Do you find yourself wondering when we’re going to take to the streets and protest human-rights abuses at our southern border? You have a chance to walk the walk on Tuesday, July 2, during MoveOn’s National Day of Action to #CloseTheCamps. Stop wondering and start doing. You ARE the hero you’ve been waiting for! CLICK…
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#WCW: Tiffany Cabán, Megan Rapinoe, Alanis, and Warren
“Woman Crush Wednesday” — hashtagged as #WCW — is a Social Media Thing that gives peeps a good excuse to share lists of women they admire. Most of you probably know that, but it’s come to my attention that MrB, despite reading my blog since July 2007, still asks sincere questions my use of basic…
Don’t Wait: Activate! Also, Election Day Info for NYC
I spend a lot of time on Twitter — I’m a masochist, I guess — and I keep seeing people reacting to stories like this one about the warehousing of immigrant children in overcrowded and disease-ridden detention camps on our southern border. People tweet plaintively: Why aren’t we in the streets en masse? Why aren’t…
RIP, Gloria Vanderbilt
I wish I could find a shareable version of Richard Avedon’s starkly chic portrait of Gloria Vanderbilt wearing Mainbocher for Harper’s Bazaar. Fortunately, Gloria herself posted it on Instagram. CLICK HERE. Vanderbilt died Monday aged 95 from stomach cancer. She was born into fame thanks to her father, a wealthy and dissolute great-grandson of 19th-century…
Jewels of the Month: Time to Give Women a Hand
I’ve got a limited number of my sterling-silver emoji earrings left. Ten of those depict hand gestures; they’re sold as single studs that you can mix and match. Through Sunday, June 16, at 11:59 p.m. ET, I will donate $10 from each $35 purchase of a single stud to your choice of She Should Run…
Dracarys: We’re All Angry Queens Now
Can you feel it now? The anger? via GIPHY The gif above is from Mad Men and I’ve thought of it almost daily since that well-timed episode aired just over four years ago. The scene pops into my head whenever the most powerful people in the our country display their hatred, greed, and criminality —…
Notre Dame’s Bell Towers Survive
I was on the plane on the way back from Coachella today when I glimpsed a news report on the in-flight television about the tremendous fire that broke out on the roof of Notre Dame, the Gothic cathedral that is the literal center of Paris. I tried to convince myself that the scene wasn’t as…
New Zealand and the Week in Review
To donate to victims of the terrorist attack on two mosques in New Zealand, you can use a Visa or Mastercard to contribute to the official giving page created by the New Zealand Council of Victim Support Groups. Email helpdesk@givealittle.co.nz if you run into any technical problems due to being overseas. PBS NewsHour listed other…
RIP, Karl Lagerfeld
For years now, whenever I would read an interview with designer Karl Lagerfeld, I couldn’t help but imagine that after Andy Warhol died in 1987, Karl decreed, “Now I must be Warhol.” For instance, Karl’s response to a question about how he felt before a 2007 fashion show — “I have no human feelings” —…
We Won! New York Now Has Early Voting
Good news in politics needs to be celebrated, so cheers to the new legislators of New York State, who helped their veteran Democratic colleagues pass long-needed voting reform yesterday — their first day on the job! Leonardo Di Caprio Cheers GIF from Leonardodicaprio GIFs Everyone thinks of New York as liberal, but that’s the city,…