{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/a9244999-e1b8-4ee2-b738-8b3d646d526b/28f8ff79-7e98-4dd0-92a6-4cedf345e0d2?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Obama on Wokeness & Our Love for Modern Love <3","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9ffa71a8cbe89e33cf086/61bb1bdd57f5d700129b9c00.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>This week we discuss Snapchat dysmorphia, the data-collection of period-tracking apps and why Dolly wants&nbsp;to shag Autumn. Also today we discuss Obama's speech-gone-viral on wokeness - which wasn't really about wokeness but on seeking not to shame, or humiliate others, in the name of&nbsp;progress. Is there space for Obama's brand of gradualism - or do we actually need radical change?</p><p><br></p><p>And we talk about&nbsp;Amazon Prime's Modern Love, based&nbsp;on the New York Times column, which we have both fallen hook, line and sinker for - because we are but sentimental fools.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>E-mail&nbsp;</strong><a href=\"mailto:thehighlowshow@gmail.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>thehighlowshow@gmail.com</strong></a></p><p><strong>Tweet @thehighlowshow</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Links&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Modern Love on Amazon Prime&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Love-Season-1/dp/B07VNF5351\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Love-Season-1/dp/B07VNF5351</a></p><p><br></p><p>Modern Love, Edited by Daniel Jones&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.waterstones.com/book/modern-love/daniel-jones/9780307351043\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.waterstones.com/book/modern-love/daniel-jones/9780307351043</a></p><p><br></p><p>One Dimensional Woman, by Nina Power&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Dimensional-Woman-Zero-Books/dp/1846942411\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Dimensional-Woman-Zero-Books/dp/1846942411</a></p><p><br></p><p>Sabotage, by Emma Gannon for The Pound Project&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poundproject/the-pound-project-part-six-emma-gannon\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poundproject/the-pound-project-part-six-emma-gannon</a></p><p><br></p><p>Exposure, by Olivia&nbsp;Sudjic&nbsp;<a href=\"https://peninsulapress.co.uk/product/exposure\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://peninsulapress.co.uk/product/exposure</a></p><p><br></p><p>A Woman's Beauty: Put Down or Power Source? By Susan Sontag, 1975&nbsp;<a href=\"http://www.wheelersburg.net/Downloads/Sontag.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.wheelersburg.net/Downloads/Sontag.pdf</a></p><p><br></p><p>The&nbsp;backlash against birth control apps, by Olivia Sudjic for The Guardian&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/21/colossally-naive-backlash-birth-control-app\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jul/21/colossally-naive-backlash-birth-control-app</a></p><p><br></p><p>Malaika Jabali on Obama&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/01/does-obamas-critique-of-radical-politics-help-bring-about-the-change-he-wanted\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/01/does-obamas-critique-of-radical-politics-help-bring-about-the-change-he-wanted</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Sarah Ditum on Obama&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/02/barack-obama-right-you-dont-change-minds-by-damning-your-opponents\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/02/barack-obama-right-you-dont-change-minds-by-damning-your-opponents</a></p><p><br></p><p>I walked out on my husband and kids for true love, by anon for The Sunday Times Magazine&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-walked-out-on-my-husband-and-kids-for-true-love-and-im-not-going-to-live-with-aching-regret-8xnjkgqpd\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-walked-out-on-my-husband-and-kids-for-true-love-and-im-not-going-to-live-with-aching-regret-8xnjkgqpd</a></p><p><br></p><p>Instagram might be removing plastic surgery filters, but what about the skin lightening ones? By Ellie Abraham for gal-dem&nbsp;<a...","author_name":"Pandora Sykes and Dolly Alderton"}