Ms Informed Newsletter | DMX, Prince Philip, and why don't we speak ill of the dead?
Listen up for some real talk about dead people.
This Week's Show
Show Notes
Al Jazeera on Ghandi
The Washington Post on why we don’t speak ill of the dead
Al Jazeera on Prince Philip’s racism
The New York Times Overlooked Obituaries
The New York Times on why most obituaries are still about white men
The Huffington Post on Mother Teresa
This week’s distraction
This week’s distraction is the calls for protest in Russia. Allies of Alexei Navalny have called on his supporters to stage mass protests on Wednesday in towns and cities all across Russia, amid a dire warning that the jailed Kremlin critic and opposition leader is now dangerously ill and could die “at any minute”.
Navalny’s team said the situation had got so desperate that there was no time to delay. They had previously said street protests would resume once they reached 500,000 signatures in support – with the current tally about 50,000 short.
In a video posted on Navalny’s YouTube channel his deputies Leonid Volkovand Ivan Zhdanov said Navalny’s health had deteriorated so dramatically that a mass public display was the only way to save him. Volkov urged citizens to gather at 7 pm on Wednesday in squares across the country. Read more in the Guardian here
This week Madhvi has been watching
Seaspiracy on Netflix. Have you seen it? It’s an expose of the fishing industry which will probably guarantee you never eat sushi again. However, I am interested in looking deeper into the issues raised in the documentary. Maybe a topic for a future podcast episode?
This week Rina has been reading
This week Rina has started reading Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz. Madhvi lent me this book and as the weather continues to be terrible in Berlin, I am going to cuddle up in my bed and read.
This week’s inspiration
This week’s inspiration is Zoe Noble! Zoe Noble is an English beauty photographer based in Berlin. She works internationally for commercial and editorial clients like L'Oréal Paris, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar and as an educator for Adobe and Capture One. An advocate for women’s rights and female empowerment, she founded We are Childfree, a portrait and podcast series that lifts up the voices of women who have decided not to have children. She hopes to inspire all women to live their lives authentically. Visit her website here, find her on Instagram here, and visit Childfree here
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