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Apr 23, 2023 27 min

Peggy Orenstein

from Better Known Hosted by Ivan Wise

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. How (and why) to Shear Sheep https://www.iamcountryside.com/sheep/how-to-shear-a-sheep/ That you can tell the history of the world through color https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/the-colourful-history-behind-the-science-of-colour/ Women’s needlework is radically political https://medium.com/the-establishment/crafts-long-history-in-radical-protest-movements-8300f59a3e54 The two questions that undermine creativity https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210513-the-anxiety-that-limits-your-creative-genius Sing to your elders https://gospelmusichymnsing.com/operation-sing-again/ The Jewish homesteading movement of North Dakota https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188059776.pdf This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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