Screenplay about two queer women who pose as a matchmaker and a tradwife so they can take some man for all he’s worth. Have it on my desk Monday
Beautiful longread for your Monday evening. An antidote to ponder...
Proofing the footnotes for my forthcoming book on women's clubs and music. This is my favorite headline: in 1921, Anne Oberndorfer was on a rampage, campaigning against jazz.
Hmm in retelling the beetle story I’m realizing maybe his “revising” some family letters was not entirely out of nowhere…
The Ford Administration marked the Bicentennial on July 4 with an event at Independence Hall. Attendance was ~100,000. The day opened with Black opera singer Marian Anderson, the daughter of working class parents, reading Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. commerce.veritone.com/search/asset...
Gender-based salary inequity also remained a central finding. Across all full-time faculty ranks combined, women earned an average of $21,386 less than men (or 83.6% of men’s average salary). The widest within-rank gap remained at the full professor level: a salary-equity ratio of 87.3.
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Going through the copy edits of a forthcoming article. This is my favorite sentence: "Hearing a work by a woman was a routine event, and thousands of clubwomen were deeply familiar with music by women composers."
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Today's historic find: 1918. Helen G. Steele, president of the Missouri Federation of Music Clubs, unexpectedly conducts a 3000-voice community chorus with a small band at Forest Park in St. Louis (and better than the male conductor before her).
