The TueDo List: The Hustle Issue
Plus a Gen-X playlist, sultry scents and a new Lunachicks book
THIS WEEK
📖 READ: Angelica Ross explains why trans joy is revolutionary. Teen angst and despair: A Gen-X playlist that somehow doesn’t include every track from The Hurting?? In my early 40s, I am LIVING for these MTV reunion shows. The return of Liz Phair.
🎧 LISTEN: Margit was interviewed about Gen-X money, life, and legacy on the So Money podcast.
🤣 LOL: Emma Thompson is anti-underpants. I'm "Jessie's Girl" and I don't know either of those guys. Surprise—it’s your clothes!
🛒 ADD TO CART: New books from Sinéad O'Connor and the Lunachicks. LEGO's Everyone Is Awesome set.
📺 STREAM
Now: PRIDE, a six-part documentary series chronicling the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights in America. (Hulu, FX)
Thursday: We Are Lady Parts, a comedy about a Muslim female punk band. (Peacock)
Friday: Julianne Moore stars in Lisey's Story, based on the novel by Stephen King. (Apple TV+)
NEW: The Hustle Issue
From disco moves on a shag rug, to jobs we never knew we needed, to side hustles selling gently-used jeans, we explore all the ways we’re hustling to get by.
In the Issue:
Margit asks if we should, in fact, Do the Hustle?
Diane Di Costanzo offers confessions of a 60-something hustler
Jennifer Hill adopts a gig mentality
Fran Mason opens — and closes — a gym, but finds her extrovert inside
And in “Ask a Grown-Ass Woman” a reader asks if her job is exploiting her — Stacy Morrison has the grown-ass answer.
OBSESSED: Sultry Scents, Floral Notes
By Diana Kane
This spring I’ve been burying my face in clusters of lilacs, visiting the botanic garden as often as I can, and even going out of my way to visit an ambrosial wisteria blooming a block away.
And now that I’m going out more, fragrance, and lipstick(!) are both back in rotation…
FOR MEMBERS: Upcoming Events on TueNighters
Lots of good things are coming up on TueNighters.com
This week: Join us for our first No-Pressure Book Club get-together
Next week: Margit will be in conversation with Uju Asika, the author of Bringing Up Race: How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World. This one’s open to the public and you can register here.
The week after that: Keisha “TK” Dutes (whose name you may recognize from the “Hear to Slay” podcast) kicks off a course on how to change careers.
Keep on hustling, TueNighters!