Weekend Reads How to discuss Bill Cosby with Bill Cosby apologists. (SLTA) She Fell Nearly 2 Miles, and Walked Away: At 17, biologist Juliane Diller was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Amazon. Fifty years later she still runs Panguana, a research station founded by her parents in Peru. (New York Times)… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #159
Weekend Reads Get inspired by these 12 over-40 TikTok and Insta style influencers (featuring yours truly!). (TueNight) The Teamsters are trying to unionize Amazon. (Vice) What do we owe our jobs? (The Riveter) How Joni Mitchell shattered gender barriers when women couldn’t even have their own credit cards. (Los Angeles Times) Great tips from YLF… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #158
Weekend Reads Victoria’s Secret is getting rid of their Angels and replacing them with a new group of women icons, including Megan Rapinoe, Paloma Elsesser, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. This is being called the VS Collective. Do you think it can revitalize this brand or is it too late? (New York Times) Adidas launches period-proof… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #157
I am away with my family so this Weekend’s Reads will be brief. I hope you all are finding times to unplug and escape. Weekend Reads What will you wear in life after Zoom? Clothing brands like Athleta, Target, Wilson make a big bet that all-day workout wear is here to stay. (Chicago Tribune) The… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #156
I know I am not the only one who found this past year tried, destroyed, strengthened, or altered a friendship or other close relationship. A friendship with someone I considered one of my best friends ended and it has had me think a lot about our relationship, how it came to end, my role, their… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #155
Weekend Reads What has this school Year cost America’s children? (Men Yell At Me) Masks are off — which means men will start telling women to ‘Smile!’ again. (Washington Post) Do I have an aesthetic? (Vogue) When your home Is a hormonal hellscape: puberty and perimenopause are a heady combination. (New York Times) MoMA built… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #154
Weekend Reads I was seriously obsessed with Sinead O’Connor as a high schooler and kept my obsession under wraps after the SNL experience. I often think how different that moment would have been taken in current times. Loved reading about O’Connor now and how positively she took being “canceled” back then. (New York Times) Flint… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #153
Weekend Reads Since the first two Palestinian intifadas, camera phones and social media have changed the landscape of global outrage. (The Intercept) Working remotely for the last year has revealed just how much of office culture is accidental, arbitrary, and sexist. (Neiman Lab) The inadequacy of the term “Asian American”. (Vox) How online harassment became… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #152
While America is starting to open up with over 30% of adults already vaccinated (Becker’s Hospital Review), other parts of the world are still on lockdown. And in India, COVID is raging on with numbers exceeding what our world experienced a year ago. India only has about 2% of its population vaccinated. Their hospitals are… Continue Reading Weekend Reads #151