Episode 245: #Pitching with Passion with Lisa Levenstein

Hey kids, we&#8217;re getting back to basics this week with a down-n-dirty episode on pitching, focused on opinion pages everywhere. We&#8217;re talking to Lisa Levenstein, an academic, historian and feminist (and the Director of the Women&#8217;s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina Greensboro) with two books under her belt:&#160;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780807871645">A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia</a>&#160;and&#160;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780465095285">They Didn&#8217;t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties</a>. Lisa took that expertise and those books and turned them into a growing career writing passionate freelance pieces of a kind that really appeal to editors&#8212;blending current issues with her special historic perspective on women&#8217;s issues.<br/><br/>We talked about everything from subject lines to finding your topic to using one piece as a steppingstone to break into another market, and it was fabulous. Enjoy!<br/><br/>Links from the pod<br/><br/><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/17/history-shows-that-we-can-solve-child-care-crisis-if-we-want/">Lisa&#8217;s piece on child care in WashPo.</a><br/><br/><a href="https://lisalevenstein.com/">Lisa herself</a><br/><br/>#AmReading<br/><br/>Lisa: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9781982111908">Big Friendship How We Keep Each Other Close</a> by Aminatou Sow&#160;&&#160;Ann Friedman<br/><br/>Sarina: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780316435574">What Happens In Paradise</a> by Elin Hilderbrand<br/><br/>KJ: <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/1183/9780062645142">The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters</a> by Balli Kaur Jaswal<br/><br/>Have you checked out our new sponsor? Thanks to The Great Courses for coming on board. Jess has been a fan for literally years, while Sarina and KJ are planning to catch up. Find out more at&#160;<a