EP2: The Question is Everything
Clare and Yves are joined by Jess Hill, award-winning journalist, television presenter, and author of the 2020 Stella Prize winner See What You Made Me Do (2019). Hill’s book puts perpetrators - and the systems that enable them - in the spotlight. Too often, Hill writes, “we ask the wrong question: Why didn’t she leave? We should be asking: Why did he do it?” The group discusses overcoming rage and confronting internalized misogyny, the emotional complexities of the human archive, and eating stolen academic journal articles for breakfast.
If you are in Australia and issues raised in this episode of Archive Fever have caused distress:
https://www.lifeline.org.au 13 11 14
https://www.wire.org.au 1300 134 130
https://www.1800respect.org.au 1800 737 732
For further information about primary prevention of domestic abuse:
https://www.ourwatch.org.au
Yves, Clare, and Jess Hill recording Archive Fever.
Jess’s website:
https://www.jesshill.net
Follow Jess on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jessradio?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Listen to Jess’s podcast series on domestic abuse, The Trap:
https://the-trap.simplecast.com
Front cover of Jess Hill’s See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse
Buy See What You Made Me Do here:
https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/see-what-you-made-me-do
SWYMMD book club notes:
https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/sites/default/files/SWYMMD_Book-Club-Notes%20%281%29.pdf
See What You Made Me Do television documentary:
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/see-what-you-made-me-do