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Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family & Creating a New Age of Independence by Dr. Amy Blackstone

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BINGO: I Love This Best for: I wish everyone would read this. Parents who don’t understand why people would choose to not be parents can learn a lot about society’s misconceptions, but us childfree folks really benefit from writing that treats us as well-adjusted adults, not selfish, juvenile misanthropes. In a nutshell: Sociologist Blackstone looks at what it means to choose a life without children of one’s own. Worth quoting: I underlined something on nearly every page, and starred something especially poignant probably every three […]

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That’s why it loves perfectionists–it’s so easy to keep us quiet.”

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown

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Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston, has spent two decades studying shame, vulnerability, and courage. This doesn’t necessarily make her a lot of fun at parties. In fact, she jokes that when she tells people she studies shame, they look away uncomfortably and find someone else to talk to. Yet she also has five best-selling books to her name, and her  TED Talk on vulnerability is one of the top 25 most popular TED talks of all time. I hesitate to […]

The System Is So Different Here, But It’s Still Broken

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken by Anonymous

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Best for: Anyone interested in the English criminal justice system. In a nutshell: An actively practicing barrister shares what goes on in the English justice system, and offers suggestions of ways to fix it. Worth quoting: “Early guilty please equal cheap guilty please. It does not follow, of course, that early guilty please equal correct guilty please.” “Defense legal aid, and the effective adversarialism that it permits, doesn’t simply protect the defendant; it protects the public by keeping the prosecution, and the court system, honest.” […]

What stereotype are you most afraid of confirming?

Whistling Vivaldi And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us by Claude M. Steele

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A group of social psychologists at Princeton University conducted a study in which they asked white male students who were “reasonably athletically inclined” to play ten rounds on a miniature putting course in a laboratory. Some were told nothing about the purpose of the test, while others were told that the test measured natural athletic ability. Those that were told the test measured their athletic ability performed much worse than those who were told nothing about what the test might mean. In the second part […]

It Could Work If We Are Open To It

Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionize Our Lives by Annie Lowrey

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Best for: Anyone interested in changing the world, addressing poverty, or fixing the ills of capitalism. In a nutshell: What would the world — or just the US — look like if every single person received money every single month. Regardless of need. Regardless of ability to work. Just to keep them at a baseline level of existence, out of poverty. Worth quoting (so much – sorry!): “We no longer have a jobs crisis … but we do have a good-jobs crisis, a more permanent, […]



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