Getting Better Acquainted

In this Getting Better Acquainted Extra I follow up last year's Uncertain New Year episode with a round up of how 2014 actually panned out for me, mixed in with some true stories that I told told at Risk!, Spark London and Stand Up Tragedy. It's a bumper sized episode but it's much shorter than the year it sums up.

The true stories and reflections cover some dark times both from this year and from my past (content note for anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, bullying, body image) as well as plenty of fun and positive times from both this year and from my past. There's also music, reflection, sex clubs, a cameo from Stewart Lee* and quite a lot of me talking.

Next week normal service will resume and GBA will be back yo it's in conversation format.

* Stewart Lee does not literally appear in this episode.

I plug:

This kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1414067749/funding-for-tredegar-band-at-london-pride-2015

LGSM: https://twitter.com/LGSMpride

Pride: http://www.pridemovie.co.uk/

Things mentioned:

Uncertain New Year: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/uncertain-new-year

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

GBA Christmas Special 2014: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-190-christmas

Stand Up Tragedy Christmas Special: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/selected-tragedy-vol-5-tragic-christmas

Open EP: https://soundcloud.com/the-dave/sets/the-open-ep

My Week of Goodbyes: http://davepickeringblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/a-week-of-goodbyes.html

Pod Acadamy: http://podacademy.org/

RSA: http://www.thersa.org/

My website: http://www.davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk/

Jo Barrett: http://muteandinvisible.com/

Life in Scents: http://lifeinscents.com/

#GBA2014

Open Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-open-episodes

Personal Season: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-personal-season-2014

Comment is Free: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/01/tough-choice-cut-job-enfield-children-centres-austerity

Living Streets: http://www.livingstreets.org.uk/

Geek Showoff - Science Showoff: http://www.scienceshowoff.org/

The Moomin Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-moomins-episode

Stand Up Tragedy Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy

Tragic Christmas: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-christmas

Arts Emergency: http://www.arts-emergency.org/

@Kit Lovelace: https://twitter.com/kitlovelace

Kit Lovelace Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-68-kit-lovelace

Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/

Eddie Peppitone: http://eddiepepitone.com/

Rob Auton: http://www.robauton.co.uk/

GBA Live: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba-live-at-edfringe-2014

Sara Pascoe: https://twitter.com/sarapascoe

Andy Zaltzman: https://twitter.com/zaltzcricket

Bouncy Poppy Songs About Death: http://thereactionaries1.bandcamp.com/album/bouncy-poppy-songs-about-death

BPSAD GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-178-bouncy-poppy-songs-about-death

Matt Hill: http://rethinkaudio.wordpress.com/

BAFTA Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/bafta

Storylines: http://www.ampersandmedia.co.uk/current.php

Ampersand Media: http://www.ampersandmedia.co.uk/

Focus e15 Mums: http://focuse15.org/

Musa Okwonga: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-148-musa-okwonga

Neil Denny: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-175-neil-denny

Reni Eddo Lodge: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-182-reni-eddo-lodge

Mike Jackson: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-185-mike-jackson

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Mind Haringey: http://www.mindinharingey.org.uk/

Forty Hall: http://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/whats-on/events/forty_hall_by_candlelight_1

Jen: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/

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In GBA 190 we get better acquainted with Christmas (again). It's the 2014 Christmas Special and this time we focus more on the complicated than the uplifting. The majority of the episode is a conversation between me and my friend Nina, two people with a complicated relationship with Christmas swapping our war stories. Also so featured in the episode is a story of recent Christmas joy from Connor and a song from Martin Austwick. The episode also contains my father's voice speaking to his granddaughter in the past and providing some Tove Jannson style Christmas spirit.

This episode hopes to offer solidarity to the seasonally afflicted and an explanation to those who love Christmas for why many of us might not. It does touch on upsetting family dynamics and mental health issues, including specific reference to traumatic events, depression and violence against children but in an actually pretty light and seasonal way.

For other GBA flavours of Christmas see the past 3 Christmas Specials:

2011: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-christmas-special

2012: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-91-getting-better

2013: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-141-a-room-full-of

Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year!

To hear the contributors at length in a none Christmas context listen to these episodes:

Nina: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-132-nina

Connor: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-186-connor

Martin: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-67-martin-the-sound-man

Dad: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes

Mentioned/Plugged:

Martin Austwick:

http://www.martinzaltzaustwick.com/

https://twitter.com/martinaustwick

http://www.thesoundoftheladies.com/

https://martinaustwick.bandcamp.com/

Stand Up Tragedy: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy

Full Tragic Christmas: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-christmas

Tove Jansson: http://www.tovejansson.com/

The Fir Tree: http://tygertale.com/2013/12/01/december-1st-the-fir-tree-by-tove-jansson/

The Moomins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin

The Mum Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1

(There will be no GBA next week. It will return in January 2014.)

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In GBA 189 we get better acquainted with Heather. She talks about how faith and theatre has influenced her passion for working with young people and in getting involved with LGBT rights, her methodist upbringing and personal relationship with God, the experience of being pregnant and how she first knew me as "Pajama Boy".

Heather Plugs: Speaking up for other people's rights.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

We mention:

Tim: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-188-tim

Mencap: https://www.mencap.org.uk/

PGCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_Certificate_in_Education

I Have 2 Mummys books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Has_Two_Mommies

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Some-people-have-Mums-SomeFamilies-net/dp/1484097122

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Two-Mommies-Vanita-Oelschlager/dp/0982636679

Central Park Penguins book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three

Heteronormativity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity

Methodism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism

Rowan Williams (The Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of recording): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Williams

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In GBA 188 we get better acquainted with Tim. He talks about mathematical physics, particle accelerators, the dark matter that may form the universe, E=mc2, films, playing the bass, being a twin, having a happy childhood and more.

Tim Plugs:

His website: http://www.t-j-walton.co.uk/

We mention:

Edinburgh Special: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-15-edinburgh-festival

Large Hadron Collider: http://www.stfc.ac.uk/646.aspx

CERN: Cern

Particle Accelerator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_accelerator

Ion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion

Plasma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_%28physics%29

Special Relativity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity

General Relativity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

Michelson-Morley Experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment

E=MC2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalence

Tachyon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

King's Lynn: http://www.kingslynnonline.com/

Hunstanton: http://www.norfolk-on-line.co.uk/hunstanton-norfolk/

Richard: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-episodes

Nuffield Theatre: https://www.liveatlica.org/information/visiting/live-at-lica-venues/lancaster-nuffield-theatre

Muse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse_%28band%29

Philip Glass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass

Cinematic Orchestra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cinematic_Orchestra

Dad: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes

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In GBA 187 we get better acquainted with Hannah. She talks about connecting with people, about the crack in everything that lets the light get in, about rootlessness, relationships, family, love, death and pain. It's a conversation that threads itself around how facebook can connect and dissect people, making your life into fiction and finding out what how people relate and connect to each other.

Content Note: The conversation is warm but it covers dark and difficult subjects including suicide, bereavement and experiences of mental health issues and traumas.

Hanna plugs:

Boyhood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyhood_%28film%29

We mention:

Spark London: sparklondon.com/

"There is a crack, a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ma5tF6TJpA

Watching the English - Kate Fox: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-131-carl

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In GBA 186 we get better acquainted with Connor. In a glass house late at night in the cold eating crisps we have a conversation where all roads lead back to radio, passing through Ireland, Brussels, China, childhood, The Third Coast Festival, In the Dark and more. There's also lot's of podcast talk.

Connor plugs:

In the Dark: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/

Invisible Picture Palace: http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/

We mention:

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-87-in-conversation

Invisible Picture Palace episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba-live-the-invisible-picture

Helen and Olly's Required Listening: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m5j91

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-127-robin-the-fog

Rethink Daily: http://rethinkdaily.co.uk/

Ricky Gervais podcast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ricky_Gervais_Show

Radio Sweden: http://sverigesradio.se/sida/default.aspx?programid=2054

Ministry of Stories

Ouch! http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/podcast/

Farming Today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/farming

The Live GBA Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba-live

100th Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba100-1

International Crisis Group: http://www.crisisgroup.org/

Magritte: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Magritte

BBC Chinese Service: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/chinafocus

DX Listening Digest: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html

The World Service: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio

Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4

China Radio International: http://english.cri.cn/

Coffee Flavoured Tea: http://www.coffeeflavouredtea.net/wordpress/

https://soundcloud.com/coffeeflavouredtea

RTE: http://www.rte.ie/

Radio 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1

Radio 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2

Radio 5 Live: http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live

Murphy Radio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_Radio

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-74-mervyn

Good Friday Agreement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement

6 Degrees of Separation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation

Open Society Foundation: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/

George Soros: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/people/george-soros

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/

Third Coast Festival: http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/

The Story: http://thestory.org.uk/

Karl James episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-chris-and-karl-episodes

Timehop: http://timehop.com/

Maplin: http://www.maplin.co.uk/

The Sound of Silence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4

Simon and Garfunkle Greatest Hits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkel's_Greatest_Hits

Carry On Up the Charts Beautiful South: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry_On_up_the_Charts

Bailrigg FM: http://bailriggfm.co.uk/

Teenage Kicks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtUw6lxcis

John Peel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peel

Micheal Fenton Stevens episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-michael-fenton-stevens

Pigs in Space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTGDpUg3CHY

Lights Out Listening: https://lightsoutlisteninggroup.wordpress.com/

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In GBA 185 we get better acquainted with Mike Jackson. I met Mike at theFocus E15 Mothers Occupation earlier this year and he is one of the real people who are fictionalised in the film Pride. We talk about the personal and the political, going through class experience and class struggle, LGBT rights, solidarity between differently oppressed groups, consciousness raising, activist and trade union history and so much more.

Mike plugs:

The reformed LGSM who can be found here: http://www.twitter.com/LGSMpride

And in the future they'll be on facebook too here: LGSM 2014

We mention:

GBA 179 Focus E15 Mothers (feat Mike Jackson): https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-179-focus-e15-mothers

Focus e15 Mothers:

https://twitter.com/FocusE15

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Focus-E15-Mothers/602860129757343

http://focuse15.org/

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Pride: http://www.pridemovie.co.uk/

Billy Elliot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Elliot

Brassed Off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassed_Off

The Full Monty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Full_Monty

Stephen Beresford: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Beresford

Marc Ashton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ashton

Joe Gilgun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gilgun

This Is England: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England

The Miner's Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%80%9385)

Margaret Thatcher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

Pricewaterhouse Coopers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PricewaterhouseCoopers

Neoliberal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Neoconservative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism

Von Hayek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek

Milton Friedman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman

Tony Benn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn

Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything: http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate/dp/1451697384

Freddie Fox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Fox_(actor)

Pink Triangle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle

Print Workers Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute

Still the Enemy Within: http://the-enemy-within.org.uk/

Women Against Pit Closures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Against_Pit_Closures

Clement Attlee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee

Accrington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accrington

1967 Sexual Offences Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967

Johnathan Harvey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harvey_(playwright)

Beautiful Thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Thing_(play)

Canary: http://www.amazon.co.uk/22Canary-22-Modern-Plays-Jonathan-Harvey/dp/1408131048

"Equal" Marriage Bill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_(Same_Sex_Couples)_Act_2013

Mark Ashton's Fund: https://www.facebook.com/markashtontrust

Soma Mining Disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_mine_disaster

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In GBA 184 we get better acquainted with Duncan. He talks about writing for theatre, day jobs, The West Yorkshire Playhouse writer's programme, the Royal Court Theatre Young Writer's Programme, getting involved in youth theatre, studying law, challenging your own beliefs and attitudes, moral ambiguity and growing up in Malvern.

Duncan doesn't plug anything but you can find him here:

https://twitter.com/duncan_gates

http://thethingsthatarenotthere.wordpress.com/

I plug:

http://www.davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk

We mention:

Matt Hill: http://rethinkdaily.co.uk/

Malvern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvern,_Worcestershire

Grease: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_(musical)

Oh What A Lovely War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_What_a_Lovely_War

UB65: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_UB-65

Charles Bukowski: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski

John Steinbeck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Mice_and_Men

Festival Theatre: http://www.malvern-theatres.co.uk/events/venues/festival/

Theatre of Small Convenience: http://www.wctheatre.co.uk/

Shakespeare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

Alien: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)

Royal Court Theatre: http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/

West Yorkshire Playhouse: http://www.wyp.org.uk/

Richard:

The Weir: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weir

Donmar: http://www.donmarwarehouse.com/

Sarah Kane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Kane

UEA: https://www.uea.ac.uk/

ATOS: http://uk.atos.net/en-uk/home.html

Professor X: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_X

Karl Popper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper

Black Swan Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

DV8: http://dv8.co.uk/

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In GBA 183 we get better acquainted with Vicky who I met through the Ministry of Stories where she works and we talk about engaging children through creative writing, working in a Monster Supplies shop, the human capacity for learning, how the French Horn is received in folk clubs, commuting between the country and the city, the joys of birdwatching, navigating the education system and so much more.

Vicky plugs:

Her band the flowing: https://www.facebook.com/theflowing

Birdwatching

We mention:

Ministry of Stories: http://www.ministryofstories.org/

Ministry of Stories on Cbeebies: http://bit.ly/MiScbeebies

Poetry Garden: http://www.ministryofstories.org/planting-poetry/

Acrostic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrostic

Mesostic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesostic

Matt Hill: http://rethinkdaily.co.uk/

The Story: http://thestory.org.uk/

Hoxton Monster Supplies: http://www.monstersupplies.org/

Plainchant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plainsong

Early Folk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music#Early_folk_music.2C_fieldwork_and_scholarship

Yann Tiersen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_Tiersen

Apples for Everyone: https://soundcloud.com/applesforeveryone

Isle of Grain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Grain

Boris Johnson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson

How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Bad-Birdwatcher-Greater-Glory/dp/1904977057

Jem Rolls: https://www.facebook.com/jem.rolls.1 - Bird Poem: https://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/track/i-know-what-the-birds-are-thinking-and-i-understand-that-look-in-their-eyes

RSPB Website bird songs: http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdidentifier/

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In GBA 182 we get better acquainted with Reni Eddo-Lodge. She talks about coming to mainstream journalism via activism and blogging, analyzing how power works, how the both the left and the media are held back by viewing everything through the lens of middle class white men, the "Great Intersectionality Wars" of 2012, black feminism, cultural capital, critical race theory and more. If that makes the conversation sound academic and dry then let me assure you it really isn't. The conversation takes place in a busy cafe in Hackney, Reni is battling the end of an illness, I am battling my privilege based ignorance, but despite that we manage to have a great conversation about race, class, gender and the media.

http://renieddolodge.co.uk/

Reni plugs:

Email her if you want her to speak at things you are doing: http://renieddolodge.co.uk/contact/

You can find her online at: https://twitter.com/renireni

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Horror: https://www.facebook.com/events/707597412628896/

Tragic Friends Act 3: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-friends-act-3

We mention:

Focus E15 Mum's: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-179-focus-e15-mothers

https://twitter.com/FocusE15

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Focus-E15-Mothers/602860129757343

Facebook Egg Freezing: http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/21/facebook-apple-egg-freezing-virgin-unlimited-holidays-business-benefits

Channel 4 Best Young Blogger Award: http://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2010/oct/25/channel-4-britains-best-young-blogger-louise-jones

Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/

Intersectionality: http://www.feministtimes.com/call-yourself-an-intersectional-feminist/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10572435/Intersectional-feminism.-What-the-hell-is-it-And-why-you-should-care.html

Billy Bragg: http://www.billybragg.co.uk/

Critical Race Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

Kimberley Crenshaw: http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2014/04/kimberl-crenshaw-intersectionality-i-wanted-come-everyday-metaphor-anyone-could

Kimberley Crenshaw's LSE lecture: http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2014/03/20140326t1830vOT.aspx

Marx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/

Intersectionality Wars of 2012: http://www.utne.com/community/intersectionality-zm0z14uzwil.aspx#axzz3Gs0ZAAWL

http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2012/10/a_problem_that

Sheryl Sandberg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg

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