by Mindy Fried | Jun 10, 2016 | aging, connections with people, engaged aging, family, feminism, gender, health care, House Un-American Activities Committee, making choices, resiliency, theatre, Uncategorized, work and family balance | 0 Comments
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,... read more
by Mindy Fried | Jun 2, 2016 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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... read more
by Mindy Fried | May 20, 2016 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
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... read more
by Mindy Fried | Mar 31, 2016 | bra, feminism, gender, men's gaze, social history, women's bodies | 0 Comments
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... read more
by Mindy Fried | Mar 2, 2016 | Donald Trump, empowerment, feminist sociology, gender, Noam Chomsky, personal stories, public sociology | 2 Comments
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... read more
by Mindy Fried | Jan 18, 2016 | adventure, aging, first job out of college, lessons learned, looking back, mental health, psychiatric care, sense of purpose | 2 Comments
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... read more
by Mindy Fried | Dec 8, 2015 | Black Lives Matter, black power, community, dance, diversity, inequality, Jewish identity, protest, race, racism, resilience, Ta Nahisi Coates | 2 Comments
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... read more
by Mindy Fried | Sep 6, 2015 | aging, applied sociology, connections with people, engaged aging, gender, making choices, research, social science research, SWAN Study, women and health | 0 Comments
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.... read more
by Mindy Fried | Jul 8, 2015 | circus arts, connections with people, dance, diversity, festival, human connection, Jamaica Plain Porchfest, music, porchfest, spoken word, storytelling, theatre | 0 Comments
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... read more
by Mindy Fried | Jul 4, 2015 | aging, connections with people, depression, engaged aging, exhaustion, gender, health, insomnia, resiliency, sleep, women and health, work culture | 3 Comments
The men in my family were easy sleepers. It wasn’t uncommon to see my father and his six brothers lie down on the floor after a big meal and just nod out. Of course, that left my aunts to clean up, after they had also cooked the meal, and I bet they could have used a... read more
