Anna Holmes turns the negative into a positive

Standard Issue Podcast by Standard Issue

Aug 17, 202626:25Society & Culture

When it comes to saying no, journalist and author Anna Holmes has form. Back in 2007, she founded feminist website Jezebel, which at the time was a big old flip of the bird to traditional women’s media, and went on to ch...

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