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653: Sonora Jha: How to Raise a Feminist Son


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Sonora Jha is the author of the memoir How to Raise a Feminist Son and the novel Foreign. After a career as a journalist covering crime, politics, and culture in India and Singapore, she moved to the United States to earn a Ph.D. in media and public affairs. Sonora’s op-eds, essays, and public appearances have featured in the New York Times, on BBC, and elsewhere. She is a professor of journalism and lives in Seattle.

 

I recently discovered Sonora and her book, How to Raise a Feminist Son, on Instagram. I got her audiobook and was hooked by the end of her introduction. Sonora is a phenomenal storyteller and truth teller. She is a magical combination of professor, comedian and friend as she digs into her life as a single mom who left India to bring her son to Seattle and raise him as a feminist as she built a family around them. I couldn’t be more excited and delighted to be sharing her with you all today. 


Listen in to hear Sonora share:

  • How her 27 year old son is showing up as an activist for women’s rights today
  • What inspired her book, HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON
  • How raising her son in the dark - at the movies - launched her and her son as a family unit into the world
  • How she intentionally built a family around her and her son - that did not include blood relatives
  • Why feminists can and should include men in their activism - and how we might need to check our biases and assumptions that men aren’t open to being feminists
  • How she redefined motherhood in order to raise a feminist son
  • Why it is important for men and boys to be intersectional feminists
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    Links mentioned:

    • Connect with Sonora: sonorajha.com
    • Book: How to Raise a Feminist Son by Sonora Jha
    • Book: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
    • Book: Inclusion on Purpose by Ruchika Tulshyan
    • Sonora on Twitter
    • Sonora on Instagram
    • Sonora on Facebook
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