The TueDo List: What's Next for ❌?
Plus: Wisdom from game-changing Black women, legendary women of hip-hop and Elizabeth Kennedy
THIS WEEK
LISTEN: This episode of the Rolling Stone podcast about the women who helped create hip-hop. Tune in to almost any radio station in the world.
READ: Love, loneliness, and the chicken in my freezer. The anxiety of being a Black runner. How my grandma reclaimed her femininity and I shed mine. “WAP,” but about presidents. What happened to The Wing? We’ll part our hair any which way we want.
SWEAT: BYO leg-warmers: Jane Fonda's Original Workout is available on Prime.
CUT + PASTE: Follow the POC Zine Project and browse the Barnard Zine Library. Plug your favorite photos into Same Energy and see what happens.
ADD TO CART: Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This. All the jewelry at Black Owned Everything. Try not to lick your fingers: “Everything Bagel” nail polish.
STREAM:
Tuesday: The Black Church (PBS) and Season 5 of Queen Sugar (OWN).
Wednesday: Mahershala Ali, Diane Lane in Amend: The Fight for America (Netflix).
Thursday: Drama series It's a Sin, about the AIDS epidemic in 1980s London (HBO Max).
Friday: Dianne Wiest in I Care a Lot (Netflix). Mary J. Blige in The Violent Heart (on demand).
NEW! Introducing Next for X
Welcome to our brand new section, Next for X, a place for Gen Xers (and Gen X-proximate) to ask, marvel at, wonder about, or shake our fists at, well… what the hell is next? I mean, we’re not always ones to talk about the future — because, ahem, we’re the ones building it. *wink* BUT, we do know that one day we woke up and the world looked pretty different, with all those kids in line behind us…
Next for X, Sponsored by #disruptaging
STORY: 8 Game-Changing Black Women Over 40
By TueNight Crew
We’re continuing to celebrate Black history month by focusing on the present: We’re highlighting a few TueNighters doing amazing, revolutionary things in fashion, TV, medicine, comedy, music, and more.
TUENIGHT 10: Elizabeth Kennedy
Age: 65+ and loving being on Medicare.
Basic bio: Elizabeth is the founder and boss of the badass landscape architecture firm, EKLA—Black-owned, woman-run, and at 26+ years, survivor-strong. If you’ve walked through the landscape at the Weeksville Heritage Center, or wondered about the mounds at the African Burial Ground National Monument, you’ve experienced some of their work.
Beyond the bio: I used to wonder why my mother grew freer as she got older, so that by the time she died she was totally cool. There comes a time when you realize you’re not as lucky, not as bulletproof, that ‘resilient’ means something new—and something definitely better.
What makes you a grown-ass lady? Finally accepting—finally!—that certain things are out of my hands. Can finally say, “So be it,” and sleep well at night.
Have a safe Mardi Gras, Tuenighters!