Paper time

Surprise me View in browser February 08, 2019 Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, "Silence and Repose"    This week Call Your Girlfriend is all about books this week! We talked to Esmé Weijun Wang and Nikki Darling, and discussed all the great things we've been reading lately. We're also conducting a listener survey right now, so if you listen to CYG, I'd love it if you took 5 minutes to complete it. One thing that's already apparent from the results is that our listeners LOVE books and want us to talk about them all the time. This tracks with a general trend: Book sales have risen every year since 2013. As someone who's hard at work on a book, this is heartening. But even if I weren't literally invested in the success of this format, I'd be encouraged. I take it as a sign that people still want to immerse themselves in stories and information—and that the attention-vampire we call the Internet hasn't co-opted our capacity for absorbing words. Our unstated collective goal: Less screen time, more paper time. I'm reading Lizzo's joyful liberation. On the roots and meaning of "woke." Why blackface is the tip of the iceberg, and how Virginia's racist past is present. 21 Savage and the false promise of black citizenship. Immigrants are being scared away from the health care they need. How the internet became an easy way to exploit black creators. The woman whose image was used to create the first JPEG—a way more interesting story than it seems at first blush. You don't know Lorena Bobbitt's real story. What it really looks like to come full circle. The half-life of ambition, and the half-life of friendships on Facebook. Julia Cameron, who created The Artist's Way, has had a wild life—but probably not as wild as this tale of a scammer novelist. An open letter from later abortion patients, who write, "We’ll tell you our stories if you can muster the compassion necessary to hear them." Are private schools immoral? A far-right social media star was just elected president of El Salvador. "Throughout history, tales abounded of dolphins’ friendliness with humans—which, frankly, hasn’t gone well for the dolphins." I'm sorry to inform you that people are home-brewing vape juice.  Members only Become a paying member for just $5/year. I'd love your support. What are you missing? Click here to see what these pie charts are all about. Oh, and if you are a paying member but aren't seeing a pie chart here, we need to fix that! Email laura@ladyswagger.com for help. I'm looking & listening Keanu with his LA Public Library Card. Meet the Maasai Sisters, a collective in Kajiado, Kenya that helps survivors of FGM become leaders. Lauren Greenfield on how capitalism exploits insecurities. Scenes from the reality prep school that teaches children what life will really be like. GIFspiration Me congratulating myself for leaving my phone in the other room and really getting into a book. (Thx for this gif, CPR.) I endorse The polychaete worm, which lives near hydrothermal vents in the deep sea, and whose visage I am sending to everyone who texts me about the 2020 presidential race between now and October. (I'm NOT READY YET.) (via Deep Sea News, which is now one of my favorite websites.) You endorse Layla F. Saad's "Me & White Supremacy" workbook. "There's been an overdue conversation happening in the knitting community right now around diversity and inclusion and white privilege. Layla's work has been incredibly valuable because the workbook takes the emotional labor around this work and puts it back in the hands of white folks. She created the resource and makes it available for free (though you should pay her for putting it together)!" -Amanda B. What do you endorse? Submit a link here. IRL Feb 21, Kansas City: Photographer Lara Shipley and I will be at the KC Public Library discuss our multimedia project about migration in the rural Midwest. The Classifieds For too many of us, worrying or feeling guilty about our eating or weight is getting in the way of thriving in the world. Join this newsletter for ideas on how to break the cycle. Stop letting fear and confusion prevent you from making a difference! If you dream of starting (or growing) your business, join this free class: Your 6-Step Roadmap to Grow Your Online Business. Read better with Gentle Reader, the RSS and newsletter reading app. Read, bookmark and save articles from almost any publication to your phone or laptop Got a tough work issue? There's a nonprofit for that. Text 510-674-1414 to connect with a trained peer counselor. Confidential, immediate, and free. No joke! A classified ad is like a deep-sea hydrothermal vent that can feed your lil' business. Click for ad rates + info. Testimonials "Thank you, a million times over, for so artfully curating my waiting-at-the-dermatologist reading list." -Liz. You've just helped me understand this newsletter as a modern Reader's Digest and... WHOA. What a breakthrough. "My @annfriedman newsletter arrives on Saturday morning (I’m in Australia) and it’s just like reading the papers in bed on the weekend. It’s so good and less ink and mess." -Felicity Loughrey. THANK YOU, comparing anything to reading the papers in bed is a high, high compliment. This newsletter is turning off the internet and picking up a book. Forward it to someone who always has good reading recs. AF WEEKLY Subscribe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Manage paid membership MORE ANN Email me About me Writing archive Public speaking Rent my brain Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe | Ladyswagger, Inc. PO Box 26932 | Los Angeles, CA 90026 © 2019