Birthdays, and Reading
Since the last time that I was in your inbox, I’ve had a lot of changes happening. I started a new job. I moved to a new apartment. I did new braids that I feel weren’t my best attempt, and my dad came to visit.
To say the changes have been interesting, but I feel like I can somewhat Harlem Shake into growth is a good feeling.
Today is also the birthday of one of my best friends, oldest friends, and travel buddies Mareesa (shout out to you), and here’s a cute picture of us to set your day off well:
In addition, while on my brief hiatus I did a lot of reading and cleaned out my Pocket, and here are some of the things that I consumed that I think you should as well.
I just finished reading Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner and it was such a beautiful and emotional read. A few times while I was reading, I find myself crying really hard to the point that my mom even asked why I was crying.
On Spotify, an Arranged Marriage Between Music and Podcasts, New York Times. Great read about how Spotify is allowing creators to use full songs in their podcasts. This article features one of my favorite podcasts, Danyel Smith’s “Black Girl Songbook” which I’ve mentioned here before. I believe whenever she brings in a song, it adds perfectly to drive in the points she is making. Highly suggest.
My guys: For the Culture: Bodega Boys Tour the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Love Desus and Mero so much.
Generation Wars Between Boomers, Millennials and Gen Z Are a Distraction. Teen Vogue.
“It can be incredibly challenging to get to a place where youth and adults are authentically sharing power, but I think once that place is reached, there’s already been so much mutual effort to understand interpersonal dynamics and their relationship to social inequities that organizing becomes all the more effective and intentional.”
Speaking of Teen Vogue, following the controversy with the previous editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond who resigned after old tweets surfaced, they hired a new EIC Versha Sharma, NYTimes
Ziwe’s IG Live was one of my favorite parts of quarantine and now she has a show on Showtime following the same format - random questions and gazing into the camera. Here she is with Eboni K Williams who is now on Real Housewives of New York which is my favorite housewives destination - happy for the melanin but still missing Dorinda.
Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up, The Atlantic
Everything Writes Itself: An Interview with Black Thought, The Paris Review
Maya Rudolph on Burnout, Beyonce and the Magic Link Between Music and Comedy, Variety
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