LZ Sunday Paper Newsletter: The "Trim For Growth" Edition
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Readers,
This week, I'm into cutting back the proverbial dead wood and letting things get ready to grow again.
Not only do I mean my outdoor garden, indoor potted plants, and my hair, but also the number of items in my list. Honestly, the sheer volume of important and interesting articles and stories has swelled my weekly missive from its original 10-15 to, some weeks, nearing 20 or even 25. I love a deep dive, but perhaps that is just a bit overwhelming. The whole point is to give readers a break from the onslaught through a thoughtful and severe editorial take. This week, I'm also getting back to a list weighted towards media & cultural roots. The past year or more's deluge of political and business stories have, instead of highlighting the ins and outs and ups and downs of women in business & culture, metastasized into a weekly tome of sexism, misogyny, rape, and sexual harassment.
I am allowing myself one extra pick: this simple and powerful "Raise Your Hand" Times Op-Ed piece, written by a 10-year old. I wrote my own "Raise Your Hand" piece in the form of a commencement speech a couple of years ago. It took me a mere 40 years longer to figure out what this kid already did. If "growing up fast" means being so much smarter, so much younger, I'm all for it.
In related "trimming back to re-ignite growth" news, I'm giving up that strategy and am saying goodbye to one of my favorite plants. It seems well past the time at which it would have benefitted. Like I learned in business, sometimes it's just a bit too late, you can't bring the dying entity back.
Do other people get attached to plants, and what they represent? This one was a New Year's gift, placed by management in our hotel room in Berlin last year. That hotel was adjacent to the Christmas market where the deadly terrorist attack occurred 4 days before we arrived. Not that the plant was related to any of that, but I somehow decided to schlep it back. And schlep it was, hastily wrapped, jostled in hand-luggage, shoved under the coach seat in front of me, traveling about 4000 miles home to a windowsill.
Believe it or not, we regard ourselves as a family of green thumbs, still harvesting late-season tomatoes and herbs, as well as keeping persnickety flowering plants alive for decades. But for this little guy…there is a season for everything…auf wiedersehen…
Enjoy this Top 10 (of sorts). It will keep you up to date, stimulated, smart-feeling, and even amused-- but not overwhelmed-- by the week's most interesting and important news about and by women in business, politics, and culture.
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LZ
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
How Prairie View A&M Lured A Former Ivy League President Out Of Retirement via The Texas Tribune
NEWS AND CULTURE:
Big GOP Donors Launch Group To Elect Republican Women via Politico
Mila Kunis Set Up Monthly Donation To Planned Parenthood In Mike Pence's Name via The Hill
What's Killing America's New Mothers? via Quartz
Millenial Women, More Than Older Women, Think Men Have It Easier via FiveThirtyEight
CAMPUS CLIMATE:
When Will The 'Harvey Effect' Reach Academia? via The Atlantic
ARTS, MEDIA, FASHION, SPORTS, & POP CULTURE:
Netflix Takes No Action Against Danny Masterson Despite Multiple Rape Accusations via The Huffington Post
'Good Girls Revolt' Star Shares Her Sexual Harassment Story; "I Can't Believe I Said Yes" via Refinery29
Christine Vachon Stays Thriving By Telling The Stories That Hollywood Won't via Slate
Hollywood Guilds' Role In Curbing Harassment May Be Limited via The Hollywood Reporter
How Predators Take Advantage Of Photo Ops To Assault Women via Slate
…AND WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT:
Margaret Atwood's Self-Portrait via Explore
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.
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