Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump

In 2013, the same year that Harvard Business School alum Sheryl Sandberg published Lean In, which encouraged women to tell their employers exactly what they needed in the workplace, the sixty housekeepers of the HBS-owned Boston-Cambridge DoubleTree Suites presented their unionization petition to their manager.

 

Source: The Nation
Published: Mar 8, 2017
Length: 23 minutes (5,900 words)

Women in Power

Mary Beard’s epic essay on women in power “from Medusa to Merkel” takes aim at representations of power throughout history, and how the definitions of authority, expertise, and knowledge have long excluded women.

Author: Mary Beard
Published: Mar 16, 2017
Length: 19 minutes (4,900 words)

Chrissy Teigen Opens Up for the First Time About Her Postpartum Depression

A confessional personal essay by Chrissy Teigen. The model, television host, and cookbook author comes out about the postpartum depression she’s been living with since Luna, her daughter with husband John Legend, was born last year.

Source: Glamour
Published: Mar 6, 2017
Length: 11 minutes (2,847 words)

Sanctuary

After nearly thirty years building a life in Arizona, one man of Mexican descent takes refuge in a Phoenix church that’s part of the New Sanctuary Movement, which offers protection to undocumented migrants threatened by deportation. Quitting his job, not seeing his children, limited travel ─ this is what it looks like to live in fear of losing everything.

Published: Mar 6, 2017
Length: 22 minutes (5,632 words)

‘9 to 5’ Turns 35, and It’s Still Radical Today

An interview with Patricia Resnick, who wrote the original screenplay for the painfully-still-relevant 1980 office comedy featuring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin. It ran in December 2015 on the 35th anniversary of the film’s release. Still relevant and radical in 2017.

Source: Rolling Stone
Published: Dec 28, 2015
Length: 9 minutes (2,335 words)

Uncommon Ancestry

How fertility doctors impregnating their own clients is more common than you might think and on how the law around tracking sperm donors and donations is impotent against the problem.

Source: Hazlitt
Published: Mar 7, 2017
Length: 25 minutes (6,341 words)

The Cult of ‘Zelda: Majora’s Mask’

How the video game Zelda: Majora’s Mask — the “black sheep” member of the game franchise notable for its apocalyptic storyline as a stark departure from the beloved princess-saving series — became a cult object that spawned a fan-made, horror-based, sinister “creepypasta” storyline called Ben Drowned which has terrifying connections to the story of Katelyn Davis, the 12-year-old girl who committed suicide, live online in December, 2016.

Source: The Ringer
Published: Mar 3, 2017
Length: 15 minutes (3,961 words)

Saving Chickens, Saving Myself

On seeing and “being seen” — the silent gift of bearing witness to one another and individual suffering as a way of offering comfort and hope.

Source: Catapult
Published: Feb 28, 2017
Length: 7 minutes (1,971 words)

In Conversation: David Letterman

What has one of the architects of late night comedy being doing since he retired? Developing deep thoughts about using comedy to undermine the presidential administration, and confusing people with his long Santa Clause beard, among other things.

Source: www.vulture.com
Published: Mar 5, 2017
Length: 30 minutes (7,596 words)

The Fire on Harvard Avenue

How a flawed investigation and junk arson science convicted Angela Garcia of killing her two daughters.

Source: The Intercept
Published: Mar 5, 2017
Length: 53 minutes (13,360 words)