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We don’t all have to make groundbreaking discoveries. Women don’t have to be ‘the best’. Women need to be everywhere, in every role, every workforce – and not at entry level, not at part-time and piecework level, but right in the centre of it all – and in management, taken seriously alongside their male colleagues, not worrying about what will I we
... See moreJeanette Winterson • 12 Bytes
If our situation seems uniquely challenging (and on bad days, borderline hopeless), it likely has to do with how much we have come to expect from our individual selves combined with the brokenness of structures—trade unions, close-knit neighborhoods, functioning local media, and so on—that once made it easier to do things together.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
While there are notable differences in the complexity, nuance, allusion, artistic innovation and experimentation found in mass, mid, and high culture, the argument that one is intrinsically more valuable than the others is, of course, fundamentally elitist. It’s no accident that this sort of cultural work—by Macdonald and others—is often the pet pr
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
He questions the blind growth mind-set because he doesn’t require it. If he were to double his profits, like his friend was trying to do, how much more work would be involved? How would that extra work affect his family or his life overall?
