February 21, 2022
- Amber
- Mar 1, 2022
- 2 min read
Hello Book Club Friends,
Next month we will be reading The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel. Throughout her career, Bechdel's cartoons have "realistically captured the lives of women in the lesbian community as they influenced and were influenced by the important cultural and political events of the day". I often pick the books that BOSLady reads and while I try to be diverse, inclusive and equitable in the weekly three, the authors of the book I choose have not signaled strongly. This is my first move to amend that. All suggestions are welcome.
Our meeting for this book will be on March 15th, the third Tuesday of March, so that we have a little more time to read it.
Please also mark your calendars for WILD's celebration of International Women's Day on March 8th. A highly convenient progressive event, there are meetings all day, every hour on the hour from 12pm EST to 12pm PST. Last year I attended this event and am thrilled that they are repeating it this year.
***revision from Kelly Roberts**
his year we’re talking about Breaking the Bias, and each hour will focus on a theme for positive stories, learning, inspiration, and networking. Our themes are: Lead, Value, Confront, and Empower, at 12PM EST/CST/MST/PST. Come for as much or as little as you can - I hope to see you there!
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The Weekly Three
1. Something about the Olympics and anti-Asian hate: Chinese American Eileen Gu has received criticism for growing up in the United States but competing for China. Korean American gold medalist snowboarder Chloe Kim receives threats because she does compete for the US. Straight from the Winter Olympics website itself: the games "highlight the crude reality of the plight of Asian women: of only being seen when they have something to offer".
2. Something surprisingly interesting to listen to about the evolution of office furniture: Did you know that the fabric walls of modern cubicles were NOT the intention of the panels' original inventor? Listen to or read about The Action Office dreamed up by Robert Propst and George Nelson as a work space for each employee that would include "a coffee table, and a semi-enclosed phone booth, and a kind of book shelf, and a standing desk". Corporate America never took to it. Then Propst dreamed up " fabric-covered room dividers that were modular and mobile" that "Propst explicitly did not want them sitting at right angles creating cube". Efficiency wins again.
3. Something about anti-ambition in the workplace: by Noreen Malone
Thank you for your time,
Amber Watnik
(she/her)
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