july editionTalkH no gloss. just the thing itself. grown up too louel"
Page 2journaling theme: rose, thorn, bucl identify one Rose (a highlight or success), one Thorn (a challenge or draining experience), and one Bud (a new idea, opportunity, or goal you want to nurture in the coming month).
Page 3from the desk, this newsletter sat oddly together at first, a piece about children losing a genre of music built for them, and a piece about a fictional mother-in-law who never once shrank herself for anyone's comfort. but read back to back, they're arguing the same thing from opposite ends: what happens to a woman's (or a girl's) relationship to her own body and voice when the only scripts handed to her were written for someone else's comfort, not hers. one piece is about absence. the other is about refusal. put together, they're basically a before-and-after. classism, borrowed choreography, unapologetic tea-sipping, all in one edition. bitter, on purpose, as always.
grown up too"the industry Bollywood does has not make music for no idea children anymore. It once did, barely: "Bum Bum Bole" from Taare Zameen Par, the "Chillar Party" title track, older still, "Lakdi ki Kathi" and "Papa Kehte Hain." songs written Loud to do with children, SO it just hands them a hip thrust"
Page 6sitcom the comeback was never just funny maya sarabhai never apologised, and that was the whole point sarabhai.vs Sarabhai Shicil sarabhai vs sarabhai gets called satire, but let's be honest about what it actually did: it took a Angelina Florence woman who refused to shrink, and let her be right, out loud, for four seasons straight.
Page 7from the issue game zone reorder the tiles in your head. talkh unscramble it nine tiles. one line about maya sarabhai.