Why Not Kamala? 🧐
Why Not Kamala? 🧐
if Biden's such a flop, run the Veep. Right?
New year’s resolutions give me anxiety. Still nothing soothes like that fresh-start feeling. Beholding a blank calendar. Erasing the white board. Forgiving the past. So no, I don’t fuck with resolutions. But I am suspending disbelief in my own capacity for goal setting and embracing early January’s promise that This Time Can Be Different.
What about you?
On the pod
As much as it pains me to type this, there’s a presidential election looming in 2024. 🫠 So to start warming up our brains for what’s sure to be an historically chaotic runup, let’s begin with who’s not running and why.
In the Unladies’ Room
The latest Patreon bonus episode is a cozy, candid catchup and lookahead re: new year, old new me. Going into 2024, I knew I have to make some Unladylike changes (see also: this newsletter intro). In particular, I had to confront how much content I publish out of sheer inertia and a capitalistic fear of producing anything less than everything.
And so, I arrived at my very un-catchy motto for this year: Scale down to scale up flourish.
Also! I give my snap judgments of May-December and Saltburn🛁 and the 2023 Google Search Trends (#romanempire).
🎈THANK YOU, new Unladies’ Room members, Erin and Anna! Your $5/mo makes Unladylike possible. REALLY.🎈
FYI
🚑 ERs are obligated to save lives—unless it requires abortion. (Texas Tribune) Less than a month after Texas attorney general Ken Paxton effectively forced Kate Cox out of the state to access a medically necessary abortion, the (notoriously conservative) Fifth Circuit federal appeals court reiterated just how meaningless “medical exceptions” to abortion bans are.
⚖️ SCOTUS has greenlit Idaho’s abortion ban for the time being. (Mother Jones) Reporter Jackie Flynn Mogensen explains what this all means. I don’t know whether the Fifth Circuit decision above has any bearing on this Supreme Court case, but the Big Legal Abortion Question of 2024 appears to be: Do pregnant people have a right to life?
In the meantime, how about some GOOD pregnancy-related news?
🤢 The morning sickness hormone, maybe. (Science) A promising new study identified a strong link between the expletive-sounding hormone GDF15 and hyperemesis gravidarum, aka severe morning sickness.
🪩All that glitters is…microplastic. (
) Time to find new ways to sparkle, unladies. Genius beauty reporter and Substack fave breaks down horrendous environmental impacts and child labor involved in cosmetic glitter and rhinestones.🔌“[A] golden age of gadgets for girlies.” (The Atlantic) The “shrink it and pink it” problem with product design is far from solved, but as Amanda Mull reported last month, gadgets to solve young women’s “problems” (ie, beauty standards and domesticity) are booming. For more on that, I highly recommend
, which ranked $400-$600 Dyson hair tools as one of the Gen Z Gifts of 2023.
unladies are saying
I absolutely loved this episode!! It’s a great nuanced opinion on tabloids and that news sources can be right & wrong, and even get things right about women but in a way that’s still problematic
unlady B, re: The Daily Mail—FOR HER! 🗞️
til next week… roadtrip?
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