The TueDo List: Suzi Quatro + Wakanda Forever + Meet Laurie

THIS WEEK

Suzi Quatro just released an EP of cover tunes! (Photo: SuziQuatro.com)

🇺🇸 V O T E. There’s still time.

📖 READ: A museum and clinic to honor the Mothers of Gynecology. Rachel Bloom on the finale of the hilarious Hulu series Reboot (Warning: contains spoilers!) On Octopi copulation, and pandemia restlessness, from CB James. Jill Lepore’s case against the Twitter apology. Joy Press on 5 years after #MeToo. Valerie Bertinelli is now Elon Musk. What if I’m my dog’s emotional support animal?

👀 LOOK: An archive of every human face ever found in Time Magazine. Dolly Parton closed out the Rock Hall induction performing “Jolene” with a supergroup including inductees Duran Duran, Pat Benatar & Neal Giraldo, Judas Priest, and the blown minds of everyone watching. Emus are having a social media moment.

🎧 LISTEN: “Uncovered”, a new EP of covers from Suzi Quatro, 72, proves that Leather Tuscadero’s still got it. Channel your inner Orla, Claire, Michelle, Erin or James with the official Derry Girls’ ‘90s playlists. It’s a Salt & Pepa six pack on the Mark & Sarah Talk About Songs podcast. (p.s. Pepa liked our post on Insta and we’re freaking out.)

🤣 LOL: Woman crumbling under the intense pressure to relax in the bath. This fashion trend is cool again (oh sorry, no it’s not.) 

🛒 ADD TO CART: Gabrielle Blair would like men to Ejaculate Responsibly, a Twitter thread turned book. Send a friend a daily reminder of their midlife metamorphosis with Bufahlow FeelClings. 

📺 WATCH

• Wednesday: The new cast of The Crown features Imelda Staunton as QEII and Elizabeth Debicki as a spot-on Diana, Princess of Wales. (Netflix).

• Thursday: The chaotic energy—and plot line—of Falling for Christmas with Lindsay Lohan. (Netflix) 

• Friday: The much-anticipated next offering from the MCU: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Theaters). We already have our tickets.

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TUENIGHT 10: Laurie White

Laurie seaside (left and center) and visiting the Grand Canyon (right). (Photos provided by Laurie White)

Editor’s Note: Please join me in saying a warm farewell to our fabulous Margaret Crandall who produced this newsletter with verve and wit for the last two+ years. In her stead, we’re thrilled to have Laurie White join us as our new TueDo List editor! Laurie was in fact the very *first* author of our burgeoning TueDo List, when it was just a regular feature on the Tuenight.com website. Here’s her TueNight 10 — one of those most thoughtful we’ve read.

— Margit

Your Age: 51

Basic bio: I’m a writer, editor, and online community builder. A nine-year-old Puggle runs my life. 

Beyond the bio: I realized 10 years ago after a lifetime in the closet — including, for several decades, to myself — that I didn't know exactly what I was but it definitely wasn't straight. (I've settled on queer now, which just feels right to me.) When I got sober in 2013 I necessarily threw my whole self into recovery, to the exclusion of some minor details like love and sex and identity, so coming out has been...well, imagine a sloth coming out, or that dog in the old school cartoons who ran the elevator? Right, super slow. Then a pulmonary embolism after Long COVID in 2020 shrunk the aperture on my life again. One of every four people who have them die suddenly, so don't skip your next physical, stay hydrated, and truly don’t ignore your body if it tells you something weird is going on, because a lot of the time we're right about that. Anyway, my concept of time and luck and the vagaries of blood clots has gotten really clear, so I'm going to try to make this next chapter more honest and, hopefully, a lot more fun, GOP be damned. 

What makes you a grown-ass lady?

I walk away from situations that aren’t working, aren’t healthy, that make me sick or sad or exhausted. I tell people more that they matter to me.

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STORY: Life Blinded Me and Then I Learned to See

Jenny Douglas. (Photo by Amelia Perkins.)

By Jenny Douglas

One Sunday afternoon about fifteen years ago, I wandered into a panel discussion at The Brooklyn Public Library just as Carmen Boullousa, the Mexican poet and novelist, was being asked a question.

“How do you write?” the questioner asked.

Carmen Boullousa threw her hands up in the air and slammed them down on the table in front of her. “You don’t know what you’re doing!” she burst forth, with a shout and a laugh. “You start off blinded, and you work until you begin to see.”

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Go forth and vote, TueNighters!