Wow! Thanks for sharing. [I will add that seeing it in a bookshop in Melbourne was a giant thrill for me.]

It is not, sorry, and I don’t know of plans to release it in paperback in the US.

Although if you DO happen to be in or near Vancouver, Canada, I'll be speaking at CABBAGE AND THE CITY this Sunday, November 23rd, and there are a few spots left -- come and make civic conversation and cabbage rolls! www.sfu.ca/sca/events--...

Please bear in mind that I'll be posting your bookplate from Vancouver, Canada -- I encourage you to get in touch sooner rather that later so it has plenty of time to make the trip to you! [3/3]

I'll cover the postage from Canada, but in exchange I'll ask you to make a charitable donation, in any amount, to a secular organization that serves community members in need (food bank, shelter, mutual aid, bail fund, etc.). [2/3]

I do — definitely ubiquitous in offices and labs — but I think of them as being that enameled slightly-metallic grey (not the industrial grey-green).

Lewis Carroll covered this in THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, you might recall — cinnamon rolls tomorrow means no cinnamon rolls today… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_tom...

One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.

And this is closer to the teal that I love in mid-century government office buildings. [almost all the furniture in my flat is black or grey, you’ve now seen the exceptions].

IKEA very briefly did this metal cabinet in mid-century industrial green and I managed to snag one — it now lives in my workroom.

But yes, there’s a very specific slightly green-y blue (teal) that I associate with those window panels of 1950s-1970s Modernist office buildings, and a greyish light green that I associate with, like, desk lamps and file cabinets in mid-century engineering offices.

Seconding ‘seafoam’ for that light green with a bit of blue, that you often saw (along with coral pink) in places like Florida and Palm Springs. ‘Mint’, to me, just pale green (like mint chocolate chip ice cream).

Yes, that too — reflective practice is definitely one of the ways that we change!

Exactly. I understand the OP’s point, but it frames ‘bravery’ as innate and unchanging — brave then, brave now. But we change, and also how we respond to a situation is in constant dialogue with the circumstances, our own but also those *we create for each other*. It’s why courage is contagious.

Were you at Tufts? It was shortly after MIT made a concerted effort to address structural discrimination against female faculty — I recall how frustrated my colleagues at MIT were that the 800lb gorilla that is Harvard wasn’t following suit, but I have to give Harvard faculty credit for this.

[I do not otherwise follow Summers’ career in any shape or form, but I had recently finished my postdoc at MIT, lived in Cambridge, and was a newly minted engineering prof at a brand-new college with an institutional commitment to gender equity, so you can bet I was following this.]