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(makinasu/flickr)Work it, Girl!
Linda Hirshman set off a new skirmish in the "Mommy Wars" with her December 2005 The American Prospect article calling for women to stay out of the house and find jobs if they want respect and equality. The article is now a book and an excerpt is available as a Brian Lehrer Show Reading Project. Plus, New York Times economic columnist Louis Uchitelle, the author of “What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage,” and the founder of a nonprofit that promotes African diaspora cinema.
Work It, Girl!
Linda Hirshman, retired as the Allen/Berenson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandeis University and author, Get to Work : A Manifesto for Women of the World (Viking, 2006)
- on her charge that “choice feminism” is no feminism at all
» Get to Work at Penguin
» Brian Lehrer Show Reading Project
That Class-y Blue Collar
Louis Uchitelle economic columnist for the New York Times and author, The Disposable American : Layoffs and Their Consequences (Knopf, 2006)
- on the bluring of the line between middle and working class
» Two Tiers, Slipping Into One (Times Select)
A Good Man Is Easy To Train
Amy Sutherland, author of "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage" in The New York Times 6/25/06 and author,
Kicked, Bitten and Scratched: Life and Lessons at the Premier School for Exotic Animal Trainers
(Viking, 2006)
-explains how learning to train camels and killer whales can help you get your spouse to behave
» "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage"
The Life and Times of. . .
Moikgantsi Kgama, founder of Imagenation, a Harlem-based nonprofit working with African diaspora cinema, and director of communications and development at Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement
- discusses her work in cinema in Harlem
» Imagenation Film Festival
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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