Ms Informed Newsletter | Valentine's Day, Galentine's Day, and Marlene Dietrich's Love Life
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This Week's Show
Show Notes
Bitch Media Podcast on Gender and Valentine’s Day
The BBC on Giri Choco in Japan
Bitch Media on Galentine’s day
An opinion piece in The New York Times on the importance of Valentine’s day
History.com on the origins of Valentine’s day
The New York Times on the history of Valentine’s day
This week’s distraction
This week’s distraction is a bit like further reading on this week’s episode. Bitch Media released a great article about care economics. In this essay, Oliver Haug argues that during these hard times, more than ever, it’s important to uncouple care work from romantic love. He argues “how we ended up in a place where the expectation of consistent care is allocated only to certain kinds of relationships, generally ones that are romantic or comprising parents and children. People whose lives, by choice or circumstance, fall outside those parameters simply don’t enjoy the default expectation of care.” Read the full article here Also this amazing poem by the ever genius Alok about the importance of friendship love.
This week Madhvi has been listening to
This week Madhvi has finished listening to Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things. Strayed is most famous for her memoir Wild, but for years she was the agony aunt of The Rumpus’s Dear Sugar column. In Tiny Beautiful Things, she reads out these letters and her responses, and listening to her is almost like a religious experience. She is so in tune with human suffering, the complexities of life and love, and has such rich insight and experience, that listening to these candid, authentic stories makes you feel so connected to the rest of humanity and emotional. It’s enlightening.
This week Rina has been listening to
This week Rina has been listening to “The Other Latif.” This podcast follows the story of a man locked up in Guantanamo Bay for the last 18 years for a crime he claims he did not commit. Producer and Host Latif Nasser was shocked to learn that there is an inmate at Guantanamo Bay with the same exact name as him, as he has never come across anyone else with his name (for reasons he explains in the podcast). Follow along as he tries to piece together the story of the other Latif, without being able to do the most obvious thing, talk to the Latif himself. Listen here
This week’s inspiration
This week’s inspiration is Tamara Morales and her Berlin Boss Babes!
Berlin Boss Babes (BBB) was created as a spin-off from the massively popular International Women in Berlin.
Berlin Boss Babes (BBB) started out as a Facebook group in July 2020, growing to +2k members within a few months. The group quickly showed what Berlin-based female professionals were missing: a dedicated space that’s both an inclusive, authentic, and empowering online community, as well as an e-learning platform that offers local and women-focused resources and training.
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