Mindy's Muses
Creating Who Cares? – Behind the scenes in podcast land…
Hello Friends! MINDY IS GETTING UP TO SPEED! WHEW! In the past month, I’ve begun interviewing “guests” for my new podcast, Who Cares?. More on that in a moment... As a social scientist, I’ve probably interviewed 1,000 people in my lifetime, but NOT for an...
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Gayle Sulik interviews Mindy about her new book, Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir (forthcoming, summer, 2016)
In this interview, Gayle Sulik, Founder of the Breast Cancer Consortium and Co-Founder of Feminist Reflections, talks with Mindy about her new book, Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir (Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming, Summer, 2016). GAYLE: Mindy Fried,...
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Going Home to Mindy’s Muses: A heartfelt thanks to Feminist Reflections
Reprinted from Feminist Reflections: https://thesocietypages.org/feminist/2016/06/02/going-home-to-mindys-muses-a-heartfelt-thanks-to-feminist-reflections/ Mindy Fried on June 2, 2016 Beginning today, I will be “going home” to Mindy’s Muses, a blog that I created over...
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Sexuality Education: The battle rages on…
Sexuality education: the battle rages on… Mindy Fried on April 28, 2016 My friend’s daughter, Zoe, came home from school one day and told her dad about something that happened in school. She was in 8th grade at the time, and a trainer had just come to her class to...
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Ode to the bra, or early lessons on becoming a woman…
This post is reprinted from Feminist Reflections. My childhood friend, Gail, is six months younger than me. As adults, that age differential is totally meaningless, but as “pre-teens”, it apparently meant a lot. She reminds me that when my mother took me to the local...
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Chomsky, Trump, and Challenging Bigotry…
A few years ago, I was on the treadmill at the gym, trying to undo a day of sitting and staring at my computer, when a casual “gym friend” joined me on an adjacent treadmill. She noticed that I hadn’t been there much lately, and wanted to know why. I didn’t know her...
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Driving
In the car were three patients from Hutchings Psychiatric Center. I was the driver, and we were out for a ride. It was the dead of winter in Syracuse, New York, where 40 below zero was par for the course. It was a biting cold that proffered no forgiveness, where any...
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Inspired by Ta-Nehisi Coates…
Here at the Mecca[1], under pain of selection, we have made a home. As do black people on summer blocks marked with needles, vials and hopscotch squares. As do black people dancing at rent parties, as do black people at their family reunions where we are regarded as...
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The SWAN STUDY: Gender, Identity and Menopause
I sit opposite Lila [1], the 25-year-old research assistant, in a small room at a satellite office of Mass General Hospital. She is warm and professional, and we have already discovered that she went to college at the same university where I went to graduate school....
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Interview with Mindy Fried by UK Writer/Musician Melz Durston: “Jamaica Plain Porchfest Co-Producer Mindy Fried is ready to rock the neighborhood !”
Melz Durston: This weekend, Jamaica Plain will come alive with the sounds of local songwriters and the scents of citronella burning on the breeze. Inspired by Somerville’s annual community gathering, Mindy Fried and Marie Ghitman established JP Porchfest...
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