Women's Rights

Sword and Scale Nightmares

Incongruity

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

“Artist, women’s rights activist, Japanese immigrant, renowned arts professor”. These are the words that describe Rie Hachiyanagi, a paper artist living and working in Massachusetts at Mount Holyoke College. When she discovered her friend in serious danger one night in December of 2019, Rie revealed to the world her multi-faceted personality. There was more to Rie than those around her could see.

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0:00.0	In December of 2019, Japanese immigrant Rihachi-anagi was just trying to make her way
0:17.1	in the world.
0:19.1	Since moving to the US in the 90s, she had landed a career as a college professor at a prestigious
0:24.4	university.
0:26.4	She even had a few friends, but she wanted more out of life.
0:31.6	She created a name for herself working on behalf of women's rights and made herself known
0:37.3	in the art world.
0:39.3	Rih never could have imagined that a single interaction with another woman would change
0:46.0	her life forever.
0:56.4	Welcome to Sword and Scale Nightmares, True Crime for Bedtime, where Nightmare begins
1:09.4	now.
1:24.3	Rihachi-anagi was a young girl born in Sapporo, Japan.
1:30.0	She came over to the United States as a high school exchange student and settled in Kansas,
1:35.8	which is not exactly the most beautiful first impression of the United States.
1:42.5	Growing up, Rih struggled to communicate with everyone around her.
1:46.6	English didn't come naturally to her, and initially she bottled up her frustrations.
1:52.7	Soon though, she found an alternative way to express her emotions through art.
1:59.4	Rih began learning paper making, a skill that would stick with her and evolve throughout
2:05.6	her later career.
2:07.6	Rih eventually went on to get her master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California
2:13.4	and landed a teaching job at the Alfred University in New York.
2:18.4	This was not her final career stop though, in 2004 we got a job at Mount Holioch College
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