the
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  Speaker 2: world is a burning ball of garbage anyway, But her
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  Speaker 2: artwork is a bright light in all of these things,
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  Speaker 2: so you should definitely go check out her stuff. Go
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  Speaker 2: look at her up Liberal Jane on all the social media's.
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  Speaker 2: I found her on TikTok as well, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: think she's posted anything since twenty twenty four, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if she's as active on there. Sheels on Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: and I will add this bit too. She did talk
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  Speaker 2: about in some of our articles about the fact that
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  Speaker 2: Instagram has been kind of causing issues and censorship when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to her art and her work and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people who are left leaning activism leg and
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot to be said, so it is interesting
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  Speaker 2: to see. But she is still doing a lot of
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  Speaker 2: great work. So there you go. Go find our stickers.
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  Speaker 1: They sound cool, Yeah, they are cool, yes, yes, So
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