I’ve done the literary equivalent of sucking my thumb while listening to a lullaby of my own opinions – Pandora Sykes’ how do we know we’re doing it right? was an experience that had me nod, nod nod from the first essay to last. It was not in vain, though, as I got the validation the end that I am, in fact, doing everything absolutely right.
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Beautifully curated black and white photos of women were trending on Instagram the other day. What started in Turkey as women’s support campaign to show unity, respect and solidarity to 27-year old Pinar Gültekin, one of the latest victims of the country’s high-rate femicide, quickly evolved into celebrities captioning sexy black and white snaps* of themselves with the hashtag #challengeaccepted and “Good vibes only“.
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I felt I had the Obama-era cabinet members and advisers pretty well covered already – those who had served in the White House (such as Michelle Obama, Alyssa Mastromonaco and Beck Dorey-Stein) and those who should have served in the White House (Hillary Clinton), but I came across another book that I didn’t want to pass on: The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power.
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A few tried and tested beauty hacks and holiday reads.
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Life is not fair. Unless maybe if you’re the Satan who’s watching the world from the Satan-place (possibly together with Karma). I knew this, and was again reminded of the theory of it when I read Maria Konnikova’s brilliant The Biggest Bluff. Life is absolutely not fair, even if your crystal collection tells you otherwise.
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– Is that you, Karen? “Sounds like karenism to me, everybody let’s attack!” And so it goes, this summer’s special soundtrack of another way of effectively shaming women into silence.
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