Sian Norris is a writer and investigative journalist who worked as chief European and social affairs reporter at the Byline Times in the United Kingdom, where she covered far-right groups and their move into the mainstream. Norris is a leading voice in the British feminist movement and has been published in The Guardian, the New Statesman and many other publications. She’s the author of the eye-opening book “Bodies Under Siege: How The Far Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global.”
“It is so shocking that these Christian nationalist U.S. groups are going overseas and spreading their poison,” Norris reveals to “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. “I started looking into it more and increasingly started to see these organizations from the U.S. getting very active in national politics in Europe. So whether that was LGBT rights referendums or abortion politics or abortion referendums, we kept seeing these same names, these same organizations popping up.”
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Upcoming guests include New York Times columnist Charles Blow, Brenda Wineapple, author of “Keeping the Faith” (a new book on the Scopes Trial), Tia Levings, author of “A Well-Trained Wife,” Matthew D. Taylor, author of “The Violent Take It By Force,” and Josh Cowen, author of “The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers.” You can catch interviews from earlier this fall, including with Rep. Jared Huffman, and from previous seasons here, including with Gloria Steinem, Ron Reagan, author John Irving, actor John “Q” de Lancie and award-winning columnist Katha Pollitt.
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