Kate Ziegler

Kate Ziegler. Operations by day. @UJCreative with @jackujc. Rider of Bicycles. Runner of Many Miles. Seeker of Everlasting Lipstick. #LateNightBos #Femmechanics Union Jack Creative Instagram Twitter Snapchat: krziegs LinkedIn Pinterest Google+ Boston Globe feature Business Betties profile Want to get in touch? Ask me anything or shoot me an email at kate [at] unionjackcreative [dot] com! header photo credit: Suzanne Larocque, Business Betties

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#freekesha

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Cut the Catcalling: A PSA from the WBMA

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#NoSavesies

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Things I’ve Read This Week (in no particular order)

The End of Small Talk (NYT) Bill Cosby and His Enablers (Atlantic) Existential Riddles (New Yorker) Which transit system had the most breakdowns in the U.S.? That's right: The MBTA (BBJ) How frozen Minneapolis became a biking mecca (USA Today) Quick Hit: After Cologne, We Can’t Let The Bigots Steal Feminism (Feministing)

image credit: Brian Rea for NYT

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Things I’ve Read This Week (in no particular order)

Dirty Work: The Magic of Microbes with Sandor Katz (Vice) The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge (Atlantic) Male-dominant migrant wave threatens Europe's gender equality (RT) Our Favorite Banana May Be Doomed; Can New Varieties Replace It? (NPR) Thirst Trap: Girls and the Club Economy (AC Voice)

image credit: Sydney Kramer for Vice

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Things I’ve Ready Lately (in no particular order)

Have I got nudes for you: Emer O'Toole on the art of being naked (Guardian) Boston Bike Cafe Has Transportation Equity on the Menu (Next City) Yoga, but Affordable (Atlantic) The life, death and rebirth of "New York's Coffee Cup" Anthora (Hopes&Fears) The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare (NYT)

Bonus points for this long-form Facebook note on Oprah and bodily epiphanies.

image credit: Camilla Cannon, via Emer O’Toole for the Guardian

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Things I’ve Ready Lately (in no particular order)

An Unbelievable Story of Rape (The Marshall Project, big content warning especially for survivors of sexual assault and anyone whose story has been doubted) When your spouse dies (WaPo) Everything You Know About Martin Shkreli Is Wrong—or Is It? (Vanity Fair) The Wrong Side of 'the Right Side of History' (Atlantic) The Reproductive Rights Rollback of 2015 (NYT)

image credit: Wesley Allsbrook for The Marshall Project

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Things I’ve Read This Week (in no particular order)

When the Government Tells Poor People How to Live (Atlantic) Urban jungle: wooden high-rises change city skylines as builders ditch concrete (Guardian) Crossing the Finish Line 25 Pounds Lighter (NYT) Unfollow: How a prized daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church came to question its beliefs. (New Yorker)

image credit: The Atlantic

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Things I’ve Read Lately (in no particular order)

11 Talented Women to Know (W Magazine) Warming up to “Baby It’s Cold Outside”: What my mother taught me about the guy who wrote the “date-rape” Christmas song (Salon) The Richest Photographer in the World (Priceonomics) Priced Out: Boston’s Real Estate Boom And What We Lose If Only The Rich Can Buy In (Cognoscenti) Stop Throwing Terrible Holiday Parties (NYMag)

image credit: Peter Ash Lee for W Magazine

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It's been (almost) 10 years, and at the very least our #selfie skills and hair are better. Started on the Fung Wah now we're here. #bae #decade #ujcreative (at Metro North)

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Things I’ve Read Lately (in no particular order)

The Secrets in Greenland’s Ice Sheet (NYT Magazine) Why Being Solo and Poly Has Made Me a Happiness Evangelist (Toast) Let Us Now Retire The Whiskey Woman (PUNCH) President Obama and Bill Simmons: The GQ Interview (GQ)

image credit: Olaf Otto Becker for NYT

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“I want to be aware of every day that I’m alive.”

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Things I’ve Read Lately (in no particular order)

The New Intolerance of Student Activism (Atlantic) Why Bike Commuters Should Be Using Strava (Bicycling) From dissident to decorative: why street art sold out and gentrified our cities (Conversation) The end of walking (aeon) Boston Millennials Care about Public Transit, Not Parking (Boston Magazine)

image credit: garryknight, via Flickr

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Things I’ve Read Lately (in no particular order)

The science behind why Drake’s dancing fits with any music (TNW) Why L.L. Bean's Boots Keep Selling Out (Atlantic) Where Does Your Facebook Profile Go When You Die? (Vice) The Unsavory Side of Airbnb (Prospect) Long-Acting Contraception Makes Teen Pregnancy Rates Plummet. So Why Are Some Women Still Skeptical? (The Nation) Black poverty differs from white poverty (WP)

image credit: TNW News

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Hey #bike buds, if you're riding in this weather, remember: wet leaves are super slippery, puddles hide potholes, and wear your lights and brights! #betterbybike #bikeboston #bikelife #womenbike #fixiegirl #upbeforethesun #femmechanics (at Southwest Corridor Park)

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Things I’ve Read Lately (in no particular order)

Why '80s Babies Are Different Than Other Millennials (PopSugar) The Lonely Death of George Bell (NYT) Road Warrior (New Yorker) In Its Biggest Undertaking to Date, ICA Debuts ‘Black Mountain College’ Exhibition (Boston Magazine) The Tao of the Listicle (Atlantic)

image credit: PopSugar

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Things I’ve Ready Lately (in no particular order)

Boston’s triple-deckers in demand, families getting pushed out (Boston Globe) As dementia symptoms increase, doctor living with Alzheimer's knows exactly what his future holds (Tampa Bay Times) City Councilor Matt O’Malley Mistaken For Martin O’Malley During CNN Debate (Boston Magazine) I Want To Be A Bad Bitch On A Motorcycle (Femsplain) Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself (Wired)

image credit: Wendy Maeda, Boston Globe