HeyJaredAs I Was Saying with Poorna Bell
Social commentary and essays from career to mental wellbeing, capturing the general WTF of life and topical news, by award-winning author, former HuffPost Exec editor and lifter of heavy weights, Poorna Bell.
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Practical Magic 2, preserved faces and the problem of not talking about the elephant in the room (opens the original)
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The Sydney Sweeney ad isn’t about sport, it’s about something much worse (opens the original)
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A deep, furious rejection of the lie that women are better at multi-tasking (opens the original)
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The world needs a yarn-ball of lies to convince women to take on more labour than men and nowhere is this more pervasive than the idea that women are better than multi-tasking. The lie is so clever that women internalise it as a point of pride (we can do something men cannot) and then perpetuate it by saying things like ‘well, you know men are useless at that kind of thing’ when another woman is ranting about one’s partner and their inability to remember things as they relate to the home. <a cla
Why launching a snail mail club in my mid-40s has given me back my joy (opens the original)
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The beauty of middle age is realising imposter syndrome no longer works on me (opens the original)
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There are many facets of discussion around imposter syndrome that have evolved over time, but it’s generally accepted as feeling as if you don’t deserve a certain opportunity, that you will fail at it, or that you don’t belong. Sometimes, it’s a cute combination of all three. But, as women - especially women of colour - have pushed back against over the years, is it imposter syndrome when someone else is literally telling you that you don’t deserve the job? When the negative narrative is externa
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