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Woman's Hour: Arooj Aftab, PIP implants, Race, trauma & culture, Reclaiming sexist language

04/06/2021

Arooj Aftab, PIP implants, Race, trauma & culture, Reclaiming sexist language

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Arooj Aftab, PIP implants, Race, trauma & culture, Reclaiming sexist language

Arooj Aftab; PIP implants; Race, trauma and culture; Reclaiming sexist language.

Arooj Aftab, PIP implants, Race, trauma & culture, Sexist language and women.

Arooj Aftab is a Pakistani composer, based in Brooklyn. She joins Anita to talk about her music and influences from jazz and Qawwali to Jeff Buckley and Abidi Parveen. She explains how grief has shifted the tone of her music to ‘heavy metal harp’, and discusses her latest album, Vulture Prince, which honours and reimagines centuries-old ghazals, a form of South Asian poetry and music that she grew up listening to with her family.

Now the dust has settled on the recent court ruling on compensation for women with PIP Implants, it's become clear a group of women will miss out.  The French court ruled that those who had implants pre 2006 will not get any money, as it decided the safety regulator who approved the implants for market couldn't have been aware of any problems before that date. Lawyers representing the women will go back to the French supreme court to fight this. Melanie Abbott has been looking into this.

Therapist and researcher, Guilaine Kinouni’s book Living While Black looks at the racial inequalities within the mental health system and their consequences for Black people. She is joined by author, academic, and broadcaster Emma Dabiri whose new book What White People Can Do Next looks at racial justice and how we demonstrations of support can be transformed into real and meaningful change.

Language – and the way we use it – is forever changing. We explore how the word ‘bitch’ and other similar words with a sexist history are being reclaimed and reinvented by women to mean something positive. Chante Joseph is a social media creative and writer. Jacqueline Springer is a Black music and culture journalist. Helen Taylor is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Exeter.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Frankie Tobi

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