Before the month of August arrives, do yourself a favor and go listen to July, July by The Decemberists. You’ll be instantly transferred to 2002 and your toes will be tapping.
Here are a few topics we discussed this month that you might have missed:
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Kelsey Pflender became the fastest human to row solo from California to Hawaii
“Stop calling me a tradwife” — Nara Smith on Call Your Daddy podcast
It’s not October yet, but the topic of witches is making headlines. Contemporary witchcraft—like tarot—has become big business for women, and a woman’s success, both now and in the past, is often used against her. Author, Lucianne Tonti, writes in The Guardian that historically, the primary way a woman got designated (and prosecuted) as a witch, was financial independence.
“While there were many causative factors in the witch-hunts—patriarchy, economic hardship, and religious and political tensions, to name a few—a woman’s financial independence and power made her vulnerable.”
Tonti points out that modern-day women, who are often financially independent like the women accused of being witches in past generations, are also at risk.
“Historically it’s been dangerous for women to reach for financial independence and status. While modern witchcraft, from tarot cards to astrology, has surfaced in the zeitgeist as a dreamy symbol of female intuition and girlhood, there is still risk and violence implicit in the label.
Women aren’t being burnt at the stake any more, but as we saw in June on the billboards across Melbourne depicting Victorian premier Jacinta Allan in a black pointed hat, when people want to take a woman’s power away, they’ll still call her a witch.”
Read more in The Guardian, and check out Tonti’s new book, Good Witch.
Hop in, we’re going to Arkansas to see Lucy Sparrow’s felt supermarket. Lucy spent three years creating over 20,000 felt sculptures for her show, The Beginning of Convenience. The amount of detail is astounding. In our current world of so much slop, the commitment to art simply for the love of it is giving us hope.
Want to feel instantly more chic just by reading a newsletter? Enter jewelry designer, Lizzie Fortunato, and her substack Fortune Finds. Are we planning a trip to Sicily any time soon? No. But did we gobble up her guide to the Aeolian Islands? Absolutely. It’s called manifesting.
Thank you for reading the monthly edition of Same Boat! If you’re new here, and would like to see more, we’ve removed the paywall on all articles from last year. You might enjoy reading about the Dead Internet Theory and the Target Boycott.
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