May 2013
6 posts
“Why Society Still Needs Feminism
Because to men, a key is a device to open...”
– Caitlin O’Donnell, Drake University. (via on-another-note)
….there’s more, lighthearted and much less so. Worth a read.
"Angelina Jolie, arguably one of the most desired... →
Yesterday, Angelina Jolie announced her decision to get a preventative double mastectomy. Hollywood writer Jessica Queller writes about facing the same choice—and how Jolie’s decision is a game-changer.
Jessica Queller wrote “Pretty Is What Changes” about her own prophylactic double mastectomy (and has written for Gilmore Girls, Felicity, Gossip Girl, Ed & Vegas).
April 2013
12 posts
Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk →
The brillz Nilofer Merchant points out a silent public health crisis - sitting, which we spend, on average, 9.3 hours doing daily. ”In this way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation,” says Nilofer - who started swapping out sit-down meetings for walk n’ talks. Awesome (and short!) talk. Even better idea.
“I JUST noticed something strange on Wikipedia. It appears that gradually, over...”
– Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists - NYTimes.com (via techladymafia)
WOW.
: If Jill Abramson were a man... →
annfriedman:
She’s a source of widespread frustration and anxiety who is demoralizing, uncaring, morale-draining, and very unpopular. He demands excellence and relevance.
She is difficult to work with, unreasonable, impossible, stubborn. He has a strong vision and insists on seeing it carried out.
She is AWOL and disengaged. He attended Sundance and SXSW.
She is not a naturally charismatic...
"The world I have entered as a traveling mother is... →
Why do airlines pretend that kids don’t exist?
Fantastic (and very funny) piece by the divine Rachel Simmons on the dearth of changing tables on airplanes: “’We don’t have one on this plane. It’s an older model,’” the flight attendant explained. A sign next to her head read, “Wi-Fi on this aircraft.” I wondered if she knew that babies preceded the invention of the airplane and...
“Anne and those with her were attacked by the Taliban terrorists who woke up that...”
– Secretary of State John Kerry • Discussing the death of Anne Smedinghoff, a 25-year-old U.S. Foreign Service Officer who was killed when delivering books to a school in Afghanistan. (Her group was ambushed by the Taliban, and she was one of six Americans killed Saturday.) Kerry, who had met the...
“I’m not going to lie to you, kiddo: you’ve got some rough seas ahead. For the...”
– Via Dear Teen Me http://dearteenme.com/?p=5055&fb_source=pubv1 (via starstruckbyshukert)
Rachel Shukert is filled with wisdom. And her Smash recaps are like crack.
WatchHillary Clinton at Women In The World 2013, introduced by Tina Brown. Marvelous.
March 2013
15 posts
"While reasonable people can disagree about what's... →
The definitive post on L’Affaire Adria by Sarah Milstein. Lucid and smart, with essential context.
On Adria Richards & SendGrid
You don’t have to agree with Adria Richards’ actions at PyCon to be appalled by the sorry mess it’s become.
SendGrid made a massive mistake here - presumably they hired Adria Richards based on her record and experience. Presumably they interviewed her. Presumably they knew she had a blog and that it was called, “But You’re A Girl” - which presumably they...
"Notice how I disagreed with some of Richards'... →
Courtney Stanton, “A Woman Walks Into A Tech Conference,” BuzzFeed
BraceLand: #SupportAdria →
cbracy:
It’s a low day for the tech industry: it seems that SendGrid has fired Adria Richards.
For those who don’t know, Adria was at PyCon sitting through a plenary session when some men behind her starting making “dongle” jokes. You get the idea. Adria (who was SendGrid’s developer evangelist), fed up with having to sit through sexist crap at tech conferences all the time, took a picture of...
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"How many conversations have I had with young... →
From “Who’s Afraid of Sheryl Sandberg?” by the great Katha Pollitt.
More:
Yes, Sandberg emphasizes individual initiative: Given the pervasiveness of sexism, how can women help themselves? Her critics don’t want to hear from psychology, and yet it’s true enough that women put themselves down in order to be liked, don’t speak up in public, wait to be asked. Much of what she...
"All is not just in the gendered world, and we... →
Rebecca Traister on Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead.
Sandberg has no time for biologically determined stereotypes and suggests that men should “lean in” at home. “Even if ‘mother knows best’ is rooted in biology,” she grudgingly offers, “it need not be written in stone…. Yes, someone needs to remember what goes into the lunch box, but … it does not have to...
“As a girl, I was acutely sensitive to how girls who looked like me were treated...”
– T.F. Charlton: Let Me Explain Why The Onion’s Quvenzhané Wallis Tweet Was so Hurtful. [Bitch]
Amazing piece. Worth a read.
And also, this:
For those who need any more evidence that this protest mattered, note the fact that many white men, including former Onion staffers, have taken to the...
WatchAmanda Palmer, “The Art of Asking,” TED 2013.
The musician, artist and crowdfunding envelope-pusher speaks about art, community, and trust on Feb. 27, 2013, at TED. (She also performed several times throughout the conference, including on the final day with a stunning rendition of “Bed Song.” She also had “Amanda Fucking Palmer” as part of her official bio....
February 2013
28 posts
“I think journalism schools should have workshops... →
Amazing piece from Marin Cogan at TNR: “The psycho-sexual ordeal of reporting in Washington.”
Her personal contribution to the story saddened me, but sounded all too familiar:
As a political reporter for GQ, I’ve been jokingly asked whether I ever posed for the magazine and loudly called a porn star by a senior think-tank fellow at his institute’s annual gala. In my prior job as a...
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Are You Awesome? $1000 Says You Are
The Harnisch Foundation and the Awesome Foundation have joined forces to create Awesome Without Borders, a virtual chapter making bequests weekly. And seeking applications.
To be clear, they are giving away $1000 a WEEK, not once a month. You don’t have to have a charitable project, or have a 501c3 designation, or an organization…you need an Awesome idea and you need to apply. Tell the...
"It wouldn’t be funny if he sang, “We saw your... →
Seth McFarlane and his all-male cadre of writers saw your boobs, you Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated women. And ABC/Disney and The Oscars greenlit him making it the focus of your work before a billion people. Oh, come on, can’t you take a joke?
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Julie Fredrickson Abbreviated: The "IT" Crowd... →
juliefredrickson:
I wanted to be one of those founders, you know, the type that gets silly valuations and love from the name brand ventures firms, the type that gets written up by the tech press, the sort that powerful angels vouch for and send around glowing intros for as being “the next big thing,” and the sort that jets around to conferences. In other words, I got wrapped up in the idea of...
TheLi.st Pop-Up Summit NYC Sunday, Feb. 17th -...
Still time to get tickets for TheLi.st Pop-Up Summit tomorrow! Our agenda and speaker roster is below. There is a cocktail party after. What else could *possibly* be more important?
AGENDA
11:30am - 12pm - Arrival, registration, coffee, donuts, nametags
12 - 12:10pm - Welcome! #GetListed (Rachel Sklar & Glynnis MacNicol)
12:10 - 12:45pm - Social Storytelling (Alli Goldberg, Jen Jamula,...
On Asteroids Hurtling Toward Earth (or, Change The...
Email from former Astronaut and International Space Station resident Ed Lu, now the founder of the B612 Foundation, which is building a massive space telescope to hunt asteroids that might be hurtling toward earth. No biggie.
The B612 Foundation believes we should find threatening asteroids before they find us. Today’s meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk is a wake-up call that the Earth orbits...
This, With The Pronouns Switched
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does...
Kate Spencer: On Seeing Lena Dunham Naked →
katespencer:
When I was 10 years old, some moms in my fifth grade class organized an end of the year pool party for our entire class. It was one of the first times I can recall being sent into a tailspin of anxiety for weeks, because it meant I had to wear a bathing suit in front of my classmates. After many…
Well (and honestly) said, Kate Spencer. The backlash against Lena Dunham’s body...
“And another regrettable thing about death
is the ceasing of your own brand of...”
– John Updike, “Perfection Wasted”
