Hump Day Quickie: For Katie & Barbie 💕
Plus #Barbenheimer Prep, the Crisis of Masculinity, Women's World Cup Hype, and Mommunes 👠🤷♂️⚽️🤰
Welcome to your mid-week quickie! This is your bonus, even-less-strings-attached newsletter to get you through the week.
What’s On My Mind…
An important read ahead of the Women’s World Cup. It takes a lot for an article to make me sob as much as this one did.
If you knew her, then I’ll never be able to do her justice. If you didn’t know her, then I’ll just have to try my best.
Men Are Lost 🤷♂️
A fantastic deep-dive into what it means to be masculine in 2023
I feel like there’s a lot of room to be proudly feminine, but there’s not, in my opinion, the same room to be proudly masculine.
A joyful profile of Greta Gerwig leading into #Barbenheimer weekend
Yes, Barbie is a polarizing toy and a juicy hunk of I.P., but Gerwig leaped right to what else Barbie is: a potent, complicated, contradictory symbol that stands near the center of a decades-long and still-running argument about how to be a woman.
One Liners
France already won the World Cup with this ad highlighting biases in the sport ⚽️
On that note, today is the last day to set your bracket 🏆
Why the world needs more ‘mommunes’🤰
A study found that encounters with birdsong can improve mental health 🕊
The WNBA scored its first textured hair partner 💇♀️ 🏀
Serotonin Boost
Meet Beenie Von Weenie, The Fastest Weenie in The West 🐾 🌭
Post of the Week
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