A Podcast of One's Own with Julia Gillard

Angela Saini on the origins of patriarchy

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Mar 3, 2023
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Formative Move To Racist Environment

  • Angela Saini recounts moving from a multicultural East London to a predominantly white area at age ten and facing racist violence and marches.
  • That experience pushed her into anti-racist activism and set her on the path to journalism.
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Blending In As The Only Woman

  • Angela describes being one of few girls in engineering and feeling she must blend in to avoid attention.
  • She changed clothing and appearance to be less visible in STEM classrooms.
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Switching From Engineering To Journalism

  • Angela explains she shifted from engineering to journalism after student activism and writing for the student paper.
  • An internship careers advisor encouraged her to try journalism since she had a marketable engineering fallback.
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