What's got my attention this week
Things to read, watch & listen to this weekend
Well, here's a thing that would never have happened even five years ago. Little person, diversity advocate Sinead Burke on the cover of May 2023 Vogue
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• Sinead Burke on why nothing is more fashionable than inclusivity. (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)
• Talking of firsts, actress Rachel McAdams (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) did an interview and shoot with Bustle where she displayed the less than immaculate body of a fortysomething woman who's had two children, and underarm hair. Radical is relative!
• Female ambition (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) isn't a reason relationships end. Patriarchy is.
• What is a breakfast salad (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)? And should you care? (I'm sticking with toast.)
• Do you have positive affective presence (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)?
• IMHO Philippa Perry is the best agony aunt, bar none! Take her advice to this woman agonising over whether to put her abusive father in a home (Öffnet in neuem Fenster).
• Can bad people make good art? (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) (And if you're interested in this, look out for Claire Dederer's brilliant book, Monsters (Öffnet in neuem Fenster), on this subject, out next month
• The women changing the face of Brazil (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) – by ageing naturally.
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