Issue 02 · Saturday, August 8
FROM THE YELLOW DESK Mo, actually
A case for bad singing.
A love letter to being bad at something, from a woman who makes her living deciding who's good enough.
Read → A case for bad singing
MONEY, HONEY Wealth, explained
Un-fragile — what stability actually means
Look up “financially stable” and you’ll find a definition that was never once measured for a woman. So we threw it out and built the one that counts what actually keeps you standing.
Read → Un-fragile — what stability actually means
SMITTEN No apology
Of one mind, briefly.
You don't need to tell a back four from a bake sale. For one month the whole cross-grained planet turned to face the same small thing, and we fell in without meaning to.
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WORN The good fit
Ten reds, and a drawer
Ten shades of red in the drawer, every one of them still perfect, none of them ever worn. The problem was never the shade — and we can prove it.
Read → Ten reds, and a drawer
That’s Issue 02. We’re in your inbox every Saturday. Next time — Office Hours: the words they use on you at work, held up to the light. "Executive presence," "she's ambitious," and what they actually mean.
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