Curiosities

✨ Disparate essays and curations on no particular schedule about whatever in the culture tickles me. Current rabbit holes include women and folk history, emotional geography and how to improve work culture. Sign up for the newsletter if you trust my pen and are happy to give me a carte blanche for things that make me go "huh?"

"The desert stretches as far as the Earth exists" (Arizona, 2020)

"The desert stretches as far as the Earth exists" (Arizona, 2020)

The eye goes and goes until, almost in Mexico, hills rise as if God pinched up the tablecloth.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Travel & free movement
Let's not mistake a corporate rebrand for a feminist moment

Let's not mistake a corporate rebrand for a feminist moment

Barbie is as feminist as a Lean In circle and a "You can have it all" essay in Cosmo.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Culture
The burnout crisis is a workload crisis

The burnout crisis is a workload crisis

Hire more, ask for less. That’s where we need to start.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Careers & work
Why your employer wants to cut your pay when you move

Why your employer wants to cut your pay when you move

Work is increasingly location-independent. Compensation still isn't.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Careers & work
America is living through our past. Could it also be our future?

America is living through our past. Could it also be our future?

From pre-war Paris to today's Washington D.C., an eerie echo

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
Geopolitics