Author: carnot

I took several months “off” which is to say I didn’t write a blog post here and I stopped posting #Crusadurdays. Though the time aligned with summer, I can’t say that was the reason; rather, I felt I had run out of any new thoughts or contributions to the discourse that seemed to add any […]

Today is the first day of Spring, a time often associated with rebirth and fresh growth. And while there are reasons for optimism (one can always find reasons for optimism), I find myself much more inclined to dwell on the sheer volume of bullsh*t this month has brought. It’s been an anti-women’s history month, full […]

A few weeks ago, I had the gift of seeing Stacey Abrams speak about her journey and her work. I laughed. I cried. I felt seen. I felt inspired. Every word was authentic and sincere. Every observation was profound and came from hard-won experience. It’d be hard to distill everything I took away because it […]

I’ve been working my way through Peloton’s “Year of Yes” collaboration with Shonda Rhimes and find myself inspired and activated by it in ways that I honestly didn’t expect to be. In one session, themed “Your CEO Mission Statement,” we were challenged to come up with ours. I despaired when I didn’t have one (the […]

In 2020, I lost track of days of the week and my brain was convinced that every day was Thursday. But in August, Andrew suggested that we introduce a new day: Crusadurday (I go back and forth about whether it should be Crusadurday or Crusaturday but since we’re emphasizing the “crusading” part of this wombo, […]

In a recent event hosted by the women’s network Chief, the inimitable Mindy Kaling shared the following anecdote: “I hated being the diversity hire on “The Office,” which is what I was when I was hired. That was literally my title, and the other writers knew it. I was a Staff Writer, but I was […]

It’s fitting that my mom was the one to alert me to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. My mom who, in ways small and large, taught me to be someone who understands that what you do is less important than how you do it and for what reasons.  I admit: RBG passing sent me into a […]