Links From Our Group Chat: Wonder Woman Moves & The Best Places to Work
Go for it. Put your nose in a book.
Weekends are for wine down Fridays and read up Sundays.
Which is exactly what we're doing today, in addition to sharing what we dug into last week. Read anything that inspired you? Share in the comment below.
This is what superhuman women do.
And then this. WONDERWOMAN POWER: Brett Ratner won’t be involved in WW2.
Our girls at DBA landed themselves on AdAge’s Best Places To Work. Find out who else made the cut.
Meet the Mom + Economist who fed 100,000+ kids (and counting)
Forbes revealed their 30 under 30 List. Which means it's a good time to dig back into this.
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#FollowFridays: The 8 Female Artists We're Obsessing Over
Much-needed weekend inspo.
Need new inspirational IG accounts to follow? Our #FollowFridays posts will have you showing mad love online when we round up our favs in art, business, wellness, philanthropy, tech, media + so much more. Check out who we're following below!
@monicaahan + @jackeyblue_
CLICK THEIR HANDLES. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS & SHOW THEM SOME LOVE.
Who are you following?
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Links From Our Group Chat: How to Stop Sexism Early & the Daily Hell of 2017
We promise, there is an escape.
What are you digging into this Sunday?
Got anything good to share with us? Add links in the comments below.
Leandra Medine's brave and different kind of pregnancy announcement.
Interesting theory on men not trusting women. And the kind of trouble it causes.
How to escape the daily hell that is 2017.
Is gendered medicine good medicine? And what does that mean?
How to raise a son who respects women.
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Links From Our Group Chat: Reese and the WSJ, Art Prints We Love & The Martha Stewart Empire
What up Sunday night. It's us.
Cozy up on your couch for some Sunday night inspo.
Did you know a woman invented forensics?
Martha Stewart. And her 30-year empire.
We love this. "Witherspoon starts and ends her days with her nose in a book, nonfiction in the morning (“something that gives me food for thought,” she says) and fiction in the evening (“escapism!”)." We also love this WSJ profile.
It's live! The Chasing Paper Print Shop, which is an art collection that coincides with Chasing Paper's core mission - design should be for everyone. We happen to agree. They launched Friday with 24 high-quality prints at 30% less then competitors in the space. The goal is to make thoughtful design easier for people to get into their homes. Plus, we've got a discount code for the C&C community. (The code is C&C for 10% off any print-- includes framing.)
Might Harvey Weinstein actually be arrested? Justice might prevail.
We choose you. Who is part of your 'chosen family?'
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5 Best Career Takeaways from the Joan Didion Doc
Goals. And goals. On goals.
Photograph by Julian Wasser / Netflix
If you tuned into the Netflix Doc, “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold,” there were some tearful moments, some revelations about her relationship to her dad and her husband John Gregory Dunne, but there are also some moments that we took as career inspo.
Here are our five faves.
1. Everyone takes their lumps in the beginning. But those who stick with it persevere.
After graduating from UC Berkeley, Didion traveled to New York to work for Vogue. As fellow editor, Phyllis Rifield, explains in the doc, “it would be exciting because it was the pre-eminent fashion magazine.”
“You didn’t have the luxury of writing and writing and writing,” Rifield shares, bringing up Didion’s editor.
“I remember she would have this big aquamarine ring,” Didion says in the documentary from old C-Span footage. “She’d violently be crossing things out, yelling ‘action verbs, action verbs.’ Everybody that lasted with her,” she continues, “basically learned to write.”
Didion lasted, but not without taking some serious editing.
2. You never know where your shot will come from.
‘Self-respect, its source, its power,’ is the title of Didion’s first published Vogue piece. It had been assigned to a freelance writer, Didion reveals. It never showed up, but the title had already been printed on the that month’s cover.
“No piece came in,” says Didion, “so I had to write it.”
“People with self-respect,” wrote Didion in the piece, “display what was once called character… Character, the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
“Character, the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
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She wrote the piece. Got her byline. And the Joan Didion voice officially hit the world.
3. You don’t have to be a breakout hit, but you do have to break out.
Even though Vogue was, as previously stated, the pre-eminent fashion magazine-- and still the spot that so many writers vie to work at, it wasn’t the end-all-be-all for Didion.
She’d work all day at Vogue, come home eat dinner, and work on her novel. “I’d pin up parts on the walls of my apartment. I think ten people read it. I think 11 copies of it were sold,” she laughs. The novel is called “Run River.”
It was not her best work, but it was her first.
4. Sometimes you have to give up the day job to become who you really are.
Despite a burgeoning career, Didion knew that it was time to get out of New York. “It’s easy to see the beginnings of things and harder to see the ends. I could remember now with a clarity that makes the back of my nerves constrict when New York began for me. But I cannot lay my finger on the moment it ended. All I know is that it was very bad when I was 28.”
It was not until she published “Slouching Toward Bethlehem,” in 1968 did she become a cultural phenom.
Nothing happens overnight. The recognition doesn’t happen at the beginning of your career. That’s why it’s called the beginning.
5. The middle part is always the hardest and when you need to dig in.
No matter what the job, there’s always a moment when you have to go straight through the center.
There’s no other way around it.
In the doc, Didion talks about how the beginning of a book is the easiest, but once you dig into the middle that’s where the real work begins— for everyone.
What was your favorite part? Comment below!
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Links From Our Group Chat: Birth Control Time Warps, Joan Didion, Motherhood Myths & More WTFs
Group reading is group therapy.
Who watched the Joan Didion doc on Netflix this weekend?
Did they call it birth control, because they want control of our bodies. CAUSE. What in the actual? It's the freaking Rocky Horror Birth Control Show. Where we're doing time warp again. And again. And again.
Why does it feel like motherhood is so easy to get wrong? Apparently it's called The Goddess Myth.
If you're on the hunt for a new creative manifesto, look no further.
We hope this isn't just to sell book copies. Don't mess with Joe.
Do you think there is a cost to speaking out?
Revisiting this SNL gem right in time for Halloween.
What are you reading this snoozy Sunday? Comment your links below.
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Links From Our Group Chat: All Hail Samantha Bee & the New Midlife Crisis
Boom goes the dynamite.
What did we talk about this week? A lot of stuff that drove us mad. But then we had a few laughs.
Sam Bee's Penis PSA. It's not that hard guys. (pun intended.)
Let's just acknowledge that burnout is real. For everyone.
Sometimes we link to our own work because it makes us laugh.
If you've never watched this clip from 2005, you MUST watch it now. It will make you feel better about Monday and imposter syndrome.
Why are we not surprised by Woody Allen? Ever.
But these are scary and startling stats about kids and smartphones.
What did you dig into this week? Share your links in the comments below.
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Links From Our Group Chat: Birth Control Rollbacks and Pumpkin Spice Disaster
This week had us like, ugh.
The past week has been rough. Filled with tears and unanswered questions. Anger and disbelief. Our nation experienced mass tragedy, for which we have no answers. The White House took a major swipe at birth control. And Hollywood d-bags got exposed for what the are: d-bags. Where's the good news? We're announcing our next city tomorrow, because we forge ahead. Stronger together.
Ah, the turning of the leaves. The churning of stomachs. At least, that's what this pumpkin spice disaster caused at a high school, where two kids ended up in the hospital thanks to some pumpkin spice scent. Anyone wanna grab a Starbucks?
Unlike those Walmart whistling smiley face rollbacks, this Roll Back is NOTHING is smile about.
McDonalds is breaking into uncharted vegan territory.
Say hey to these senators offering their "thoughts and prayers," and then call them.
Gloria Allred does not approve of her daughter representing this creep.
Want did you read up on this week? Anyone want to share some good news in the comments?
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Links From Our Group Chat: Sofia Vergara Is Making Bank & A Brand New CoverGirl
You better work.
Tomorrow is... dun. dun. dun... October. We're not sure how we got here. It feels like just yesterday we were heading to SXSW to host our first conference of the year-- and now, well. It's almost the end of 2017. That's crazy.
What's also crazy you ask? The news! It's a wild ride out there. This is what we passed back and forth this week in our office.
How did we never realized what a freakin' hustler Sofia Vergara is? Stack that paper.
Did you know that Sally Hansen was a real person. We didn't either.
Unrelated: a record number of Americans contracted STDs in 2016. Practice safe sex.
CoverGirl debuted its newest ambassador: Maye Musk, 69, who has been modeling for five decades. She is also a dietitian and nutritionist with two master’s degrees.
You can't be a boss if you don't understand yourself first.
Also, can we link to our own content? Cause there's another Sophia we couldn't stop talking about this week..
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Links From Our Group Chat: Invisible Panty Lines & Sexism at Work
These things are unrelated. We promise.
It's Labor Day weekend (woohoo) which means plenty of time to catch up on good reads you've been putting off.
Grab a cocktail (or a coffee), sit outside, and enjoy the wise words from strangers on the internet. It's the American way.
Women are underrepresented in economic departments (not surprising) and this is how their colleagues talk about them.
Speaking of sexism, Ellen Pao wrote a must-read about the trial she lost and sexism in Silicon Valley.
If you hate thongs, here's how to "hide" panty lines. Sorry Cisco.
This UK retailer removed gender labels from these kids' clothes. No gender assumptions here.
All of the movies coming out this fall, discussed here. What will you be watching?
The road to recovery in Houston begins.
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Links From Our Group Chat: Quest for World Domination TSwfit vs. Amazon
The world is prickly AF lately.
If you read it, but don't send it to a co-worker, did it happen?
This is what we dug into at the office last week.
One of our favorites and sweetest bloggers around has a new clothing line perfect for petite girls. Find out who.
Tswift isn’t the only one making a come back.
But did you know you wanted 45 thinking pieces on Taylor Swift and her reputation? The NY Times took this all a little too seriously.
Why the person firing you is prob having a terrible time too.
Put my thing down flip it and reverse it. We see you Kendrick.
It's Amazon's world now. The rest of us are just living in it.
On a serious note-- our thoughts go out to everyone in Texas to keep safe and dry.
What are you reading this weekend? Share in the comments.
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Our Six Dream Podcasts & Their Hosts
Can someone make these?
It's been a hell of a Monday. We mean, the sun straight disappeared and people got emotional. So we dreamed up a few things that we want to listen to this week.
Can someone make these, thanks.
1. Sit Down Tony Robbins: Women explain that willpower is a privilege and it’s time for TR to sit TF down.
Ideal hosts: Issa Rae & Yvonne Orji
2. Momsplaining: Where moms explain new tech to people. Mom does it anyway, might as well put her on the podcast.
Hosts: Your mom, sometimes your dad, additional commentary from Amy Poehler
3. Blue Crush hosted by Blue Ivy.
No explanation need. Maybe she just dances.
4. Secret Service Secrets: Where secret service staff reveal everything you've ever wanted to know. They've got the best hiding spots, they know where the Pres is at all times, and they have secret offices where there are no trash cans outside. So many questions. Sidebar: where are all the female Secret Service agents?
Ideal host: Marjorie Palmiotti from Veep.
5. 2 Dope Queens
Oh, wait. That already exists.
6. Leave It to Beavers: Women take care of everything. All the time. This is where we talk about it and take over men's jobs.
Ideal hosts: All women. Any women.
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Links From our Group Chat: TSwift, Single Ladies & Nuclear War
Squad reads.
We had a good run. See you in single hell. (WTF!)
So basically, should we all get T-Swift tattoos? (#assinthebackofmybody.)
The Paul Smith pink wall is good for IG, but is it good for sales? Survey says nah.
Smartphones may have connected them, but they're also destroying an entire generation.
Speaking of destruction. How to build a bomb shelter 101. (Don't trip yet.)
Can't stop, won't stop Channing Tatum from dancing. In gas stations.
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Women Apologize for Their Answers More, But They Also Do This
And it's time to nix it.
photo by Brittni Mehlhoff
Though Siri will tell you that she's genderless, there is a distinctly female quality to her voice (at least in her US version). There's a business reason for that: people tend to react more positively to female voices. And yet, women are less likely to speak up in meetings than men. Why would this be? In his book Wired for Speech, Stanford communications professor Clifford Nass wrote that people prefer for our technology to help us, but we want to still be its boss. In other words: even in tech, the female voice is interpreted as more subversive.
In January 2015, Lean In founder Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton business school professor Adam Grant published an op-ed in the New York Times titled "Speaking While Female." The piece outlined multiple pieces of research showing that in the workplace, women speak less, are "manterrupted" more, and have their ideas more closely scrutinized.
Well, it's time for a change. It's time to speak up. Here are five ways to chime with confidence in your next meeting.
KNOW THAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE WORTH SHARING
We're not talking garden-variety comments that don't contribute to the task or meeting at-hand, but it is important to speak up at least once in a meeting. Otherwise your colleagues and higher-ups will start to think you have nothing to add.
The biggest hurdle is speaking up for the first time, and if you're not quite ready, next time you’re in a meeting and you have an idea, write it down.
Go home and practice saying that idea out loud in multiple different tones. Find the one that resonates with you, that feels like most authentic. Next time you’re in a meeting draw on that at-home experience and be heard!
ENUNCIATE
If you’re pitching a business or trying to sell your boss on an idea, you need to be articulate and concise.
Attention to the small details of your speech can actually give you with a sense of confidence that you didn’t know you had. Elocution may not be taught in school anymore, but vocal clarity brings vocal confidence. And nothing derails a confidence train like being asked to speak up or to stop mumbling mid-sentence.
"Vocal clarity brings vocal confidence."
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So, work on enunciation, clarifying all of your consonant sounds and varying your vowel length— these small changes can make a significant difference in how you’re heard.
SPEAK SLOWLY
There is a difference between being excited about what you’re sharing and rushing through your idea. When you speak too quickly what you are conveying is that you’re nervous or that what you have to say is not valuable.
If you’re speaking, hold the room’s attention, slowly and confidently. If you’re making them wonder whether you believe in what you’re saying, there is a good chance they aren’t going to believe in it either.
EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY
We’re reading less. There’s no way around it. However with dropping book sales comes a dropping vocab. One of the best ways to make sure that you’re ever-expanding your word base is by reading. This can be as simple as reading a page out loud every night when you get home. It can be any kind of written word, from fiction to newspaper. Not only will this exercise help you practice enunciation, but you’ll start to learn words without even trying.
The next time you speak up in a meeting, you’ll find there is much greater fluidity to your speech and you’ll be drawing on a bigger vocabulary base.
DON'T DISQUALIFY YOURSELF AT THE END OF YOUR STATEMENT
We hear a lot about women apologizing for their answers in advance and how we should nix this from our speech. What we hear less about, is discrediting yourself at the end of a statement or an idea.
This can be as simple as ending a presentation with one of the following colloquialisms: I guess, I don’t know, I think. Make sure that you are ending as strong as you start. Be certain beginning, middle, and end.
Sometimes when we get to the end of what we say, and it isn’t resonating quite right with a room, we get nervous and qualify it with a, "does that make sense?" Stick to your verbal guns, even if the room doesn’t agree. You can still sit back down with as much gusto with which you stood up.
Have tips for speaking up in meetings? Share in the comments below!
Arianna Schioldager is Editor-in-Chief at Create & Cultivate. You can follow her @ariannawrotethis.
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Links We Love: Solange, Ivanka & a Black Lady Liberty
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
As a country we are in the midst of a transition. For some, it's welcome. For others it means a March on Washington. A big one on the 21st. But that's not the only headline. Here are a few more that caught our eye.
President Obama's farewell sendoff to VP Biden is better and more tearful than anyone could have imagined. Including Biden who was surprised when Obama awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction -- an honor awarded to only three previous recipients.
Along the same lines of brother and sisterhood, the Bush sisters wrote the Obama sisters an awesome letter.
Planning on attending the Women's March in Washington on the 21st? These are all the things you need to bring with you.
Related: anti-Trump but refusing to march? You won't be needing any of the above.
Solange tells Beyoncé which Selena song is her favorite.
Designers reflect on dressing an immeasurable Michelle Obama for the last eight years.
An interesting take on Ivanka Trump's brand of feminism.
Dismantling the Affordable Care Act will have a massive impact on women and LGBTQ people. Here's how.
All call for media created by Latinx. Do you know what that means?
The United States Mint just released its newest commemorative coin and they put a black Lady Liberty on its face for the first time ever.
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Links We Love: The 30 Under 30 You Don't Know About & Saying Goodbye to an Icon
Say hi to your resolutions from us. *Mark Wahlberg voice*
You did it! You survived your first post-holiday week back in the office. We're so proud. 2017 is proud. Now read these links and make your mom proud too.
Subversive message from the patriarchy or honest mistake? You decide.
Links we don't love, don't love at all. After a closed-door meeting with Mike Pence, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced plans to defund Planned Parenthood, yanking about $400 million in Medicaid.
If you're feeling bad about not making Forbes' annual 30 Under 30 list, don't despair. The New Yorker has a list of 30 of the most disappointing under 30.
Are you wondering what will happen if Obamacare is repealed? Will you still have health insurance?
It's not just health on the line. Jobs would be affected as well. Repealing the Affordable Care Act could lead to a loss of almost 3 million jobs and cause serious economic stress on individual states.
Michelle Obama gives her final address to the nation as First Lady. Anybody have a box of Kleenex?
Tilikum, the SeaWorld Ocra that gained attention from the Blackfish documentary, has passed away. Seriously, where is the Kleenex?
This interview gives us 9,00,001 more reasons to love January Jones and her approach to single parenting.
And with that, we give you the giant Prozac pill that is Carrie Fisher's urn. Goodbye you badass space warrior. We love you.
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10 Defining Moments for Women in 2016
Shed a tear for our favorite First Lady ever.
2016 was full of ups and downs, peaks and valleys, but no matter where you're standing now, it was a monumental year for women. We are counting down ten of our favorite defining moments.
FEMALE-LED POLITICAL TEAMS & KATY TUR
Reporter Katy Tur lived out of suitcases for over a year and a half. Received endless threats (to the point where she needed Secret Service protection), and bullying at Trump rallies, but the reporter never stopped doing her job. Of the campaign trail she wrote, "For one thing, the boys on the bus are now the girls on the plane. Fellow NBC reporters Andrea Mitchell, Kasie Hunt, Hallie Jackson, Kristen Welker, and I are the first women-led politics team in the history of network news—just one remarkable shift in a campaign season where the only rule seems to be that there are no rules."
SIMONE BILES MAKES HISTORY
The reigning floor champion in gymnastics, American gymnast Simone Biles became the first female gymnast of this generation to take home four Olympic gold medals. At 19 she is considered the greatest gymnast in the world.
She's also a powerful advocate for radical self-acceptance. Biles who was just named the AP female athlete of the year has taken so much criticism about her body that she felt the need to address the bullying on Twitter recently: "you all can judge my body all you want, but at the end of the day it's MY body," she wrote. "I love it & I'm comfortable in my skin."
Call it a gold medal mic drop.
SAMANTHA BEE CHANGES THE LATE NIGHT GAME
With one of the best and most diverse writing staffs and its boss front woman, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee easily became one of the best shows in 2016. Bee might not have changed the outcome of the election, nor should a late-night comedy show have the ability to, but her satirical overtones are the best in the game. And she does it standing up, as if to remind people that she wears the pants. Beyond that, her writer's room diversity efforts have paid off and she's leading the charge, challenging other shows to do the same.
HRC
She won the popular vote, didn't win the race, but Hillary Rodham Clinton made history. For women everyone. For little girls who saw a woman command the national stage. For women who never thought they would cast their vote for a female nominee. At the DNC Clinton accepted her nomination saying, “When there are no ceilings, the sky's the limit. So let's keep going, until every one of the 161 million women and girls across America has the opportunity she deserves. Because even more important than the history we make tonight is the history we will write together in the years ahead.”
SARAH MCBRIDE MAKES STRIDES FOR THE TRANS COMMUNITY
Sarah McBride became the first transgender speaker at a major political convention when she spoke during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. She's interned at the White House, helped her home state of Delaware pass protections for the LGBTQ community and is now the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign. Though she one worried that her dreams and her identity were incompatible, she has become a brilliant example of the power of inclusively. "Will we be a nation where everyone has the freedom to live openly and equally?" she asked the convention. "A nation that's stronger together?" Will will if she has anything to do with it.
THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES: SENATE SILVING LININGS
We may not have realized our first female president, but there are now a record number of women in the Senate. On Tuesday, three women of color were newly elected to the Senate, quadrupling the number of sitting members. Prior to Tuesday's election, Hawaii's Sen. Mazie Hirono was the only woman of color in the Senate. She became the first and only Asian-American woman elected to the Senate in 2006, along with the first woman elected senator in Hawaii. Amongst the newly elected members of the Senate is California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who is both African- and Indian-American. Catherine Cortez Masto, the first Latina senator in U.S. history and the first woman elected senator in Nevada. Tammy Duckworth became the first Thai-American senator in history after she beat out her Republican opponent for an empty seat in Illinois.
COMPANIES ARE MAKING MAKING MATERNITY LEAVE STRIDES
This past April Etsy employees became eligible for 26 weeks of fully paid leave over the first two years after a child's birth, with at least eight of those weeks taken continuously during the first six months following the birth.
American Express will offer twenty weeks of paid leave will be offered to men and women bringing a new child into their families through surrogacy, adoption, or birth, with an additional six to eight weeks for birth mothers.
Coca-Cola, EY, IKEA, and Basf are all expanding benefits as well. Though policies in the U.S. regarding paid parental leave are up in the air, the steps taken by these companies are important for the county overall. There is still a long way to go, but when big companies set the standard, others follow suit.
TAKING OUR ACHIEVEMENTS TO THE BANK
In America we believe in money, and in a move that’s long overdue, women will gain representation on U.S. paper currency for the first time in over a century. In August, the U.S. Treasury announced that women suffragists will appear on the back of the $5 and $10 bill, and Underground Railroad abolitionist and escaped slave Harriet Tubmanwill become the new face of the $20 bill.
BEYONCE GOT EVERYONE IN FORMATION
With her all female, all women of color drum line Queen B performed "Formation" at the Super Bowl to the tune of unapologetic black feminist overtones. She paid homage to the Black Lives Matter movement, Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers. A few months later, she dropped "Lemonade," a revolutionary visual album that Rolling Stone named the best album of the year.
MICHELLE OBAMA DELIVERS ONE OF THE BEST SPEECHES OF THE CENTURY
She may have been on the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton, but when First Lady Michelle Obama took the microphone in Manchester, New Hampshire, she delivered one of the best political speeches many of us hear in our lifetime. She was raw, emotional, and brutally honest about the sexually abusive comments made by now President elect Trump. It was a rebuke that will reverberate for years to come. "It has shaken me to my core," she told the crowd. "If all of this is painful to us as grown women, what do you think this is doing to our children?" she asked. "What message are our little girls hearing about who they should look like, how they should act? What lessons are they learning about their value as professionals, as human beings, about their dreams and aspirations? And how is this affecting men and boys in this country? Because I can tell you that the men in my life do not talk about women like this."
Move over Jackie, we can expect alllll of the Michelle Obama biopics.
Have more favorites? There are plenty more to choose from. Share in the comments below!
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Links We Love: The Business of Wedding Hashtags & Tinder's New Dating Podcast
Plus one model taking on diversity in fashion.
Raffael Dickreuter via secretofdd.com
The RHOBH are back! If you don't know what that stands for, good on you. Keep fighting the good fight against reality. And take a look into this week's news cycle.
Black Mirror isn't just a show anymore. See how one model (Deddeh Howard, above) turned it into a photo project to talk about diversity.
Guess which ladies are leading the Grammy noms! Queen A and Queen B.
"My bill will ensure that students who try to transfer schools to avoid the consequences of their violent acts will, at a minimum, face the same consequences as students who transfer because they've cheated on an exam." Yep.
If you want to be ITK on tech, here are 11 stats from last week that will make you sound smarter than a 5th grader. (Maybe. They are teaching them how to code now.)
Tinder launched a podcast about dating in the digital age: DTR. And if you don't know what that stands for: hi mom!
Glassdoor released their 2017 BEST places to work! If you're on the hunt for a new J-O-B, check it out.
People do read! If you're looking for someone on you holiday list, here are 15 of the most giftable books.
Fathers, be good to your daughters. Like these dads.
If you're worried all of the clever wedding hashtags will be used up by the time someone pops the Q. Don't fret. Listen to the DTR podcast and then hire someone to do it for you.
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Links We Love: Tackling the Mental Health Convo & 11 Stars Using Their Voices for Good
Too stuffed to move? All you gotta do is click.
photo credit: Studio DIY
This week: Obama pardoned his last turkey and you ate your fill of yours. Oh and two ladies you should totally know about won Medals of Freedom, the highest honor awarded to civilians. Play catch-up on the week's news below!
From ashes to hope: one Palestinian girl's amazing invention.
These women in Hollywood are using their platform for good. 11 stars who became political activists.
Hannah Hart's book Buffering addresses the mental health convo. And the stigmas she wants to change.
What have HRC supporters learned from her loss? A portrait series is asking: Where Do We Go From Here?
What came first the self or the seflie? And is social media disconnecting us from the BIG picture?
The White House honored these two women in tech with Medals of Freedom. They were instrumental in the early days of computers.
Making both our bodies and our hearts warm this holiday season-- your feel good news of the week.
Chicago indie band OK GO is known for pushing the envelope with their music videos. What did they do this time? And what does Morton salt have to do with it?
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Links We Love: Million Women Gonna March but Kanye Didn't Vote & There are Now Muffins for Your Stress
Muffin over mind? Count us in.
Is it here yet? The weekend? Almost kids. This week has been a doozy and if you've gotten a little snoozy on keeping up with the media chatter, we gotcha. One link we love at a time.