Can you see the rainbow?
What a week!
I spent it more connected to the news cycle and the social media hive mind than I like to be. I’m spending the weekend trying to disconnect from technology (she said typing words on a glowing screen!).
This is all to say that I don’t have much to say this week, but I do have some links to share.
Until next time,
Clare
Recommendations
This book has been floating around in my mind/social feeds. I’m not sure that I’m gonna read it (not enough time, ironically!) but this podcast made me think.
An conversation about heteropessimism (via Jessica Stanley)
Dr Tressie McMillan Cottom is someone I always learn something from. This short video of her just describing what she does makes me want to pause it and take notes. (If you haven’t read Thick, you’ve got an intellectual treat ahead of you!)
I finally finished season 3 of Succession. My least favourite season so far but the very last frame makes me think I’m gonna need to watch season 4 too.
After devouring lots of Anna Delvey #content (the article, the podcast, the interview with the author of the article), I’m now watching the Netflix show. Jessica Pressler was the journalist who wrote the original story. I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention this podcast where she deftly handles a huge foot-in-mouth moment by the interviewer! She also wrote the piece which inspired Hustlers! (This was also an important perspective from the woman who wrote the Vanity Fair article.)
Currently reading (& loving) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
I read somewhere that if one was to read Parul Seghal’s ‘The case against the Trauma Plot’ followed by Brandon Taylor’s critique of it, you will have gone on a journey. I can’t remember who said it but they were right. Read both and then think about them all week.
You need to take breaks! (I am awful at this but you should still click the link!)
How to handle the Joe Rogan/Spotify mess: Brene Brown, Roxane Gay.
A cool visualization of women in headlines.
Mary H.K. Choi is back doing her short daily podcasts. And, Glennon Doyle spoke about her recent eating disorder relapse. (& part 2) To me, these podcasts feel like a public service.
