Just Good Shit: 07.14.19
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Hi hi hi! Here’s what I had going on this week…
On the blog
Reading
After reading this article about Elin Hilderbrand and seeing this related tweet (which I now wholeheartedly co-sign), I decided to read Hilderbrand’s novel A Summer Affair, and ended up really enjoying it! I don’t tend to love/read fiction that much, but this shit…slaps? It’s exactly what I want to be reading while working on my own book (i.e., it doesn’t make me think about work at all, and is light without being truly mindless). I read most of it in the park yesterday and I felt so chill afterward — like it just lit up some pleasure spot in my brain. What a treat!
Also:
Ariana Grande on Grief and Growing Up, Vogue.
“For a long time I didn’t want to talk to anyone about anything, because I didn’t want to think about anything. I kind of just wanted to bury myself in work and not focus on the real stuff, because I couldn’t believe it was real.” Ariana Grande’s music isn’t my fave, but I like her as a person, and this profile is very good/sad.
How to Do Less and Achieve More, The New York Times.
USA's formidable women's soccer team is no accident. It's a product of public policy, The Guardian.
“In 1972, when title IX was passed, there were only 700 girls playing soccer at the high-school level in the whole United States. By 1991, the year of the first Women’s World Cup, there were 121,722 high school girl players – a 17,000% increase. That number has more than doubled since: in 2018, there were 390,482 high school girl soccer players.” SEVEN! HUNDRED!!!
It's Time For Women's Soccer To Break Away From FIFA, HuffPost.
Megan Rapinoe Is a New Kind of American Sports Icon, ELLE.
Everyone wants to Instagram the world’s most beautiful canyon. Should they?, Vox.
What It’s Like to Be a Disabled Parent in an Inaccessible World, Rewire.
Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory, LitHub.
“I understand how loneliness pools in someone deep as the sea, how you can hurt so much that you, too, wish to fade, like the turned pages of the waves.”
What It’s Like to Visit ‘Dr. M,’ New York’s Erotic Masseur for Women, The Cut.
How Wellness Influencers Made Indian Food a Trend, Healthyish.
The Best Way to Tour a City Is Through Its Grocery Store, NY Mag.
7 questions about hot girl summer you were too embarrassed to ask, Vox.
Have a great Sunday! ☀️
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