Featured poem: How to be Hopeful by Barbara Kingsolver 

Featured topics: mascara, nuclear fallout, objectification but it’s okay, thigh high boots, and survival instincts for girls.

Poem read with permission from the author. 

Theme song by Allegra Ritchie.

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