From Monday, July 30 Newsletter


From Monday, July 30 Newsletter


This is an excerpt of an NPR interview with Geena Davis interviewed by Jacki Lyden. LYDEN: Maybe you’ve noticed something missing at the movies – like women. I’d like to say hooray for Hollywood, but women make up a minority of movie creators: 7 percent of the directors, 13 percent of the writers, 20 percent […]
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about ourselves in 2017 it’s that we are resilient. I feel I can speak for all of us when I say that 2017 tested us, over and over again. But we’ve made it through and can breathe again. We can finally stop carrying the emotional baggage we’ve been dragging […]
Remember how torturous being grounded was? On one occasion I think I cried through both sides of my pillow because my awkward, bratty teenage self was that distraught over not being able to leave my bedroom… My crush was having a house party and my mum, the strong, couldn’t-give-two-shits woman that she is, had banned […]