Looks like it's streamable online with a $5/mo membership. Special Q&A with the director tonight (4/24) https://metrograph.com/live-screenings/sisters-with-transist...
Unfortunately, only in the U.S.
Sisters with Transistors
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#12Looks like it's streamable online with a $5/mo membership. Special Q&A with the director tonight (4/24) https://metrograph.com/live-screenings/sisters-with-transist...
It seems like this website is trying to convert to local timezone in browser, the ICS places it at 8pm on 4/24 New York time:
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#14I was so thrilled when I discovered Laurie Spiegel and wondered why she wasn't more famous. I feel like "The Expanding Universe" should be in the collection of everyone with even a casual interest in electronic music. Her website is also a trove of fascinating notes about early electronic music tech. Looking forward to finding about some of the other artists mentioned here.
+1 for The Expanding Universe! East River Dawn from that album is one of my favorite pieces of music. Something about it is just so calming and serene for me.
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#15I wish we could appreciate women's talents without feeling forced to prefix the whole thing with a blob about restoring them to their righteous place on the pantheon of whatever.
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#16Too bad the article does not mention Constance Demby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ire8pSPvX1o
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#17I wish we could appreciate women's talents without feeling forced to prefix the whole thing with a blob about restoring them to their righteous place on the pantheon of whatever.
Moralized language makes it significantly more difficult to criticize, as doing so makes you immoral by implication, so any actual argument can be slapped down and ignored.
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#18I wish we could appreciate women's talents without feeling forced to prefix the whole thing with a blob about restoring them to their righteous place on the pantheon of whatever.
Unless you can go back in time and put them in the pantheon back then, I don't see much of an alternative.
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#19Slightly off-topic; I can't read this article without scrambling my brain. Whatever review is hidden inside here is behind a wall of obscure references that only the niche target audience can understand, and as I try to navigate around all of these, I'm able to find a couple sentences which actually convey what's going on in the documentary and what the author thinks about it. Please don't write like this, you're onl…
This is a mistake I think of as "universalizing my preferences". Yes, it doesn't work for you. So one of two things is true: 1) a professional writer and a popular, long-running publication's professional editors have totally failed to do their jobs, or b) you're not the target audience. In this case, it's definitely the latter. This is writing meant to be read linearly from beginning to end. The purpose of the early…
"Long read" or "long form" is already a term for these articles, and I usually can't stand them in print either.
Fine, some people like when their information is presented in the form of literature. I don't mind it myself once in a while, but usually I find myself wishing they'd get to the point, and I feel no wiser for having taken so long when (and if) they do ever get there.
If nothing else, I really wish -- if only for the purpose of accessibility and inclusion!! -- that these longform articles would also include an abstract or summary stating the main points.
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#20I wish we could appreciate women's talents without feeling forced to prefix the whole thing with a blob about restoring them to their righteous place on the pantheon of whatever.
Unless you can go back in time and put them in the pantheon back then, I don't see much of an alternative.
Violence begets violence, and likewise, discrimination begets reverse discrimination. Someone must step up and end the cycle.