Looking Sideways: 10 Things
The things I thought were worth sharing this week.
1. My latest Roundtable episode, in association with my pals at Db, and featuring friends of the show Kepa Acero and Timothy Myers. We discussed the notion of responsible travel, and a very lively discussion it was indeed. Listen below:
2. ‘Would you rather be trapped in the woods with a man or a bear?’ goes one recent, very viral and very effective question when it comes to debating the topic of violence against women. Pieces about this are all over the place, but I thought this Stylist article was particularly interesting.
3. One of the books I enjoyed most in the last few years was Dorian Lynskey’s biography of 1984. So I’m really looking forward to his latest Everything Must Go, a look at our collective obsession with thinking we live in the worst period of history, and which was extracted here.
4. Friend-of-the-show Lucy Small (aka Saltwater Pilgrim) has joined forces with my Someday Sessions pals for this forthcoming evening in Tynemouth. More info and tickets here.
5. This sounds intriguing - new film X Trillion follows the first all-women expedition to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Per the press release: ‘The feature debut by Eleanor Church, follows the gruelling journey of eXXpedition’s all-women crew as they sail 3,000 miles across the North Pacific Ocean through the densest accumulation of ocean plastic on the planet - in order to make the unseen, seen.’
Watch the trailer above.
6. My thanks to friend-of-the-show Gavin Fernie-Jones for sharing this thought-provoking story about the morality of civil disobedience- a good companion piece to the Rolling Stone story I shared last week.
7. In which Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has a mild pop at Taylor Swift, and an incredibly geeky debate about punctuation - and boomer misogyny - ensues.
8. When happened when Elon Musk went after climate activist Clover Hogan?
9. Still not really sure what I make of Fallout. Anybody else watching it?
10. Finally - Looking Sideways notebooks, anybody? If that sounds like a bit of you, click here.
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