Category Archives: Education
Rosie in the News #6
Last weekend, the National Park Service opened a brand new visitor center at the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Homefront National Historic Park. Why there is slash in the name, I’m not entirely sure. Bad case of indecision? The event kicked off … Continue reading
Filed under Media, Advertising, Politics, Education
So What Do You Do Exactly? Magazine Edition
The latest subject of the So What Do You Do Exactly? series is Jessica, who comes to us from the front lines of none other than the editorial department at Parents magazine. sdf What’s your actual job title? Editorial Assistant at Parents … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Education, Family, Guest Posts, Media
Guest Post: Trust, in Unlikely Places
Kim Green is writer, radio-producer, book-lover, gardener, photographer, pilot and advocate of amazing people doing amazing work. She writes a blog about all of these things and, but defines one of her major themes as “badass women doing cool things … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Gender, Guest Posts
Sunday Scraps 57
1. GEOGRAPHY: Lovely essay by Ciara Flynn at Thought Catalog about the lure of a geographic change when you’re looking to jumpstart your life. 2. CULTURE: Should you check your email? Here’s a flowchart, but I’ll cut to the chase: … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Hollywood, Media, Really Good Writing by Other People
Blue for the Union, Grey for the Confederacy, Pink for the Girls
I forgot about this picture I snapped from that weekend in Springfield, until this afternoon when the super awesome Peggy Orenstein (author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter) retweeted it. This is in the extensively stocked gift shop of the Lincoln Museum … Continue reading
Oh, for the love of education
Meet Virginia Foxx. Sadly, I couldn’t find a porn star who shared her name, and trust me, I looked. Come on, internet, help a sister out! Virginia Foxx is a Republican Congresswoman from North Carolina. She is also the chairwoman on … Continue reading
Happy Equal Pay Day
In 1996, the National Committee on Equal Pay started Equal Pay Day to draw attention to the chronic problem of the wage gap (which is currently at 77.4 cents). In short, the wage gap measures the difference in average pay … Continue reading
Lincoln
Last Easter, I got a tad overly enthuasiastic about Easter egg decoration, so this year I saved my geeky freak out for something truly deserving: The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, IL. If you’ve been to many a museum, … Continue reading
Rosie in the News #3
Well goddamn if this isn’t the coolest. New York University’s Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives just launched an oral history collection called The Real Rosie the Riveter Project. The archive is a collaboration between filmmakers Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly … Continue reading
“Devastating”
“Why don’t we just be honest with them [students] and be upfront that sex outside marriage is devastating?” said Rep. Bill Holden (R) of the Utah House of Representatives. I know I just wrote about this, but good God it … Continue reading
