Book Reviews and Mentions Archives • Kelly Diels

Business and capitalism are not the same thing.

I know that when I’ve wanted someone else’s life, it made me transactional, strategic, subservient, and sometimes envious. In other words: not a safe friendship or business bet.

And I know that when friends, lovers or colleagues wanted what I had, we always ended in conflict and destruction. Always.

The way we use our time is predetermined and overdetermined by our society and gender roles, and society frames our productivity as “personal choices.”

“In fact, many full-time artist reports that they have become more creatively rounded into full-time people.” – Julia Cameron. I struggle with this exactly!

I’ve been saving what I’ve been reading and metabolizing this month, these are some of the pieces threading their way into my consciousness this month.

A round-up of what I’ve been reading and metabolizing this month. I’m sharing it in case there’s good material in here for you, too.

Inventing feminist marketing ecosystems for yourself means reading way outside your niche and asking “what if…” rather than “how?”

When we encourage or teach other women (or ourselves) to be The Perfect Woman, we are doing harm. The Perfect Woman is a form of violence against women.

It isn’t that women are refusing to do leisure right. It’s that we’re part of a system that requires our labour to make the leisure of others possible.

Book Reviews and Mentions

Feminist Business, Capitalism, and Money Guilt. A Cure.

TRUTH: “You Can’t Be Friends With Someone Who Wants Your Life”

What Looks Like Personal Choices are Often Framed Up for Us By Society

We are Not Worker Bees. We are Humans…and CREATORS.

The Love + Justice Reading Rally: March 2018

The Love + Justice Reading Rally: February 2018

Feminist Marketing Tip #130: Read Outside Your Niche and Ask “What if…?”

“The Perfect Woman” is a form of Violence Against Women

Women, Work, Creativity, Leisure and Time. Because Time is a Feminist Issue.