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Ann Friedman (especially for her piece, “Not Every Hobby Is a Side Hustle”),
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
Our identities are too often defined by our relationships to other people—wife, mother, daughter—and prominent politicians defend women’s rights by describing us relationally to men.
Jill Filipovic • The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
Tech company cafeterias remain economically viable as a recruitment strategy despite cost-cutting concerns in post-ZIRP era
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And that is not a reality-entangled point of view at all. The economics are just so absurdly attractive.
Every company has a number and few companies disclose it, but finger to the wind, it's probably like $15 per beneficiary per day of what it costs to provide those services.
And $15 next to the total compensation of an engineer, even at a place
... See moreI often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach—as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle. That means that feminism doesn’t belong to anyone in particular.
Angela Y. Davis • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
But......if we can get 2,000 subscribers or more.....dude. First of all, I’d uh stop panicking tonight , and then I’d get to work putting Hate Read... See more
well lol i finally got laid off...but on the bright side.......
The death of the public intellectual
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