The LadyBits Download V.1.4
Now that we’ve gotten to know each other a bit, let’s get this quick and dirty version out of the way. Behold, our favorite articles from the beloved Medium collection and some gems from around the web. Further down, fun activities for that brief but magical time you spend away from your computer.
The Week in LadyBits Content:
Like it or not, today is Valentine's Day. We know, we know, but stay with us — the LadyBits team pulled together our killer tips for making today suck less. Here are our 6 Seriously Rad V-Day Gift Ideas For Your Love (Or BFF). You can thank us later.
In a post that’s been making quite a few laps online this week, we’re reminded that people who work in startups, especially those people of the female persuasion, are inherent risk-takers, flirting with failure on a daily basis. That’s why we so agree with Pippa Biddle’s encouragement to Date a Girl in Startups. Or, you know, just hire her already. (Ed note: she is not related to that other Biddle of the internet.)
When dating a girl in startups leads to something more, perhaps you two will reach the point of Making a Baby the Not-At-All Old-Fashioned Way. In an anonymous post, we read the regrets of a woman who was artificially inseminated. They include watching Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
Whether or not you’re at the becoming-responsible-for-another-human-life-phase, Summer Land has compiled a kickass list of apps for your very own personal “Shark Week.” Check out 5 Period Tracking Apps To Make Your Time-Of-The-Month A Total Breeze over on Refinery29 whether you want to plan for Aunt Flo’s monthly visits or chart your fertility.
Links From Around the Webz:
Buy me now: That statue of a sleepwalking man in his underwear on an all-female campus? We’d like use it on our note-leaving neighbors.
Brunch talk: A Redditor was totally bummed out about the fake female profile he created and all the creepy and angry messages he got.
Ummm: A computer sciences professor asked his students to calculate if a rape victim would kill herself and we have no words.
Ann Friedman, be our bestie: The wise lady of the internet is back to break down reactions to Dylan Farrow’s accusations against Woody Allen.
Stuff to Get You Out of the House:
Thursday, Feb. 13 and Friday, Feb. 14
Women 2.0 Conference, San Francisco, prices vary
Come talk about giving founders, investors and leaders the information and connections they need to thrive in tech’s new outsized reality that includes big kid dreams and real world challenges like re-engineering the American education system for the 21st century, commercializing manned spaceflight and hobnobbing with the President.
Friday, Feb. 14
Privately Published: A Descent Into Early 20th Century Mail Order Erotica, NYC, $12
There’s still room to join writer Colin Dickey for a peek into the world of early 20th century mail-order erotica.
Thursday, Feb. 20,
Tesla got it from his mother, NYC, Free
Head the indomitable Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic speak at Harlem Biospace on everything regarding Tesla’s mother Djuka. Vunjak-Novakovic, herself a distant relative, will elaborate on how the consummate innovator taught her inventor son.
This edition of the LadyBits Download was generated thanks to efforts by Delia Paunescu, Alexandra Dao, Alexandra Ossola, Rose Eveleth, and Arikia Millikan.
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