Shirley Chisholm and The Strawberry Dress

Different Things Can Be Sad

As the wonderful and wise Taylor Swift once said: August slipped away like a bottle of wine. So here we are, already talkin’ all about the month of August 2020! Listen to hear us discus the legacy and influence of Shirley Chisholm, the viral power of that Strawberry Dress, and exciting new media bits like Nice White Parents, Boys State, and I May Destroy You.

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Reading

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks on Race (essay collection by Jesmyn Ward)

Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer

Watching

American Made

Boys State on Apple TV

I May Destroy You on HBO (USA) – Trigger Warning: Sexual violence. Please feel free to skip from 15:00 to 19:15 if you would like to skip this discussion.

Listening

Nice White Parents by Serial and The New York Times

Imploding The Mirage by The Killers

Down In The Weeds, Where The World Once Was by Bright Eyes

Politics

*Note: Lena Dunham was actually involved in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign in a different, controversial way to the one we discussed in this segment (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/01/25/politically-illiterate-democratic-celebrities-continue-to-embarrass-themselves/) It was actually Taylor Swift who felt her public image would be detrimental to the campaign (https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/8/8/20791816/taylor-swift-hillary-clinton-2016-endorsement-vogue-september-issue)

• https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/08/12/kamala-harris-shirley-chisholm/
• https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm
• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/unbought-and-unbossed-when-black-woman-ran-for-the-white-house-180958699/
• https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/C/CHISHOLM,-Shirley-Anita-(C000371)/

Pop Culture

• https://lirikamatoshi.com/pages/about
• https://www.vogue.com/article/strawberry-dress-lirika-matoshi-popular
• https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/lirika-matoshi-strawberry-dress
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/style/strawberry-dress-tiktok-instagram-who-designed-where-to-get.html
• https://www.allure.com/story/tess-holliday-strawberry-dress-tiktok-trend-fatphobia
• https://goodonyou.eco/how-ethical-is-zara/
• https://thecurvyfashionista.com/size-inclusive-vs-plus-size/
• https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/kim-kardashian-fashion-nova-mugler-knockoff-1203037428/
• https://www.glamour.com/story/fat-tax-is-about-more-than-money