Your mum sounds rad as hell. Please thank her for the work she and other women did to make things easier and fairer for my generation.
One Way Monkey
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In 1960, the year in which the first season of Mad Men takes place, my mother was living a few subway stops uptown…
Growing up in the 70’s was weird and wonderful and so full of overt racism (in my personal experience). I lived in a suburb of Boston and went through the busing crisis that occurred there from 1976-1977. That’s were inner city kids were bussed to the burbs and burbs kids were sent downtown. You can imagine the fights…
I like her. All that “She tries too hard” thing is bullshit. People respect Christian Bale and Daniel Day Lewis for trying too hard, but when a woman does it, we are supposed to hate her, because she has to be falsely modest? Fuck that noise.
Margaret Atwood tweeted at me once and I about shat myself.*
* By “shat,” I mean that I told everyone about it. “Who is Margaret Atwood?” asked my brother. “What is Twitter?” asked my dad. “Who are you?” asked the cheesemonger at Whole Foods who was showing me where the gouda was.
