Weekend Reads is a series by Wardrobe Oxygen that is published every Saturday. Art, music, interesting articles, sale alerts, and reviews of TV, movies, books, theater, and art exhibits by Alison Gary, and over-40 working mom in the Maryland Suburbs of Washington, D.C.
Weekend Reads What has this school Year cost America’s children? (Men Yell At Me) Masks are off — which means men will start telling women to ‘Smile!’ again. (Washington Post) Do I have an aesthetic? (Vogue) When your home Is a hormonal hellscape: puberty and perimenopause are a heady combination. (New York Times) MoMA built…
Weekend Reads I was seriously obsessed with Sinead O’Connor as a high schooler and kept my obsession under wraps after the SNL experience. I often think how different that moment would have been taken in current times. Loved reading about O’Connor now and how positively she took being “canceled” back then. (New York Times) Flint…
Weekend Reads Since the first two Palestinian intifadas, camera phones and social media have changed the landscape of global outrage. (The Intercept) Working remotely for the last year has revealed just how much of office culture is accidental, arbitrary, and sexist. (Neiman Lab) The inadequacy of the term “Asian American”. (Vox) How online harassment became…
While America is starting to open up with over 30% of adults already vaccinated (Becker’s Hospital Review), other parts of the world are still on lockdown. And in India, COVID is raging on with numbers exceeding what our world experienced a year ago. India only has about 2% of its population vaccinated. Their hospitals are…
Weekend Reads Dieta culture & me. (Bustle) As a bioengineer, Linda Griffith once grew a human ear on the back of a mouse. Now she is reframing endometriosis as a key to unlocking some of biology’s greatest secrets. (New York Times) I don’t want to stress you out but… Sleeping too little in middle age…
This week I got my second Pfizer shot. My mom is vaccinated, my sister and husband have one more shot to go, and hopefully they will open it up soon to those 2+ so our kid can also get it. It has me thinking about the summer. And that has me feeling all kinds of…
Last year, when it seemed there was a tragedy each week, I began the “How to Help” section in Weekend Reads. Showcasing charities and organizations striving to do good, and donating profits to it made me feel like I was doing something. Last year, Wardrobe Oxygen donated thousands to these organizations and I feel now……
Welcome back, after my first Weekend Reads off since starting this series back in 2018. Taking off for Spring Break last week with my kid wasn’t really a vacation, but it was so helpful in getting my mind straight. I was chatting with a fellow self-employed friend this week and we discussed how we have…
The best reads on the Internet this week, suggestions on what to watch, read, and listen to, and a song for your weekend.