Dear Readers,
Another weekend, another wedding. This one is a car trip, not a plane journey. That said, Friday work plus leaving plus evening event plus Saturday chock full leaves me with a write-the-top-note vs. curate-the-best-and-most-news choice. I choose news!
If I were going to tell you anything else, this week. It would be a) don’t renovate. Just move. b) If you fall for the “it’s just a paint job, really…” trick (not saying I fell hook, line, and sinker into this yearlong, bank-account-emptying abyss, but not saying I didn’t), look around and take note of a couple of things:
Black faucets are IN. What, you say? What even are black faucets? Just saying that these interior decorating trends are all fine, some last for decades, but if you are going to go trendy, and don’t mind seeing it in all your friends houses and maybe your dentist’s office, do it in your furniture, not your fixtures. If you change your mind, you don’t want to have to fix it with six sub-contractors, one of whom has to use a sledgehammer. You want to fix it with a “confirm purchase” click — and maybe custom fabric but again, that is a bit triggering for me right at this point.
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Next week will be another set of deadlines (and time zones), as I will be in Europe. Hopefully. And by “Europe” I mean “Ireland.” So likely it will not have been my last glass of Guinness consumed. Never the less, farewell, St. Patrick’s Day and Happy Purim**!
THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
In Ukraine, Life Goes on No Matter What via Marie Claire
POLITICS:
How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights via The New Yorker
There Was Boundless Energy For Women Candidates In 2018. Now, Just Apathy. via Jezebel
BUSINESS:
What Do You Think You Should Be Paid? via The New York Times
Why Black Women Struggle To Find Jobs Even As The Economy Rebounds via Andscape
#METOO:
Evan Rachel Wood Faced Her Fear via The Cut
The Case That Killed #MeToo In Sweden via The New York Times
HEALTH & WELLNESS:
A Case Of Zoom Dysmorphia via Culture Study
CAMPUS CLIMATE:
A Win For Academic Mothers via Inside Higher Ed
THE ARTS, FASHION & POP CULTURE:
Niecy Nash, wife Jessica Betts Are ‘Making History’ As First Queer Couple On Essence Cover via USA Today
Why Does Every Fictional Female Comedian Get The Exact Same Advice? via Slate
Sha’Carri Richardson Tackles Time In ‘Sub Eleven Seconds’ via The New Yorker
Why Are So Many Men Still Resistant To Reading Women? via Lit Hub Manipulation
Sapphic Style Is Going Mainstream via Harper’s Bazaar
SPORTS:
NCAA Deliberately Withheld Use Of Powerful ‘March Madness’ Brand From Women’s Basketball via The Wall Street Journal
WNBA Star Brittney Griner’s Detention In Russia Extended To May 19 via ESPN
OBITUARY:
Maureen Howard, 91, Novelist Who Traced Women’s Challenges, Dies via The New York Times
[(UKRANIAN) WOMEN’s] HISTORY MONTH:
Janet Sobel: The Woman Written Out Of History via The BBC
**AND WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT…?:
The Under-Celebrated Erotic Power Of…Hamantaschen via Lit Hub