Sheela Na Gig Episode 13: Emily Hahn

"Chances are, your grandmother didn't smoke cigars and let you hold wild role-playing parties in her apartment-Chances are that she didn't teach you Swahili obscenities. Chances are that when she took you to the zoo, she didn't start whooping passionately at the top of her lungs as you passed the gibbon cage”. Sadly for you ... your grandmother was not." Emily "Mickey" Hahn was an American journalist and writer. Considered an early feminist and called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of over 54 books and more than 200 articles and short stories. Emily Hahn traveled across the country dressed as a boy in the 1920s; ran away to the Belgian Congo as a Red Cross worker during the Great Depression; was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s; had an illegitimate child with the head of the British Secret Service in Hong Kong just before the outbreak of World War II; was involved in underground relief work in occupied Hong Kong; and moved back to the United States and became a pioneer in the fields of wildlife preservation and environmentalism before her death in 1997 at the age of ninety-two. She was a feminist trailblazer before the word even existed!! We were so thrilled to learn about this “Sheela” from our special guest, Jen Hitchcock of LA Bookshow fame! Mickey is going to rock your world, so listen in & let us know what you think!?

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