#feministfriday episode 22 | Work and play

Hullo,

This piece on being a photojournalist has been doing the rounds, and if you've not read it yet I recommend it now. It really helped me to reconceptualize "having a difficult day working for my and Lynsey Addario's mutual employer". Obviously, there's lots more going on in it than a tough day at work:

“I’m Dr. Verma,” she announced, with no enthusiasm. “Everything looks fine.”

“Am I really pregnant?” I asked.

“Yes, you are.”

“Oh.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/what-can-a-pregnant-photojournalist-cover-everything.html?_r=1

This is a really great interview with Patricia Arquette:

Sometimes actors get bummed out, but if you don’t really detach your self esteem from if you do or don’t get a part, or if you do or don’t get a good review, this business will drive you insane. [..] You really have to have some sense of yourself and your own value as a human being that noone else can take away.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/02/patricia-arquette-boyhood-feminism-ageing

This week I was made aware of this scene from The Ocarina Of Time:

Alex.