psa to diouana women who aren't afraid to be ambitious
and aren't above being misunderstood
when your girlfriend is the biggest gangster in music
would you consider yourself a woman who gets what she wants? institutionally, speaking.
i only ask because i find that ambition has an interesting way of making everything into an institution. and i find that women who get what they want are women who are smooth operators of any institution. marital, or otherwise.
some, through their own capricorn machinations, have even made themselves into institutions.
taylor swift comes to mind. i say that because her presence alone during games brought the kansas city chiefs $331.5 million in advertising revenue. readers should remember that in the same year that central bankers and the very omnipotent jamie dimon shared their concerns of a soft landing in the us1, taylor’s eras tour generated $5 billion in consumer spending.
an institution, indeed.
the montecito monarch and the east european empress
there are those who strive to be institutions. and there are those who strive to be in institutions. in my latest essay, i dissected two women where one fails at every attempt to become an institution and the other’s success is boiled down to marrying into an institution.
what stops the first in her endeavors is a chronic fear of her own shadow. and perhaps a miscalculation of the chess board she thought she was playing on. although often mischaracterized, the second couldn’t care less. which makes her a fascinating character study. and much more successful in her endeavors than the first woman.
i won’t spoil everything, so if you haven’t, read my latest essay, who’s afraid of ambitious women?.
remember, we’re meeting in february
for us non-royals and non-presidential wives, the institution we’re tasked to conquer is often corporate in nature. if not institutionally, then culturally.
and having a fluency in navigating hierarchal pathways is a cheat code in the game of life. anywhere, but especially in the west.2
so, this saturday, on the 1st of febraury, i’m excited to dive deeper into what this means through a framework i call strategic womanhood.
but i really shouldn’t take all the credit: during (my first ever!) livestream last night, some diouana women joined me and our conversation inspired the emergence of this analytical lens. and it’s through this lens that we will discuss the salon’s syllabus:
the importance of institutional power as a woman
how to be taken seriously as a woman (aka, amal clooney is who meghan marble thinks she is)
indifference as a political strategy
humility as a political strategy
mythmaking as political strategy
the femme fatale effect in institutional settings (aka, can one avoid the monica bellucci effect?)
women who are (un)believable (aka, lana del rey, georgina chapman, and blake lively walk into a bar)
the black lauren sanchez question
suggested readings
final details before you go
i hope you’ll join the second diouana woman salon at 12p eastern this saturday, february 1st.
one of these days, i’m sure we’ll do one in person. until then, join us with the link below:
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from substack (live), with love…
as i mentioned, i hosted my first livestream yesterday and it was so much fun to spend time with the diouana women who joined. i can’t tell you enough how full my heart is. thank you for spending time with me <3 we should do it again. if for nothing else, then for me to get to know more of what you’re actually interesting in discussing and going deeper into.
i was thinking we could do tuesday and thursday afternoons? is that too much? let me knooooow.
sweet dreams,
a diouana woman
meaning the us economy would go into a recession, not a recovery from the hyperinflation that resulted both from lingering supply-side shocks of the covid era and the helicopter money of the pandemic times.
speaking of, professor niall ferguson has an excellent book on the history of power structures in the west titled the square and the tower.