LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "After The Fall" Edition
subscribe to this list | update subscription preferences
View this email in your browser
Dear Readers,
I'm so sorry for the death of Ruth Ginsburg. I'm sorry because it confirms that there's no such thing as collective will directed to keep someone alive or for our magical thinking to ultimately halt a disease's progression. If that were true, she'd have lived forever. Or at least 'til November 4th or so. Deepest sympathy to her family and legions of peers, friends, supporters.
In January of 2018 I saw Justice Ginsburg speak, twice, in person, at The Sundance Festival. She swooped in and out for a couple of days like the biggest stars of the festival do. You feel their presence even if you never lay eyes on them. Stories of sightings are swapped like currency as you stand in line or while you are sipping wine at some event. Usually the stars can only spare a day or two because, well, they're famous and their time is itself meted out like a commodity. Scarcity breeds demand. Or just to get out of the limelight because it's a crush at Sundance, everywhere you go. Or, to be fair, they are often rushing to get back to their film shoots. I would imagine that few finish their star turn on Main Street and head back to D.C. to go alter the course of history.
The first time she spoke was after we watched the premiere of her ultra-enjoyable, engrossing biography-doc, RBG. She teeter-tottered out of the viewing audience just a row or two in front of me, being drawn up and out to participate in the film-makers Q&A. Not a soul left the auditorium. Co-directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West did a marvelous job with a marvelous subject. I wrote in this newsletter, at the time, that it was a film whose subject was presented in such a way as to appear un-extraordinary, as she set about doing extraordinary things. She seemed to go about her business of being a Jewish girl, working hard, getting an education, falling in love, and getting a job like anyone else. Except at each step along the way she was thinking so far beyond the realm of the regular, achieving -- or being denied -- an ambition and skill so heightened and serious that it's cumulative effect snuck up on me. It is a beautiful portrait.
It was also a crowning moment at the peak momentum of the first wave of the #MeToo movement. That shorthand phrase was still somewhat newly re-ignited by social media, a decade or so after its coinage. The movie's premiere weekend was around the first anniversary of The Women's March on Washington, which had debuted the year before on the occasion of the Presidential Inauguration. The Ronan Farrow/New Yorker and Kantor/Twohey/New York Times pieces exposing, so to speak, Harvey Weinstein's lifetime of miserable and criminal behavior had run just a few months before. Speaking directly to the MeToo movement's mission and her own experience, she did this one-on-one interview which, having just seen the film, was even more powerful. She was a deceptively teeny, tiny dynamo.
So, tomorrow and next Sunday when I am at the cemetery saying Yizkor for my Father, Aunt, Uncle, Grandparents, and so many others, I'll say it for her, too. It's not lost on anyone that she died on Rosh Hashanah eve, when many of us were ourselves in the throes of philosophical ponderings about the year ending and the one about to begin, goals denied and achieved, losses born and wins taken away. Heavy.
We'll be back to lighter topics soon enough, including the thrilling conclusion--hopefully--of the great mattress debate of 2020. There's till time to weigh in -- no decisions have been made but a couple of contenders are certainly emerging.
In the meantime, read the week's most important news by and about women in politics, business, pop culture, and sports. Send me more resources, plus any articles, photos, or videos you think I need to see--or what mattress I should buy: remember--very very firm, no pillow-top) right here.
If you are not already, click here to become a subscriber.
Follow me:
Share the link to The Sunday Paper if you think someone you know would enjoy it.
[](http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=LZ+Sunday+Paper+Newsletter%3A+The+%22After+The+Fall%22+Edition: https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2Fthelzsundaypaper.com%2Fafterthefall)
[Tweet](http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=LZ+Sunday+Paper+Newsletter%3A+The+%22After+The+Fall%22+Edition: https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2Fthelzsundaypaper.com%2Fafterthefall)
L'Shanah Tovah,
LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court's Feminist Icon, Is Dead At 87 via The New York Times
Democrats Raise More Than $30 Million Dollars Following RBG's Death via NPR
How Kamala Harris Became The Converse Candidate via Elle
Why Are People Sending The Biden-Harris Campaign $19.08? via Roll Call
Just 11 Of The 196 Speakers At This Year's UN General Assembly Are Women via Ms.
How Women Want To Fix The Police Problem via Cosmopolitan
CRIME & PUNISHMENT:
Donald Trump Accused Of Sexual Assault By Former Model Amy Dorris via The Guardian
BUSINESS:
Diversity Push Barely Pushes Corporate Boards To 12.5%, Survey Finds via The New York Times
U.S. Venture Capital Investment In Female Founders Hits All Time High: 2.8% via TechCrunch
Male Partner Compensation Grew At Nearly Twice The Rate Of Female Partner Comp In Last 10 Years via Law.com/The American Lawyer
ARTS & POP CULTURE:
Evan Rachel Wood Uses Her Roles To Heal via The New York Times
Surviving Abuse Bonded Paris Hilton and These Four Women For Life via The Los Angeles Times
SPORTS:
Fed Cup To Be Renamed Billie Jean King Cup via BBC
British Woman Completes Record-Setting Solo Rowing Trip From San Francisco To Hawaii In 86 Days via SFist
THE QUEEN GIVETH AND THE QUEEN TAKETH AWAY…
Queen Elizabeth Strips Harvey Weinstein Of Honorary CBE Awarded In 2004 via People
MUST READS:
Buying Myself Back: When Does A Model Own Her Own Image? via The Cut
How My Mother and I Became Chinese Propaganda via The New Yorker
The LZ Sunday Paperâ„¢ launched at the dawn of 2014. We expose and recirculate interesting content that is about, and frequently by, women in business, with a dose of ultra-relevant culture. We think that culture comes high and low, not much in between. Our audience is vast and not gender-driven. Every week we expect to deliver at least one good laugh. Send suggestions, clips, or names of people you think might enjoy this to LZSundayPaper@gmail.com.
subscribe to this list update subscription preferences
This email was sent to [<>](mailto:<>)
why did I get this? unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences
The LZ Sunday Paper · 70 East Tenth Street · New York, NY 10003 · USA