The TueDo List: Lady Bosses + Caftan Summer + Grown-Ass Advice
And a TueNighter who kissed Rick Springfield
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: How I found peace and happiness calling Kentucky’s cicada hotline. An oral history of the Lesbian Avengers and the Dyke March. Pride has always been a glorious mess. The only band Prince was ever afraid of: The Time. “Every summer is a caftan summer.”
👀 LOOK: The Ramones on Regis and Kathy Lee in 1988.
🎧 LISTEN: Post-COVID dating advice from Dr. Ruth. Loving Sally Ride.
🤣 LOL: A, um, hands-on review of pants you can pee in. The name of this new menopause literary zine.
🛒 ADD TO CART: Vivienne Westwood Catwalk: The Complete Collections. Anything called “go-to-hell pants.”
📺 STREAM
Now: Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story. (CNN)
Ongoing: Rhino Rewind, a new music video watch party series. So far they’ve done Debbie Gibson, Chaka Khan, and the B-52s. (YouTube)
Friday: Questlove’s Summer of Soul. (Theaters and Hulu)
Sunday: Barack and Michelle Obama's animated music series We The People. (Netflix)
TONIGHT: Join Margit in conversation with Kristin van Ogtrop. FREE!
Join us tonight at 7pm (Eastern) for our next TueNight Tea, where Margit will talk to Kristin van Ogtrop (author of Did I Say that Out Loud?, former Editor in Chief of Real Simple, and Margit’s former boss!) about midlife humiliations, hilarity, and triumphs. The event is free, but you’ll need to register first.
ADVICE: Is My Job Exploiting Me?
By Stacy Morrison
Dear TueNight,
Does my philosophy of taking pay where I can get it undermine the higher rate that I should be asking for? Am I being exploited by a company that has no compunction to drop me to part-time after 14 years of full-time work?
TueNight 10: Michelle Arnold
TueNighter Michelle Arnold knows her way around mid-century decor and has some capital-S Stories. “I’ve taught school in France, been kissed by Rick Springfield, hugged by Simon Le Bon, had cheesecake with my absolute childhood hero, Stephanie Zimbalist (from Remington Steele), and I get to live in NYC and work with music, my life-long passion, every day.”
Have a safe and happy holiday weekend, Tuenighters!
Such a treasure to read!