The "Soon" Edition
Dear Readers and Subscribers,
Thanks to so many of you for checking in on me and my L4-L5 discs! I’m doing better, my time almost fully consumed by a phalanx of treatments, doctors, scans, and so forth. And, like most things one dares to mention out loud, it turns out that seemingly “everybody” suffers from sciatica or knows someone very close to them who does or did.
In all these years with the LZSP I have found this to be true no matter what subject I raise. Of course that is, in fact, what #MeToo was based on. Just saying it out loud and a whole world woke up. Unfortunately maybe we were still half asleep, as it now seems that if you also ask “do you know someone who serially abused or raped dozens or hundreds of times but nobody said anything?” many people would raise their hands whether at Harrods’s, a “normal” French house, a big music label, in the military, the Catholic church or… I wonder where else…?
Along the lines of “if only one person says it out loud everyone would say ‘me too or someone I know’” — If there was a demonstration and the only way you were allowed to be part of the march would be to truthfully carry a sign that said “I had an abortion or I know someone who did,” I wonder what fraction, what small percentage of people would not qualify to carry that sign? Imagine every city across the country — or maybe just every city in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, organizing in the next 30 days to do that?
Speaking of which, get your voting plan together — where’s your poll? How are you getting there? What time of day are you voting? Do you need to vote in early voting, if your state has that? What if it rains? I truly wonder what the percentage of LZSP readers is who actually vote?
Back on the self-promotion train: for the next few weeks, at least, I will encourage you to vote for me and my book, Letters From The Corporation of Brown University. If you haven’t bought it, please do. If you have, leave a review. Both things help sell more books.
I am also voting for you to read my incredible list of articles about women in the world, — Politics, Business, Health, Pop Culture, The Arts, Sports, and more.
If you aren’t already a subscriber, you should be:
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Thank you and Happy October. Have a peaceful Rosh Hashanah, too.
LZ
The Pic(k) of the Week:
Dame Maggie Smith, Known For Her Wry, Witty, and Romantic Turns On Stage and Screen, Has Died at 89 via Vogue
Shakespeare to Harry Potter: 6 Of Dame Maggie Smith’s Greatest Roles via The BBC
POLITICS:
A Dramatic Rise In Pregnant Women Dying In Texas After Abortion Ban via NBC News
How The Last Eight Years Made Young Women More Liberal via The New York Times
BUSINESS:
Women Entrepreneurs Are Hitting A Funding Wall via The New York Times
CRIME & PUNISHMENT:
How Mohamed Al Fayed Kept Claims Of Sex Crimes Under Cover For Decades via The Guardian
These Two Rape Cases Are A Lot Closer To Home Than We Like To Admit via The New York Times
”Anonymous Curanderas” Are Helping Women In Their Community Address Trauma From Domestic Violence via The Undark
HEALTH & WELLNESS:
A Dramatic Rise In Pregnant Women Dying In Texas After Abortion Ban via NBC News
Despite Decades Of Promises, Health Research Still Overlooks Women via The Guardian
The Pursuit of Gender Justice via The New Yorker
THE ARTS, SPORTS & POP CULTURE:
The Biggest Joke In Ellen DeGeneres’s New Netflix Special via Vox
Real Aging Is Scarier Than Whatever Is Going On In ‘The Substance’ via The Cut
The Case For Lots Of Kids via The New Yorker
WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT…?:
Stephen Colbert Is Tickled By Trump’s Vow To Make Women Great Again via The New York Times