What's got my attention this week #48

I've trawled the Shift-adjacent internet so you don't have to. Links, recs and whole bunch of things to get you through the weekend

The woman who introduced a million schoolgirls to the unexpected uses of goldfish, Lace author Shirley Conran died, aged 91, this week

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• Shirley Conran achieved a lot more than immortalising the phrase, “Which one of you bitches is my mother?” She was a campaigner and a pioneering journalist for starters. Here’s an obituary. And here’s an interview with her from 2012, when her smash hit “bonkbuster” Lace was reissued.
• ”At 74, my healthy but ‘tired of life’ mother announced she was planning an assisted suicide.” Hands down my piece of the week.
• What’s your origin story?
• What Stormy Daniels’ testimony tells us about sex and power.
• The lost generation of Gen X women with ADHD.
• Grown ass women just want to have fun.
• Brace yourself for “The Power No”.
• When obsession with skincare becomes dermorexia.