Hi, friends 👋🏻
I’m going to be totally honest… I totally forgot about this week’s newsletter until Tuesday at 8:30 PM. 🙊 In my defense, the past week has been a nutty sundae with extra nuts on top. I quit my job, 😅 started my own LLC consulting business, 👩🏻💼 and took my first actual vacation (and deep breath) in 8 months. 😎 Hug your federal worker friends because these last 8 months have been brutal on our mental health and physical wellbeing. Seriously, I’ve had TWO people in the last week point out to me how much more grey hair I’ve gotten… and I’m 34!
As a result… we are straying a bit from the usual content for this week. We will be back on track next week!
✨ Bits and Bobs ✨
💰 Surprise, surprise (said no feminist ever), abortion debt is UP after Dobbs. I want to scream that abortion debt is even a thing!!
👷♀️ Move over, Bob! There’s a new magazine called “Move Over Bob” targeting 12-22 year old girls and women interested in the trades. Currently, women only make up about 5% of the skilled trades. This magazine hopes to fix that by providing readers with stories of tradeswomen and information on career paths and resources. Sounds pretty neat to me!
🦉Who is she? In an effort to fight gender bias, Playeress has created a new version of “Guess Who?” featuring amazing women in history and today! Have they been reading my mind??
📚 The Bookshelf 📚
A new feature… let me know if you like it! Here are a few books authored by women coming out in September. I haven’t read any of these, but they are immediate TBR adds for me!
💄“Still Bobbi” by Bobbi Brown — Yes, makeup icon Bobbi Brown has written a memoir. Although it’s her tenth book, it’s her first memoir. She goes into detail about her childhood, raising three kids, and her businesses. It’s out September 23rd.
🧙🏻♀️ “How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy’s Guide to Silencing Women” by Zoe Venditozzi & Claire Mitchell — A book all about the original witch trials during the 1560’s including how they convinced an entire population that witches existed among them and had to be killed. Gives me the creeps just thinking about it, but it’s critical to know our history to prevent it from being repeated!
💼 “Having it All": What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours” by Dr. Corinne Low — For women in America today, the promise of “having it all” is an ever-elusive carrot. Faced with unsustainable demands in every sphere, we are certainly doing it all—but at a steep cost. Research shows that biologically, culturally, and economically, we are on uneven playing ground, and one that drains us of our happiness. But that same data can empower us to make choices that will reclaim our time, our energy―and even our joy. (Summary from Macmillan)
✨ “The Wilderness” by Angela Flournoy — Flournoy returns with a saga of Black millennial friendship over 20 years. She unspools the stories of five women living across the United States, charting careers, pregnancies, divorces and deaths against the backdrop of the country’s evolving political landscape. (Summary from NYT)
Alrighty, back to regular content next week!
Love the book recs - def going to listen to the Bobbi Brown memoir! And....love the bits and bobs approach this week...although in the true spirit of your newsletter - I recommend changing Bobs to Bobbie or Bobbi :)