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Better Known

Peggy Orenstein

Apr 23, 2023
27:48

Peggy Orenstein discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Peggy Orenstein is the author of the national bestseller Unraveling: What I Learned While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater. Her other books include the New York Times bestsellers Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Waiting for Daisy and the classic Schoolgirls.

  1. How (and why) to Shear Sheep https://www.iamcountryside.com/sheep/how-to-shear-a-sheep/

  2. That you can tell the history of the world through color https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/the-colourful-history-behind-the-science-of-colour/

  3. Women’s needlework is radically political https://medium.com/the-establishment/crafts-long-history-in-radical-protest-movements-8300f59a3e54

  4. The two questions that undermine creativity https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210513-the-anxiety-that-limits-your-creative-genius

  5. Sing to your elders https://gospelmusichymnsing.com/operation-sing-again/

  6. The Jewish homesteading movement of North Dakota https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188059776.pdf


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