The feminist Steve Kornacki with my civic nerd hot take about last night’s election, at your service.
#Vote #AbortionRights #GinAndJuice
Excited to announce our upcoming guests for Further Ado, our video interview series at our newsletter, Listening in the Dark:
Janet Fitch: Acclaimed author of “White Oleander” and the novel I adapted into a feature film, “Paint It Black”
Priya Parker: Strategic advisor, master facilitator, and author of “The Art of Gathering”
Blake Lively: Actress, producer, and founder of Betty Buzz
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: Marine biologist, climate expert, and policy writer
Suleika Jaouad: Emmy-winning author, subject of the new Netflix documentary “American Symphony,” and founder of “The Isolation Journals”
Bonnie Tamblyn: Conflict resolution facilitator and most excellent mom
More to be announced in 2024!
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🤎Needed a badass female lead vocal to go with this badass outfit. So I picked my mom, obvi.🤎
🤎Needed a badass female lead vocal to go with this badass outfit. So I picked my mom, obvi.🤎
🤎Needed a badass female lead vocal to go with this badass outfit. So I picked my mom, obvi.🤎
🤎Needed a badass female lead vocal to go with this badass outfit. So I picked my mom, obvi.🤎
Thank you Vulture Festival, New York Magazine, and my curating-partner-in-crime Roxane Gay for having our literary series back, Feminist as F*ck featuring these incredible writers. It was a beautiful and powerful afternoon of readings that blew me away by Gabrielle Bellot, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, R.O. Kwon, Kirsten Vangsness (and some poems by me) and yes I did rock a corduroy suit in the key of cognac for the occasion because why wouldn’t I?
Suit: @argent
Hair: @hairbyaviva
Makeup: @nickbarose
Gold chain: @kentshire
Thank you Vulture Festival, New York Magazine, and my curating-partner-in-crime Roxane Gay for having our literary series back, Feminist as F*ck featuring these incredible writers. It was a beautiful and powerful afternoon of readings that blew me away by Gabrielle Bellot, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, R.O. Kwon, Kirsten Vangsness (and some poems by me) and yes I did rock a corduroy suit in the key of cognac for the occasion because why wouldn’t I?
Suit: @argent
Hair: @hairbyaviva
Makeup: @nickbarose
Gold chain: @kentshire
Thank you Vulture Festival, New York Magazine, and my curating-partner-in-crime Roxane Gay for having our literary series back, Feminist as F*ck featuring these incredible writers. It was a beautiful and powerful afternoon of readings that blew me away by Gabrielle Bellot, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, R.O. Kwon, Kirsten Vangsness (and some poems by me) and yes I did rock a corduroy suit in the key of cognac for the occasion because why wouldn’t I?
Suit: @argent
Hair: @hairbyaviva
Makeup: @nickbarose
Gold chain: @kentshire
Thank you Vulture Festival, New York Magazine, and my curating-partner-in-crime Roxane Gay for having our literary series back, Feminist as F*ck featuring these incredible writers. It was a beautiful and powerful afternoon of readings that blew me away by Gabrielle Bellot, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, R.O. Kwon, Kirsten Vangsness (and some poems by me) and yes I did rock a corduroy suit in the key of cognac for the occasion because why wouldn’t I?
Suit: @argent
Hair: @hairbyaviva
Makeup: @nickbarose
Gold chain: @kentshire
Thank you Vulture Festival, New York Magazine, and my curating-partner-in-crime Roxane Gay for having our literary series back, Feminist as F*ck featuring these incredible writers. It was a beautiful and powerful afternoon of readings that blew me away by Gabrielle Bellot, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, R.O. Kwon, Kirsten Vangsness (and some poems by me) and yes I did rock a corduroy suit in the key of cognac for the occasion because why wouldn’t I?
Suit: @argent
Hair: @hairbyaviva
Makeup: @nickbarose
Gold chain: @kentshire
Thank you Vulture Festival, New York Magazine, and my curating-partner-in-crime Roxane Gay for having our literary series back, Feminist as F*ck featuring these incredible writers. It was a beautiful and powerful afternoon of readings that blew me away by Gabrielle Bellot, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, R.O. Kwon, Kirsten Vangsness (and some poems by me) and yes I did rock a corduroy suit in the key of cognac for the occasion because why wouldn’t I?
Suit: @argent
Hair: @hairbyaviva
Makeup: @nickbarose
Gold chain: @kentshire
Thank you Vulture Festival, New York Magazine, and my curating-partner-in-crime Roxane Gay for having our literary series back, Feminist as F*ck featuring these incredible writers. It was a beautiful and powerful afternoon of readings that blew me away by Gabrielle Bellot, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, R.O. Kwon, Kirsten Vangsness (and some poems by me) and yes I did rock a corduroy suit in the key of cognac for the occasion because why wouldn’t I?
Suit: @argent
Hair: @hairbyaviva
Makeup: @nickbarose
Gold chain: @kentshire
Absolutely no business whatsoever wearing this sheer tulle dress and thin polkadot tights in freezing cold December weather in the U.K. but the occasion demanded it. Thank you to my friends @clelia_mountford and @sharonhorgan for hosting a celebration at your Merman offices in London for our book, Listening in the Dark. It only took me a year to get over here but it was worth it. I met the most incredible women artists, thinkers, and storytellers in the room, read a chapter or two, and led everyone in an excersize from the closing chapter of the book aimed at strengthening our relationship to intuitive intelligence and listening to what our gut tells us. A powerful, intimate evening in which I had too much red wine, hugged everyone ferociously, and took a picture of this relatable mushroom hanging on their office wall.
I know you’re all going to ask so here’s the look run down: my favorite brand of shoes: @drmartensofficial , the dress by my favorite thrift store in New York @curethrift , lipstick is something like 4 different shades of god knows what was in my bag that I mindlessly applied throughout the night (I have roughly 2-6 lipsticks in my purse at all times.)
#ListeningInTheDark
#MermanProductions
Absolutely no business whatsoever wearing this sheer tulle dress and thin polkadot tights in freezing cold December weather in the U.K. but the occasion demanded it. Thank you to my friends @clelia_mountford and @sharonhorgan for hosting a celebration at your Merman offices in London for our book, Listening in the Dark. It only took me a year to get over here but it was worth it. I met the most incredible women artists, thinkers, and storytellers in the room, read a chapter or two, and led everyone in an excersize from the closing chapter of the book aimed at strengthening our relationship to intuitive intelligence and listening to what our gut tells us. A powerful, intimate evening in which I had too much red wine, hugged everyone ferociously, and took a picture of this relatable mushroom hanging on their office wall.
I know you’re all going to ask so here’s the look run down: my favorite brand of shoes: @drmartensofficial , the dress by my favorite thrift store in New York @curethrift , lipstick is something like 4 different shades of god knows what was in my bag that I mindlessly applied throughout the night (I have roughly 2-6 lipsticks in my purse at all times.)
#ListeningInTheDark
#MermanProductions
Absolutely no business whatsoever wearing this sheer tulle dress and thin polkadot tights in freezing cold December weather in the U.K. but the occasion demanded it. Thank you to my friends @clelia_mountford and @sharonhorgan for hosting a celebration at your Merman offices in London for our book, Listening in the Dark. It only took me a year to get over here but it was worth it. I met the most incredible women artists, thinkers, and storytellers in the room, read a chapter or two, and led everyone in an excersize from the closing chapter of the book aimed at strengthening our relationship to intuitive intelligence and listening to what our gut tells us. A powerful, intimate evening in which I had too much red wine, hugged everyone ferociously, and took a picture of this relatable mushroom hanging on their office wall.
I know you’re all going to ask so here’s the look run down: my favorite brand of shoes: @drmartensofficial , the dress by my favorite thrift store in New York @curethrift , lipstick is something like 4 different shades of god knows what was in my bag that I mindlessly applied throughout the night (I have roughly 2-6 lipsticks in my purse at all times.)
#ListeningInTheDark
#MermanProductions
Absolutely no business whatsoever wearing this sheer tulle dress and thin polkadot tights in freezing cold December weather in the U.K. but the occasion demanded it. Thank you to my friends @clelia_mountford and @sharonhorgan for hosting a celebration at your Merman offices in London for our book, Listening in the Dark. It only took me a year to get over here but it was worth it. I met the most incredible women artists, thinkers, and storytellers in the room, read a chapter or two, and led everyone in an excersize from the closing chapter of the book aimed at strengthening our relationship to intuitive intelligence and listening to what our gut tells us. A powerful, intimate evening in which I had too much red wine, hugged everyone ferociously, and took a picture of this relatable mushroom hanging on their office wall.
I know you’re all going to ask so here’s the look run down: my favorite brand of shoes: @drmartensofficial , the dress by my favorite thrift store in New York @curethrift , lipstick is something like 4 different shades of god knows what was in my bag that I mindlessly applied throughout the night (I have roughly 2-6 lipsticks in my purse at all times.)
#ListeningInTheDark
#MermanProductions
Absolutely no business whatsoever wearing this sheer tulle dress and thin polkadot tights in freezing cold December weather in the U.K. but the occasion demanded it. Thank you to my friends @clelia_mountford and @sharonhorgan for hosting a celebration at your Merman offices in London for our book, Listening in the Dark. It only took me a year to get over here but it was worth it. I met the most incredible women artists, thinkers, and storytellers in the room, read a chapter or two, and led everyone in an excersize from the closing chapter of the book aimed at strengthening our relationship to intuitive intelligence and listening to what our gut tells us. A powerful, intimate evening in which I had too much red wine, hugged everyone ferociously, and took a picture of this relatable mushroom hanging on their office wall.
I know you’re all going to ask so here’s the look run down: my favorite brand of shoes: @drmartensofficial , the dress by my favorite thrift store in New York @curethrift , lipstick is something like 4 different shades of god knows what was in my bag that I mindlessly applied throughout the night (I have roughly 2-6 lipsticks in my purse at all times.)
#ListeningInTheDark
#MermanProductions
Absolutely no business whatsoever wearing this sheer tulle dress and thin polkadot tights in freezing cold December weather in the U.K. but the occasion demanded it. Thank you to my friends @clelia_mountford and @sharonhorgan for hosting a celebration at your Merman offices in London for our book, Listening in the Dark. It only took me a year to get over here but it was worth it. I met the most incredible women artists, thinkers, and storytellers in the room, read a chapter or two, and led everyone in an excersize from the closing chapter of the book aimed at strengthening our relationship to intuitive intelligence and listening to what our gut tells us. A powerful, intimate evening in which I had too much red wine, hugged everyone ferociously, and took a picture of this relatable mushroom hanging on their office wall.
I know you’re all going to ask so here’s the look run down: my favorite brand of shoes: @drmartensofficial , the dress by my favorite thrift store in New York @curethrift , lipstick is something like 4 different shades of god knows what was in my bag that I mindlessly applied throughout the night (I have roughly 2-6 lipsticks in my purse at all times.)
#ListeningInTheDark
#MermanProductions
Absolutely no business whatsoever wearing this sheer tulle dress and thin polkadot tights in freezing cold December weather in the U.K. but the occasion demanded it. Thank you to my friends @clelia_mountford and @sharonhorgan for hosting a celebration at your Merman offices in London for our book, Listening in the Dark. It only took me a year to get over here but it was worth it. I met the most incredible women artists, thinkers, and storytellers in the room, read a chapter or two, and led everyone in an excersize from the closing chapter of the book aimed at strengthening our relationship to intuitive intelligence and listening to what our gut tells us. A powerful, intimate evening in which I had too much red wine, hugged everyone ferociously, and took a picture of this relatable mushroom hanging on their office wall.
I know you’re all going to ask so here’s the look run down: my favorite brand of shoes: @drmartensofficial , the dress by my favorite thrift store in New York @curethrift , lipstick is something like 4 different shades of god knows what was in my bag that I mindlessly applied throughout the night (I have roughly 2-6 lipsticks in my purse at all times.)
#ListeningInTheDark
#MermanProductions
Absolutely no business whatsoever wearing this sheer tulle dress and thin polkadot tights in freezing cold December weather in the U.K. but the occasion demanded it. Thank you to my friends @clelia_mountford and @sharonhorgan for hosting a celebration at your Merman offices in London for our book, Listening in the Dark. It only took me a year to get over here but it was worth it. I met the most incredible women artists, thinkers, and storytellers in the room, read a chapter or two, and led everyone in an excersize from the closing chapter of the book aimed at strengthening our relationship to intuitive intelligence and listening to what our gut tells us. A powerful, intimate evening in which I had too much red wine, hugged everyone ferociously, and took a picture of this relatable mushroom hanging on their office wall.
I know you’re all going to ask so here’s the look run down: my favorite brand of shoes: @drmartensofficial , the dress by my favorite thrift store in New York @curethrift , lipstick is something like 4 different shades of god knows what was in my bag that I mindlessly applied throughout the night (I have roughly 2-6 lipsticks in my purse at all times.)
#ListeningInTheDark
#MermanProductions
Godspeed, Norman. Beyond all that you did to transform television, you did so much more for humanity. A champion of artists, of actors; a nourisher to poets and the spoken word; a co-conspirator who called young folks in to get civically engaged; you uplifted the voices, the stories, the space for women to exist in positions of power. I have a long ago memory of us standing together in the long hallway of your home after a gathering. “There’s so much we can’t control in this world, in our lives,”you said. “Showing up is not one of them.”
I have tried to show up ever since, in every way I can. For myself, for others. Thank you for showing us the way. Rest well now.
Remember to breathe.
For our newsletter, Listening in the Dark, I wrote about the vital importance of mindful breathing through difficult times, the science behind trauma responses, fight-or-flight mode, and how to take care of our physical and mental health in whatever small yet meaningful ways we can. Link in my bio.
Join us next Saturday, November 11 for Feminist as F*ck at @VultureFestival in Los Angeles, featuring some of today’s most exciting voices across genres: Nafissa Thompson-Spires, R.O. Kwon, Kirsten Vangsness, and Gabrielle Bellot. Tickets at the link in my bio.
