Season 5 Episode 3: In conversation with Salomée Lou
Meet Salomée Lou, a Brighton-based bookseller and creative who loves poetry, emotions lost in translation, words as spells and anything related to writing, sisterhood, and witchcraft.
We’ve been following each other for a while on Instagram, so this chat felt long overdue and we could have kept going. I was excited to chat to Salomée, especially about our shared love of translated literature, as well as her experience of life in the UK as a French native. It was lovely to hear about her life in Brighton, which is a very queer friendly place, and how uses clothes to express herself.
Of course, we also spoke about Salomée’s relationship with feminism, past, present and future. I was particularly moved by her account of when she first knew she was a die-hard feminist. It’s also worth mentioning that this was Salomée’s firs time talking on a podcast, in English en plus, and she did a stellar job. Enjoy!
SHOW NOTES:
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
Babel by R. F. Kuang
BFFS by Anahit Behrooz
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
Poetry, translated literature, francophone lit
3 Times Rebel Publishing House