Thursday, with bonus Madeline Kahn

1. I have resorted to collegiate habits. I wrote out on a piece of paper a three-week calendar, from now until Wiscon, and filled in all the things I need to do between now and then. This always helps me, because I can see that the tasks are accomplishable — as long as I stay [...]

Thursday’s post needs a title

1. I finished Irrepressible yesterday. For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the biography of Jessica Mitford. Let me just say, it is decidedly odd to be reading a biography of a person who lived in history — you know, all those years before I was born — and then their bio starts [...]

Women agency playlist

I could, I suppose, cut this playlist down further. But I didn’t see a reason to do so. I mean, I started with over one hundred and fifty songs in contention. The playlist has some obvious lacks and faults. Not enough women of color. Not enough songs by women who are not from the U.S. [...]

Playlist of agency

So I was talking on Twitter yesterday about making a playlist of music featuring or about kick-ass women. I’ve figured out what I meant, more or less, and am working on refining the list even as I type this. Here, then, are my thoughts so far. What the heck do I mean by kick-ass women [...]

Girls to the Front

I got, started, and finished Sara Marcus’s Girls to the Front yesterday. Stayed up too late to do it. But … but I’ve never been standing that close to the history I read, before. Unless-and-until someone writes the history of my high school. Which is going to happen one of these days. I mean, I [...]