Introducing: Open Letters
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Hello readers! Today I’m experimenting with a few monthly feature: Open Letters from you to me.
It will work like this: On the first of the month, I’ll open up a comment section for you to ask or offer just about whatever you like. Do you have a question about politics or feminism or anything else? Something you’d like to see in this newsletter? An article you read or something you wrote that you want to share? Something you tried recently that you’d recommend? A topic you’d like to discuss? Feedback for the newsletter? Questions for other commenters / subscribers? Something you’d just itching to chat about with other smart people? Put it in the comments. And feel free to respond to others’ comments as well. Think of this like some combination of letters to the editor, blog Open Threads, and Reddit’s Ask Me Anything.
The only rule is: Don’t be a jerk, to me or to anyone else in this community (and if you are a jerk, I will delete your comment).
If there are enough questions / discussion topics, I’ll do a separate post addressing some of them. But let’s see how it goes! And if it goes well, we’ll make this a monthly thing.
Leave your comments / questions / discussion topics below.
xx Jill
I was pleasantly surprised to see your column in the Guardian today. I don’t listen to Taylor Swift but I love that she took control of her own career, and is making the MAGA set just about swallow their tongues.
I'm a millenial who's been almost born and raised in Iran (i lived a few years in Moscow with my parents during my childhood), a country known for suppressing females' rights (thanks for covering stories about girls and women in Iran in your newsletter "This week in women" and some of your posts). My question is this: why is it soooooooo difficult for me to detach myself from my parents and look out more for myself, do things i dream of doing, and not feel bound to my parents and their families?