The View From A Broad
Hi welcome to The View From A Broad. I'm Teresa Norton and this podcast dives into my past, revisiting columns I wrote for the South China Morning Post between 1993 and 2000 during my 40 years living in Hong Kong.
These often funny, sometimes tender, occasionally provocative musings cover everything from marriage and working motherhood, to national identity and global events. As a weekly columnist I aimed to capture the quirks of human interactions, carve up a few sacred cows and tell it like it is... but did I? In the 30 years since those columns were written much has changed and... so have I.
In each episode I read a column and talk to a guest about how the piece stands up today - what still rings true and what feels out of sync with today’s world. They then share a true story from their past that's been unearthed by something in the column.
The result is an engaging and honest conversation about the evolution of social norms, culture and humor, re-examining the past through the lens of today’s values.
By looking back with compassion and curiosity, my hope is that The View From A Broad encourages reflection on how our perspectives have changed... or not... and why.
The View From A Broad
Dancing Queen Without a King | Teresa talks to Dana Spade
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Do men and women still dance with each other? I don't mean on celebrity dance-offs or bouncing up and down as a group at a concert. I mean in each other's arms, cheek to cheek... or at the very least facing one another.
In the 1990's I wrote a column bemoaning the fact that my then-husband had dismissed the idea of joining me to learn to tango, samba, waltz and cha-cha.
Would I ever find that man who would clasp my hand in his, place his other hand in the small of my back and glide me round a dance floor? I did - in what would then have been described as a "gay" bar - and his name was Job, but it might just as well have been Fred (Astaire) or Gene (Kelly) or Ginger (Rogers).
Join me and my guest, former litigator, prosecutor and now retired judge, Dana Spade for a conversation that explores the etiquette of straight women in queer bars, the advent of tick tock and the effect of technology on socialization.
Dana who met her husband on an Aikido mat, shares about that martial art as a dance of self-defense, and we talk about the importance of creating environments today where young people can go a bit wild and still feel safe.
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