Weekend Links: A whole lot of nothing
This weekend: Lena Waithe’s Queen & Slim style, Sterling K. Brown’s pre-fame prayer, the meal-versus-snack debate of 2019 and more…
Photo via Unsplash user Priscilla Du Preez
My plans for Thanksgiving include a whole lot of nothing. I’m not traveling to Dallas, so I’m grateful to avoid the inescapable mayhem at LaGuardia Airport this week — even though I’ll miss fighting my cousin Chasity over my aunt Marie’s famous chocolate sheet cake come Thursday.
Before I unplug, I’ll be hosting a Q&A on branding this Wed Nov 27 from 12 p.m.–1 p.m.
It’s the second of four in a series designed to prep you and your creative business or side project for a powerful 2020. (You can catch up on the first Q&A I hosted on creativity last Wednesday in this discussion thread).
Ask me anything about establishing brand behaviors, developing visual and verbal identities, naming your products and experiences, why all of this matters to begin with or whatever else you’re wondering when it comes to branding. Then meet me there on Wednesday for my answer. I can’t wait to see what you ask!
Weekend Links: 9 interesting things to read, watch or hear from the week that was...
Talk that talk, President Obama.
More of us are renting instead of owning and it’s changing what homeownership in America looks like
Joy Reid delivers a well-spoken rebuttal to the idea of Democrats “uniting and coming together” with Trump-supporting Republicans.
Women are expected to be “likeable” in ways men aren’t, as detailed in this new book I’ll be reading during my Thanksgiving break.
“What is it about those who have nothing to lose that compels them to ask people fighting for their lives to do so politely?”
Sterling K. Brown shares his pre-fame prayer to God in this heartwarming interview.
Allthesedamnlooks from Lena Waithe’s Queen & Slim promo tour have turned me into a human heart-eye emoji.
Here’s when “equal pay day” would fall for non-Hispanic white women, Asian women and Black women
The great debate of the week: Is a slice of pizza a meal or a snack?
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Thank you for reading!
All love for life,
Michael