27 Mar Life after “This American Life”
I rarely post my newsletters, but I just sent this one out, and figured was worth including here in the Archive of DZ's Relatively Important Moments. Sign up for newsletters here, btw.In case you missed it... three weeks ago, I was part of a This American Life episode called "Five Women." If you haven't listened to it, much of the rest of this won't make sense, but y'know, you do you. I've wanted to send out a newsletter about it pretty much since it came out-- even if I weren't part of this, I feel like "Five Women" is probably one of the most compelling and important pieces of journalism on #MeToo. It recognizes that sexual, gendered harassment and abuse are not about that one time that one guy said your shirt looked nice. It's about a lifetime of socialization that we take with us through every experience, the mental acrobatics we perform to get through things, to make them normal, to have our lives make sense.
