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Patsy Ferguson

Patsy Ferguson

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Fourth Wave, an international feminist magazine on Medium with 70k+ followers.

Jun 19, 2026

7:36
So did you realize how international it would become? You know, was there a specific cultural moment where you felt, oh, there's something shifting here? Like, what's what? What is this? What is this that I've just created?
7:48
Well, I didn't realize when I started it.
7:51
I really didn't.
7:51
I just I thought it would be mostly American women.
7:54
I'm from the US.
7:56
And as I said, when I got that first poem, which was ironically from a man, a young man, and he contributed for a long while at that time, Nigeria wasn't part of the partner program.
8:08
And so that means those writers weren't getting paid.

47 MINS LATER

54:51
Patsy, if you could also step in, that would be amazing right now.

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