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Marketing History: Not Good, Not Bad, Just OK
May 5

May 5 Marketing History: Not Good, Not Bad, Just OK

Karen Corday

TEDIUM

How was the short, doomed OK Soda campaign so ahead of its time as to entirely predict the advertising landscape of 25 years into the future—and how did 1994’s crashing failure become 2020’s business as usual?

Who Influences The Influencers? On SARK and Sarah Ban Breathnach's Lite Feminism
Feb 5

Feb 5 Who Influences The Influencers? On SARK and Sarah Ban Breathnach's Lite Feminism

Karen Corday

AVIDLY

It’s likely that Ban Breathnach, SARK, and other self-helpers were many women’s first experience with centering their own needs and prioritizing nurturing one’s self in addition to (or even instead of!) doing so for others. 

A Late Start: Mount Holyoke and the 1916 Polio Epidemic
Jan 24

Jan 24 A Late Start: Mount Holyoke and the 1916 Polio Epidemic

Karen Corday

MOUNT HOLYOKE ALUMNAE QUARTERLY

“…amid descriptions of South Hadley weather, trips to Springfield in a friend’s car and some “nice but smelly” cats making an appearance in her zoology lab, Adaline Chase, class of 1919, noted “college has been postponed until Oct 5.”

Research Extravaganza: Gettin' Boolean With It!
Nov 8

Nov 8 Research Extravaganza: Gettin' Boolean With It!

Karen Corday

TWO BOSSY DAMES

It is 100% fine and good if you prefer to enjoy the products of research exclusively, but if you’re the sort of person who wants to cultivate some research process nerd tendencies, here are some of the things we do a lot.

Linda Ronstadt's Passionate Life of Song
Sep 6

Sep 6 Linda Ronstadt's Passionate Life of Song

Karen Corday

HYPERALLERGIC

“Rock and roll stars tend to … lose the ability to focus on themselves as a person rather than as an image, and that’s dangerous.”

Here Are the Best Bob Ross Pep Talks
May 15

May 15 Here Are the Best Bob Ross Pep Talks

Karen Corday

HYPERALLERGIC

Here are five episodes of The Joy of Painting to watch when you need Bob Ross to set you straight, kindly and lovingly.

Eat More, They're Healthy: The Rise & Fall of SnackWell's
Apr 2

Apr 2 Eat More, They're Healthy: The Rise & Fall of SnackWell's

Karen Corday

TEDIUM

Perhaps those of us who ate SnackWell’s as children as a last resort because there were no other cookies in the house deserve to remember them unhappily. They weren’t meant for us in the first place.

Mixtape Memoirs: The Soundtracks of Our Lives
Nov 16

Nov 16 Mixtape Memoirs: The Soundtracks of Our Lives

Karen Corday

TWO BOSSY DAMES

We both loooooove a mixtape, so we decided to create & swap playlists and interview each other about them. As I was listening, I noticed a theme: Dancing While Crying.

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