Alright! Let’s get into it. Another week. More opportunities to push through, be good people, and take care of ourselves and each other! I needed to take last week to put 100% into work and a course I’m launching for local business women and the kick-off event is this evening. I’m looking forward to smiles and good energy but most importantly? Hope, progress, and love and light. I’m not sure of everything that the week has in store, but I hope it’s good.
Okay! Links!
Good reads
- Man, The Wing has just…not lived up to its promise. Or maybe it lived up to exactly its promise, for a certain group of people. This is so sad to read.
- These Women Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism.
- Manhattan Beach was once home to Black beachgoers, but the city ran them out. Now it faces a reckoning.
- TikTok and the evolution of digital blackface.
- “The Horror of Isolation: Three new movies show why this cinematic genre is best suited to the Covid-19 era, when isolation has become not just a way of life, but necessary to avoid deaths.”
- How a pandemic and climate change brought down the roman empire.
Good Listens
- How we learn languages.
- This is a good watch AND list: Simon Sinek on Understanding Empathy.
The Best of the Rest
- If you saw all of those black and white photos of women a few weeks ago (and if you participated), please be sure to get familiar with the origins of the trend and why it’s so important to engage with tough issues like this not just on social media but on a deep, critical level.
- Two teenages getting acquainted with Phil Collins is the joy you need in these trying times.
Happy Monday! Go kick butt!