Books & Recommended Reading

Business Tip for Culture Makers #130: Read Outside Your Niche and Ask “What if…?”

By Kelly Diels / January 30, 2018 / Comments Off

Inventing culture-making business ecosystems for yourself means reading way outside your niche and asking “what if…” rather than “how?”

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

By Kelly Diels / October 13, 2016 /

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.

On the ‘Mental Triggers’ of Online Marketing, The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, Assessing Who Deserves Your Money, and Why We Should Be Skeptical of Makeover Stories

By Kelly Diels / May 18, 2016 /

Want to know if someone is trying, by design, to construct an authoritarian dynamic to “mentally trigger” you to buy from them? Look for makeover stories.

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

By Kelly Diels / December 28, 2015 /

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.