Just Good Shit: 06.23.19
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Hi! This week, I was busy working on my manuscript and prepping for the Pride party my gf and I hosted last night. Here’s what else I had going on…
On the blog
Elsewhere
I’m writing a new column for SELF Magazine called A Little Better, and my first one went live this week: Not Great, Bob! The Case for Actually Being Honest When People Ask How You Are.
And I recently chatted with Brittany Luse of The Nod podcast; you can listen to the episode here: How to Show Up.
Reading
The Youngest Child Separated From His Family at the Border Was 4 Months Old, The New York Times.
Taylor Swift's 'You Need to Calm Down' Video Is Strangely Both Gay and Sexless, Esquire.
“The song and the video are a vague call for tolerance, conflating gayness with glitter and gowns, woven into a meditation on how Taylor Swift gets no respect, worded in such a way that if you—as the person whose culture is being co-opted for it—has a criticism, it is because you are being obsessive and hysterical. That’s quite a racket she’s got going there.”
No Shade, But There’s a Wrong Way to Make a Gay Anthem, Esquire.
Being Transgender at Goldman Sachs, The New York Times.
How I lost my legs and gained... you want me to say something inspiring here, The Outline.
Elin Hilderbrand Doesn’t Mind That You Call Her Books ‘Beach Reads’, The Cut.
The Case for Boring Office Clothes, The Atlantic.
Why so many beers have retro-looking cans, Vox.
I’m the boss who’s always late, Ask a Manager.
King Princess: Free to Be, them.
The Chicago Harp That Rules the World, Chicago Magazine.
The American Dreamsicle, Topic.
“In the mid-’20s, the Popsicle Corporation and Harry B. Burt, the inventor of the Good Humor bar, went to court over patents and eventually settled on an uneasy truce, wherein Good Humor bars would keep their square shape and ice-cream base, while Popsicles would have exclusive rights to the method that produced their more tubular form and would freeze only syrup, water, or sherbet on a stick.”
How “soccer girl” became the indisputably coolest look, Vox.
I loved this!
Watching
Rachel, the jaw-droppingly awkward 10-minute film (based on a true story!!!!!) from John Early and Kate Berlant which I want everyone to watch. (Once you watch, read this interview about it.) Also: Seth Meyers and Rihanna day drinking and Troop Beverly Hills (for the first time ever).
Have a great Sunday! 🍦
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