Unearth Women in the New Year
Gratitude, resolutions, and binging Bridgerton
In this newsletter: New Year Resolutions, your copy of issue 04, and binging Bridgerton
Happy New Year, dear readers! I won’t bother looking back at 2020 because we are all aware of just how crappy last year was. No, instead I want to look ahead with all the hope and optimism that January 1st promises. From the arrival of the COVID vaccine to the inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris (now, doesn’t THAT sound nice!) — I hope 2021 is a year where we all get to return to the things we love to do with a renewed sense of gratitude.
As someone put it to me recently: after the Spanish flu (which lasted from February 1918 to April 1920), we saw the glittery, champagne-soaked arrival of the Roaring Twenties. In a nutshell, I am hoping/dreaming/praying that 2021 will be the start of our own Jazz Age. A time where we can finally lift the black veil of pandemic, quarantine, and unemployment and step back into the light. For me, I’m hoping that Fall 2021 finds me in Paris, sipping a café au lait outside of Café de Flor, while staring lovingly into the eyes of my boyfriend. I am desperate to step off American soil for a bit and return to the places I love, whether it’s being a shameless cliché in Paris or visiting Colombia for the hundredth time.
Sure, I have other resolutions and hopes for this New Year. I hope to see society return to a sense of normalcy. I hope to eat inside a restaurant without fearing for my life. I hope to travel without having someone shove a Q-tip up my nose both before and after my departure. I hope to spend more time with friends and family and to spend less time on Zoom. After being laid off at the start of the pandemic, I hope to get a full-time editorial job again. I hope to workout more, even if the “gym” is still just my living room. I hope to wean myself off of sweatpants and wear REAL pants more often. But rather than start January 1st with a manic sense of to-do lists that need completing, I am beginning this year with a quiet sense of gratitude. Like my fat cat who is currently roasting his belly atop our radiator — I am simply happy to feel alive in this moment, and that’s a feeling I hope to carry throughout the New Year.
What are your hopes for 2021? Tell me below!
Our resolutions for the new year
Unearth Wonen’s next issue and opportunities to write for us
Release our fifth issue: As many of you know, we just printed our fourth issue after months of taking a hiatus to figure out a new printing solution. My goal for 2021 is to move forward with releasing a spanking new issue of Unearth Women magazine.
Introduce another feminist city guidebook: In 2020, we released a feminist city guidebook to NYC in an effort to bring our digital feminist city guides to life in a fun, tangible, and portable way. I had such a blast pulling that guidebook together and dream of offering additional guidebooks to other cities. My goal is to release a new feminist city guidebook this year!
Re-open freelance submissions: As some of you wrote in last year’s newsletter survey, you’re looking for opportunities to write for our site and magazine. I heard you loud and clear! In 2020, we closed our site to freelance submissions due to budget constraints. My goal is to reopen this in 2021, allowing writers to contribute to our website and magazine once again!
Find more ways to give back: In December, we donated a percentage of our paid newsletter subscriptions to the non-profit, Women for Women International. I really loved doing this and plan to look for more organizations to support in the New Year with proceeds from this newsletter. Want to suggest an organization we can support? E-mail me!
Food, food, food: This year, I became something of a home-cook, really finding love and passion in the art of constructing a beautiful meal. But beyond cooking, I’ve submerged myself into the culinary world in a way I never anticipated I would. Sure, I’ve always loved chef culture, but last year I became a contributor for Zagat and really dived off the deep end into food. In 2021, I want to bring this passion to Unearth Women. There are so many incredible women doing interesting things within the restaurant and culinary space! My goal is try and highlight them.
Are there things you want to see from Unearth Women in 2021? Tell me below!
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The only way to kick off the New Year
Bridgerton, Bridgerton, Bridgerton
After spending a literal year in pajamas due to quarantine, I’m not going to jump into jeans and swipe on red lipstick just yet. It’s a process! Also, my head is spinning from the champagne I drank last night while watching Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen swap “didn’t 2020 suck?” jokes in an empty Times Square. All this is to say, today is a perfect day for staying cozy, easing into 2021, and watching Bridgerton on Netflix.
A BIG shoutout to my mom who first advertised this show to me as a Gossip Girl meets Pride and Prejudice. Taking place in England during the Regency Era, Bridgerton follows the powerful Bridgerton family as their children come of age and attempt to find love. The four things I love about this show:
The costumes are beautiful and have me wondering how people in the Regency Era would have dressed during a pandemic. Chances are, they wouldn’t have been caught dead in sweatpants for 365 days.
The diversity of the cast is awesome and long overdue in period pieces.
So long as you have a pulse, watching the leading break-out star, Regé-Jean Page (The Duke of Hastings), is going to have you melting into the couch.
Oh, the parties! The wisteria-covered soirees of Bridgerton are just so beautiful. After a year where the highlight of my weekly calendar was grocery shopping, this show has me excited for re-entering society.
Gratitude, TRAVEL, move to the mountains with my cats, get my novel published.
Would love to hear what, where, why Colombia is worth 100 trips...