Posted in data, feminism, gender, language on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Go here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
Type feminism,gender, equality into the search bar.
Type 1910 and 2010 in the year filter.
You’ll get this graph.
Fascinating that equality has consistently existed within our language for 100 years and at the height of feminism, gender was in its glory days.
If I was a gambler, I’d pick equality to win this marathon.
feminism, gender, equality
Posted in awesome, class, data, nonprofits, philanthropy on August 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
artist: gilles krivich, found via hard feelings blog
A few things I learned yesterday:
1. crows have memories that last forever so be nice them
2. interactions with young, like 13 years old, boys are beautifully brave
3. when analyzing information, look beyond the obvious and start there
4. finding oneself in spaces where you can literally feel a tension or dynamic should be internalized and remembered like a crow
5. there is nothing better in this world than a west coast sunset
Posted in art, data, work on July 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
artist: david carol, found via thesilverliningblog
Navigating pathways in spaces that have friction, tension, or whatever you like to call situations where you don’t belong.
Forty hours of meetings, forty more to go.
A laser focus on numbers (percentages, significant gains, deviations) ignores the subject. I can’t figure out if my level of tolerance has gone up or down and the original meanings for both.
I thought it was a scientific fact that if you focus, you lose the bigger picture.
Posted in abortion, appropriation, data, gender, marketing, politics on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not surprised that with the masculine tsunami that is about to hit the southeastern United States that this is the image that most fascinates me.
There has been much typed about women in the workforce which may explain the graphic representation of the “economic recovery”.
This year’s Super Bowl has been dominated by the concept of choice and the extremes that entail. And the game hasn’t even been played yet. It’s a classic tale of against-all-odds-I-will-survive.
I’m not sure who will win but as Dinosaur Jr wails, “I’m over it”.
If you’d like to subject yourself to even more hyper images of masculine femininity, go here.
