Sea Hags Podcast

Alexa Dredge joins us to discuss what happens when your good idea takes off with you clutching the back bumper. Alexa and Katie met in the third year of their BAs at SFU and subsequently went on to co-author the Harassment on Translink project for a 4th year seminar. Almost immediately, the local media ran with the story and the two undergrads found themselves as the somewhat underqualified mouthpieces for the innumerable folks who had been sexually harassed or assaulted on transit in Vancouver. The quest for a decent grade on a group project became an occasionally exhausting multi-year commitment to a public safety campaign. We look at the friendships that are forged in the fires of activism, how far dark humour can go to offset burnout, MRA hate mail, and how long you can realistically expect someone to work for free, no matter how good the cause.