45: Greta Thunberg, #MeToo and Venus de Milo

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This week, we discuss Greta Thunberg's incredibly brave and inspiring climate activism and the criticism that she received, that 19 million people used the hashtag #MeToo in the year following the Harvey Weinstein scandal bringing thousands of years of suffering and silence to the surface on the world stage, and finally we have another sculpture, the Venus de Milo and talk about the accessibility of the history of art world. www.instagram.com/figurepodcast/ www.twitter.com/FigurePodcast/ thefigurepodcast@gmail.com (mailto:thefigurepodcast@gmail.com) Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations: When you know better, you do better. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/when-you-know-better-you-do-better/id1264843400?i=1000445188908 Happy Place: Elizabeth Gilbert, presented by Fearne Cotton https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/elizabeth-gilbert/id1353058891?i=1000444998858 So I got to thinking, presented by Juno Dawson and Dylan B Jones ttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/so-i-got-to-thinking/id1477109732 (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/so-i-got-to-thinking/id1477109732) The Doctor's Farmacy with Mark Hyman, M.D. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-doctors-farmacy-with-mark-hyman-m-d/id1382804627 How to Fail: Camilla Thurlowe, presented by Elizabeth Day https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s6-ep1-how-to-fail-camilla-thurlow/id1407451189?i=1000451142520 The Testaments, written by Margaret Atwood https://www.amazon.co.uk/Testaments-Handmaids-Tale-Margaret-Atwood/dp/1784742325 Inside Out: A memoir, written by Demi Moore https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Out-Memoir-Demi-Moore/dp/0062049534 Circe, Madeline Miller https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Madeline-Miller/Circe--The-International-No-1-Bestseller---Shortlisted-fo/21229094 The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/308/308434/the-silence-of-the-girls/9780241983201.html The Surface Breaks, Louise O'Neill https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Louise-ONeill/The-Surface-Breaks-a-reimagining-of-The-Little-Mermaid/21234869 Fierce Fairytales, Nikita Gill https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Nikita-Gill/Fierce-Fairytales---Other-Stories-to-Stir-Your-Soul/22235553 Figure 1: Greta Thunberg Greta Thunberg addressing the UN, September 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KxE4Kv9A8 School strike for climate - save the world by changing the rules, Greta Thunberg, TEDxStockholm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmmUIEsN9A Greta Thunberg: My Asperger’s is a ‘superpower’, Tom Parfitt https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greta-thunberg-my-aspergers-is-a-superpower-d9qv98v08 How big was the global climate strike? 4 million people, activists estimate. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/9/20/20876143/climate-strike-2019-september-20-crowd-estimate Figure 2: The #MeToo hashtag has been used over 19 million times on Twitter Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the two New York Times reporters who wrote the story that ended Harvey Weinstein's career, interviewed by Teri Gross on Fresh Air https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759384251/she-said-reveals-the-people-and-practices-that-protected-weinstein?t=1570129292530 19 million tweets later: A look at #MeToo a year after the hashtag went viral, Dalvin Brown https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/10/13/metoo-impact-hashtag-made-online/1633570002/ Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07hbyjc Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories, Ronan Farrow https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories Harvey Weinstein case: What next after criminal charges filed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44264495 Ways to Change the World: Rose McGowan, presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rose-mcgowan-on-weinstein-growing-up-in-cult-running/id1359195562?i=1000431210941 Figure 3: Venus de Milo The Mysterious History of the Marble ‘Venus de Milo’ Statue, by Kelly Richman-Abdou https://mymodernmet.com/venus-de-milo-statue/ Aphrodite, known as the "Venus de Milo" https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/aphrodite-known-venus-de-milo                                                                                                                                  Venus de Milo https://www.britannica.com/topic/Venus-de-Milo 15 Things You Should Know About 'Venus de Milo', Kristy Puchko http://mentalfloss.com/article/65911/15-things-you-should-know-about-venus-de-milo Great Goddesses: Life lessons from myths and monsters, Nikita Gill https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Nikita-Gill/Great-Goddesses--Life-lessons-from-myths-and-monsters/23864530 The views expressed in this podcast are our own, not those of the firms we work for.