The “Beyond The Pale” Edition
Dear Readers,
I’m working on several things —
— a game show that is going to premiere on the Fox Network this summer. Do you want to be on it? You could have a lot of fun at this casting call, shouting out song names faster than Shazam, all the while imagining appearing with Jamie Foxx, who is hosting it.
— other tv shows which shall, right now, remain nameless, but one of them has to do with shelter and rescue dogs combined with my love of reality show competitions. If you would like to buy and broadcast this show, please get in touch with my spirit animal which is a girl pit bull, with a shiny grey coat, who has an enormous head and broad shoulders but whose own spirit animal is a little grey kitten who chases yarn balls all day.
— and another edition of this newsletter, as yet untitled, with additional focus on African American women in business and the culture. If you have an interest in this, either working on it or receiving it, or naming it, please email me here.
From the recommendation engine that just won’t quit chugging along, this week’s pick is the podcast Missing Richard Simmons. My friend Dan Taberski is a genius and made it. I find it sad and creepy and ultra-compelling. If you count that as a recommendation, you’ll love it!
Women’s History month also keeps chugging along. Plenty of fodder for this week’s paper, covering women in business, politics, media, the arts and pop culture.Send me stuff you think should go in a future edition here.
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Is it Spring yet? I posed the question last week, and I still don’t have a good answer. This week I’ll complete my third trip to the West Coast in three weeks, so at least I’ve been able to enjoy a couple of days a week of Spring-like weather, slapped back to reality by the East Coast’s icy, snowy, windy grip on March.
See you next week.
LZ
POLITICS:
Trump Sends Hate Group To Represent US at UN Women’s Rights Conference via Common Dreams
Ivanka Trump Merch Inventory Has Skyrocketed On This Resale Site via Pret-A-Reporter
Women Clergy: We Stand With Planned Parenthood via The Des Moines Register
Someone Asked 158 Members Of Ireland’s Parliament How They Feel About Beyoncé via Slate
BUSINESS, TECH, MEDIA:
Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful To Women? via The Atlantic
Investors Explain Why ‘Men Pitch Unicorns and Women Pitch Businesses’ via Fortune
Kimberly Bryant, Black Girls Code Founder, Opens Doors In Tech via The San Francisco Chronicle
How To Break Up The Silicon Valley Boys Club via Vanity Fair
The Funding Is Female: 18 Tech Founders and VC’s Changing The Tech Landscape via Pitchbook
The Gender Gap In Cyber Security Jobs Isn’t Getting Better via Slate
It’s Time To End The Pay Gap For Speakers At Tech Conferences via Forbes
Vibrator Maker Ordered To Pay Out C$4M For Covertly Tracking Users’ Sexual Activity via The Guardian
ARTS, FASHION, SPORTS, LIT & POP CULTURE:
Ryan Murphy’s Limited Depictions of Controversial White Women via BuzzFeed
A New York Philharmonic Coup: Deborah Borda Is Named The New Leader via The New York Times
Dior Is Selling A Cotton ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ T-Shirt. It’s $710. via Mic.
Another Woman At The March Madness Mike? That Only Took Two Decades via The New York Times
If He Can Play, Why Can’t She? The Occidental Weekly
Inside Saudi Arabia’s First Feminist Literary Magazine via The Establishment
AND WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT…WORKING FROM HOME:
The LZ Sunday Paper™ launched at the dawn of 2014. We expose and recirculate interesting content that is about, and frequently by, women in business, with a dose of ultra-relevant culture. We think that culture comes high and low, not much in between. Our audience is vast and not gender-driven. Every week we expect to deliver at least one good laugh. Send suggestions, clips, or names of people you think might enjoy this to LZSundayPaper@gmail.com.
