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Lena Dunham

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first: 2015-09-28
most recent: 2015-09-28
sittings or episodes: 1
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“And we will pay every writer and everyone who provides every illustrator. We're definitely not the model of like, do this for exposure. We're paying everybody, which is really important to us. And, you know, we're sort of operating in the way that we do on girls and the way we do as producers, which is when we hire people, we vet them heavily beforehand. And then we meet them. And if we love them, we hire them, and then we trust them to do their jobs.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's true. I mean, my definition of success has already happened, which is like women on Instagram reaching out to us, using our hashtag. You know, if I see two things where people have asked their mother after we put that out, that will be a success for me, communicating with people in that way.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What's interesting firstly, it's like our definition of success is probably very different with this project. It's probably very different than that of like BuzzFeeds, which.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we're not immediately updating you every minute of the day, so we're also trying to eliminate that sort of obsessive refresh, refresh, refresh, hunger.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I mean, let's talk about that in the broader sense. You're creating this newsletter with the tonality that you're trying to improve, I guess, around the internet, which kind of eliminates SNARC. You don't have comments, so you're trying to eliminate vile language and attitude.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A woman who literally gets on television in England and talks about like Grecian urns. It could not be less offensive. Like she's a funny, cool, academic talking about history. And she was getting some of the most vile comments you can imagine on the internet from disgusting teenage boys with nothing better to do than like troll people they see on public television. And she started writing back to them. And she made it her mission. And she went to lunch with one of them. He was like, I'm sorry. You remind me of my grandma and we have a bad relationship. Like she literally, and I don't have the energy to ever engage with a troll or welcome them into my life.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She reached out to a troll who was doing horrible things to her, and they were literally told her, like, I'm having a really hard time in my life. My wife left me. There's this woman, Mary Beard, and have you read about Mary Beard? She's a classicist in England, and there was an amazing article Rebecca Meade wrote about her for The New Yorker that I believe was called The Troll Slayer. And she...”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my god. You know, even someone we would love to talk to for Lenny. And if you're listening, Ellen, we are looking for you.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And hopefully a community, we have internet communities that allow us to speak. There's no shortage of ways to speak. And so hopefully through Twitter and through Instagram and through Tumblr, we can, many readers can connect to each other without having the actual comments box.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Okay. And I think a lot of dogs do it. It's disgusting. And it's disgusting. And he's particularly disgusting about it.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The stories are harrowing what happens to you when you actually speak out on those issues. And I think in terms of comments, you know, I'll often see, I'll put up an Instagram picture, like this happened a couple weeks ago. I put up an Instagram picture of me. I thought it was funny. I had to wear my boyfriend's underwear because my dog literally ate all my underpants.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was something that I was something I was not willing to comment on because there's very few things I don't want to talk about, but I was like, frankly, I'm not in a position to be like doxed or whatever. Like, I don't want to have my safety compromised. And it's one of the few things we're talking about.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Go ahead. You know, it's like the kind of teaser content we've done for Lenny, which was first the interview with Shennai Okomore Sandra Bland's best friend and mentor, and then we did our Lenny Summer Fiction issue. We're going to be releasing our Ask Your Mother feature. And each one kind of really speaks to an aspect of what we want to do. Like, for example, the fiction issue, we want to bring back the idea that a woman's magazine could include poetry in fiction and women could be interested in actually seeing art and literature by other women and it's not just.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not knowing anything, knowing Shad carry her sunglasses in her left hand. But so we did that. We're doing that story, which is an encouraging everyone to talk to their mothers and to talk to people. And that's our way of talking about what the world was like before Roe v. Wade and sort of reminding people”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And also, just to humanize things like politics. We're doing this. This project called Ask Your Mother, and it's about reproductive rights and abortions before Roe v. Wade. And I asked my mother, and we're encouraging everyone to ask their mothers or their grandmothers or their fathers or anyone. And I asked my mother and she told the story of an abortion she had before Roey Wade.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Plenty of those, and there are plenty of those that do it really well. Yeah. I don't have the skill or the desire to be a celebrity brand. I have the desire to give other people the chances that I've had to express myself. And I think that's something that Jenny and I really share in our production company. Even in girls is that we want to give other people the opportunities that we've had to talk in such an unfiltered way about what it feels like to be female right now.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To pink hair, but that isn't about me. And so something that's really important to us with the site is like it isn't, this is not a celebrity brand site. This is a site.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You hate to. I think really important to me was that it isn't just like, it's not, you know, like not that this is a problem, but it's not like I'm a cast member on a WB show and I'm like, I'm gonna let you in on my hair care secrets. Like the girls who came to my tour were engaged, passionate, political women with really interesting ideas about the world. I would say they averaged between 18 and 34 and they had a lot to say and a clear desire for community. And that's not about me. That may have gathered around me in this one specific instance because it was a place that they knew they could find like-minded people who wanted to talk about everything from, you know, sex to”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I talk about it all. Use the word, and sometimes when Jenny, because Jenny is one of those people, she's not pretending when she says she doesn't like to get her photo taken, like she genuinely hates it. And so sometimes when she's resistant, I'll be like, this is really good for our brand. And it started out as a joke, but now I can really get her to do things using the brand threat.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, I went on one of the stops in Chicago, and just the women, these young women, really diverse group, would line up to talk to her, but to ask her, like, where you got that sweatshirt, but also to ask her, how should I write and how brave can I be when I'm writing? You know, do you think fiction is better than non fiction? Every kind of angle of humanity they wanted to know from her. And it felt like, oh, well. This is a community waiting to have someone talk to them.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We'll get there. But another thing that was important to us was not to assume that all our readers were straight, not to assume that all our readers were white, not to assume that all our readers were cisgender. And so like... There would be just as likely to be a cute boiler as a cute girl”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my god, I was obsessed. They had Sassy in the high school library at Friend Seminary, so you had to find an excuse to be in there to read Sassy. But I remember my parents let me get a subscription to Jane because they were like, there's no stopping her. She's going to read this. And that feeling I had when it came, and I was going to read the travel column and I was going to read the make under and that kind of remarkable sensation of like boiler.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would not describe Lenny aspirational in any way. I would describe it as meeting you where you are and providing solutions for the place where you are. And the other thing is like Jenny said this thing which is so much content. So often you have to choose between sort of kindness and humor. Like, and can we create a space where that snark free but you're still laughing? Like that is where like I would say.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you think that so you're trying to deal with Lenny something different? Do you want to be uplifting, aspirational? I mean, you talked about Goop being, you know, I've been a huge Goop fan forever. And we love Gwy Actually, been so unbelievably helpful to us in this process. She has guided us like every step of the way. We send her emails constantly asking her questions. She has such good advice.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We talked about on girls, but I used to read Gawker and Jezebel in college and be like, I can't wait to get to New York, where my, back to New York, where my people will be to welcome me. And it's like, It's literally, if I read it, it's like going back to someone who beat a husband who beat me in the face. It just doesn't make any sense.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Want to read that? Oh shit, it's Cocker. I'm not opening it It's not like we think we're going to shut them down by not opening our links. It's just about not letting that. That energy flow.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're both doing interviews. We're both doing personal essays. We're both Know commissioning and editing other people's personal essays, we have recurring columns about health, beauty, I mean, those are. Has many of the benchmarks of a traditional women's publication, but were coming at it in a different direction. And I think until it's easy to say like, we're doing this differently, but until it's in your inbox and you sort of feel the energy of what we're trying to achieve, I think, I mean, I really do, I'm so impressed with our staff and impressed. We have Jess Gross, Jessica Gross, who's our editor-in-chief.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, something we wanted to say, but also a frustration with sort of the feminist internet as it stands and a frustration with the lack of safe. Jenny's used the word snark a lot to describe sort of what we wanted to avoid. Lack of sort of snark free intelligence spaces for women who didn't want to participate in feminist infighting but did want to always”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But we love the spaces that it's carved out, but we've also both been had pretty wounding experiences. And so it was amazing when we started to talk about what Lenny would be, we were so, it was like we were both talking, we both had this like fully formed thing inside us that we wanted that we had never talked about, but clearly, I mean, it didn't take us very long to figure out what the vision for it was because I'm very quick.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This was new frontier for him as well, and he really took to it and made it his mission to understand the landscape that we were going into. And we kind of made it our mission to really, I think it's weird because we both love the internet. Even though we text all day, we love communicating with each other on the internet. Which you do a lot.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In September 29. A staff in an office. I mean, it's been an amazing process. Ben really took to it, although he's been a tour manager, he's been a producer, he's been Janny's baby daddy, he's had a lot of cool jobs.”
2015-09-28 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lenny newsletter co-founders Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT