Longform Podcast: Ann Friedman →

annfriedman:

Hey, I’m the guest on this week’s Longform Podcast! Listen to me and my pal Max Linsky talk about why I’m glad I had experience as an editor before I became a freelance writer, why I believe in kissing down rather than kissing up, what really went down at GOOD, and why I’m so excited to be working at this moment in media.

The entire GOOD + Tomorrow magazine story! And a REALLY nice shoutout to me from Ann! Rose Lindsay warmfuzzies <3 <3 <3

"Comparing salaries among colleagues has long been a taboo of workplace chatter, but that is changing as Millennials—individuals born in the 1980s and 1990s—join the labor force. Accustomed to documenting their lives in real time on social-media forums like Facebook and Twitter, they are bringing their embrace of self-disclosure into the office with them. And they’re using this information to negotiate raises at their current employer or higher salaries when moving to a new job."

SO INTO the idea of a massive salary #realtalk sea change ushered in by 20somethings. Jen Doll partly attributes this to Millennials’ penchant for crowdsourcing. (I think she was smirking, but it’s kinda true.)

Also—you knew this was coming—salary realtalk is a tangible way to lessen the blows of the recent decline of real wages. Young workers are always paid less, but transparency can prevent us from being straight-up exploited.

(Source: minimumragers)

KDAY, the best radio station of all time, is not long for this world. Pour a sip on the concrete, y’all.

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Holy eff. In two subway stops, from Grand Army Plaza (where I grew up) to Franklin Ave (where I live now), the median income falls from $109K to $35K. Which doesn’t illustrate downward mobility so much as prove that Crown Heights is Park Slope in 1991.

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One, rad feminists of the 1960s and 1970s did not all look alike. That cliched Norman Mailer-esque view overlooks the fact that it’s war-paint makeup and girdles that cause women to look like clones, not going au naturel. I get so sick of people saying rad fems were not beautiful — have they ever seen pictures of the young Ellen Willis, Shulamith Firestone, or Jill Johnston? How about Michele Wallace when she wrote “Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman?” Hot!! I’d burn my bra for any of them.

Two, if Dowd thinks that only non-feminists like “Desperate Housewives” clothing — i.e. sexy retro duds — then she’s never met Carol Queen. Or Nellie McKay. Or these ladies.

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Ann Powers, 2005, on this Maureen Dowd tome.

(Source: ellenwillis)

I was on the Melissa Harris-Perry show tawkin Millennials and the future of work. Task this weekend: To make my “real job” air quotes moment a gif.

"Even though the recession is over, this generation is not looking to gorge; instead, they are the kind of hungry that cannot stop thinking about food."

Annie Lowrey nails it in the New York Times mag.

NEW YORK #REALEST8 w/ Amina

originalwhip:

Aminatou:  i could fuck with LES

or chelsea

 me:  yeah

 Aminatou:  but then i go to carroll gardens

and i’m like this is cute

solange lives here

i could be happy here

LES weekdays + Carroll Gardens housing stock + Chelsea diversity circa 1992 = the perfect hood. 

tomorrowmag:

We’re thrilled to be a finalist for general excellence in the 2013 Utne Media Awards! Congrats to all the other nominees.

SO PROUD of my homies. Also—we’re in amazing company!

"My husband and I, even though we are currently in the DINK category (double income, no kids), started squirreling away money in a “nanny fund” right after we got married. Why? If I am going to continue “leaning in” to my career, even having a supportive husband is not enough to compensate for this dismal finding: When a husband and wife are both employed full-time, the mother does 40 percent more childcare and about 30 percent more housework than the father. And in 2013 we are hardly closer as a society than Boomers were to universal paid maternity or paternity leave or flexible careers that facilitate the coexistence of career and parenthood. Instead, parents—usually moms—rev up for turboparenting at whatever late hour they get off work. The second shift, as sociologist Arlie Hochschild coined, is alive and kicking."

I find it unfortunate that Hannah Seligson mentions her own husband directly before she presents disheartening statistics about the unequal division of domestic labor. As if these are just facts of life, that just because not much has changed since the publication of “The Second Shift,” nothing ever will.

Squirreling away money in a nanny fund because my dude won’t be expected to share childcare duties? Yikes. I don’t plan to accept the brunt of childcare just because he “prefer[s] to watch football with the guys.” It’s one thing if we’re both working long hours, but it’s another to assume that boys will be boys. Part of the onus is on employers and policymakers to ease the stress on working mothers, but we also have to demand more from our partners—like splitting childcare duties 50/50.