#Fly with Me

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Fly The Friendly Skies! ✈️✈️✈️

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Rani 🫧🕊️

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… And baby, I’m trying to go to Neptune with the Love I wanna make.

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On the Brink of Dreamscape and Daybreak

In a wrinkle in time,

I found myself once again in Neverland.

Like dream catchers that chime,

the breeze whistled lullabies of lost youth in Slumberland.

A foolish kid, enamored;

With one playful grin, my senses scattered.

Young love, I reckon, is to leap blindly like bright-eyed puppies.

Despite my fright, I'd take flight with you over endless prairies.

Elder and wiser, I am to fight shy of hurt;

But in your familiarity, I unstitched my shadow.

Deluded in a child's play of pretend, I twirl wearing my best dress shirt.

Lead with your sparkle in the dark; trust I'll always follow.

Catching stars and chasing fireflies,

Let all of our make-believes come alive.

Take me by surprise ㅡ stay longer, "let's hide together from the sunrise."

Where our crossworlds collide, with you, I'll always arrive.

ㅡ M.C.

Songs that inspired "On the Brink of Dreamscape and Daybreak":

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Hey you! Yes you. Are you looking for a painfully sweet fucking awesome WLW fake-dating tragicomic happy-ending romance novel?? If so, read Fly With Me.

Actually, I don't care if you're not looking for a WLW romance novel - read Fly With Me anyway. I cleared it in two days it is so good I literally couldn't put it down.

Get it from Barnes and Noble, your local library, or wherever! Just get it. What are you doing still reading this go

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So People Still Fly Commercial? 🛩️🛩️🛩️

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"Come Fly with Me..." ✈

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🌙𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰🌙

Fly With Me by Andie Burke

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Olive Murphy is a flying-phobic ER nurse who is trying to get through her first ever flight, and when another passenger starts having a medical emergency she quickly jumps in to help. While Olive and her new patient make it through the flight unscathed, her heroic save goes viral bringing media attention and the chance to meet the pilot Stella Soriano. There’s instant chemistry, but nothing takes off. But with the national spotlight on them, Stella asks Olive to fake date hoping to advance her career. Can Olive and Stella remember that their relationship isn’t real, or will they give in and let their feelings fly?

Why did I love this book so much?! Probably because I am/was a healthcare worker and will relate to Olive on a spiritual level💜 Besides that…both Olive and Stella were so well written. They each were struggling with different yet similar things (mental health, grief, relationships, sexuality, etc!) and that’s what bonded them and also brought them closer (most of the time lol). This story was so genuine, and tragic, but sweet and I loved it! Everyone go read now!

Read if you love:

����🏻‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏻Sapphic

🏥ER nurse & 🛩️Pilot

🌈LGBTQ+ rep

🎭Fake dating

🧠Mental health rep

CW/TW:

•Grief

•Death

•Taking care of sick family member

•Anxiety/Depression

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Rani🫧 & Bess🎨

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Read of Fly With Me by Andie Burke (2023) (367pgs)

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Rating: 3/5

Book Blurb: A sparkling and steamy Sapphic romance, Fly with Me by Andie Burke is filled with sharp banter and that sweet, swooping feeling of finding “the one” when and where you least expect it.

A one-way ticket to love or a bumpy ride ahead?

Flying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever take-off when the pilot announces an in-flight medical emergency. Olive leaps into action and saves a life, but ends up getting stuck in the airport hours away from the marathon she's running in honor of her brother. Luckily for her, Stella Soriano, the stunning type A copilot, offers to give her a ride.

After the two spend a magical day together, Stella makes a surprising request: Will Olive be her fake girlfriend?

A video of Olive saving a life has gone viral and started generating big sales for Stella's airline. Stella sees their union as the perfect opportunity to get to the boys' club executives at her company who keep overlooking her for a long-deserved promotion. Realizing this arrangement could help her too, Olive dives into memorizing Stella’s comically comprehensive three-ring-binder guide to fake dating. As the two grow closer, what’s supposed to be a ruse feels more and more real. Could this be the romantic ride of their lives, or an epic crash and burn?

Review:

A flying-phobic ER nurse becomes famous when she saves an individual all the while fake dating her secret crush, the gorgeous copilot. Olive Murphy has a fear of flying but she needs to get to the marathon to fulfill her brother's wishes as he is in a coma. Olive is an ER nurse and when a passenger on the plan needs saving, she goes into action, what she doesn't expect is that she becomes viral for saving the passenger. Stella Soriano is the stunning copilot who has only one goal: get the promotion to become captain. Stella has the hours, the experience, and needs this promotion, she wants to show her dad that she's made it while she can because his alzheimer's is getting worse and worse. When Stella and Olive meet at the airport and Olive's flight gets cancelled after she saves the man, Stella offers to drive her to her marathon. What began as a friendly road trip soon turns into something else as Stella then asks Olive to become her fake girlfriend to help boost her PR at her company. Olive think's this is the perfect opportunity to woo Stella and to potentially make this fake relationship real. Yet Stella is clear about one thing: she doesn't do relationships because she's afraid of hurting her partners since she has a history of doing so and that this entire relationship is just for show. Yet Olive and Stella continue to cross the line between platonic and a real relationship and things are going to get messy, on top of the fact that Olive's manipulative ex wants her back now that Olive is famous. Throw in tons of family drama, confusing feelings, and job politics, and this is going to be a messy ride. This was a pretty cute sapphic rom com between an ER nurse with anxiety and a co-pilot with her own issues. Olive's family was terrible and the third act breakup felt kind of pushed too far back and the resolution to it didn't feel that well deserved. Overall it's cute but i kind of wish there was more going on. If you enjoy fake dating then definitely give this one a go!~

*Thanks Netgalley and St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

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‘A Revolution Waiting To Happen’: The Surprising Alliance Between Stewardesses and Gloria Steinem

When Flight Attendants and the Most Famous Feminist of Her Time Joined Forces

— February 13, 2024 | Kirstin Butler

Art By Tania Castro-Daunais. Source Images From Wikimedia, NYU Tamiment Library, Kathleen Heenan.

When the first widely-circulated issue of the pioneering feminist magazine, Ms., hit newsstands in July 1972, it contained a small advertisement toward the back that most readers likely disregarded. That unobtrusive listing contained big news for its intended audience: flight attendants, or stewardesses, as they were then known. The ad announced an upcoming meeting to discuss forming a group focused on gaining workplace equality and respect for their profession. Stewardesses for Women’s Rights was born later that year.

SFWR’s founders were both former Eastern Airlines flight attendants. Jan Fulsom had quit her job after a drunk passenger tore her skirt off mid-flight, and the pilot, her immediate supervisor, laughed. Sandra Jarrell was fired by Eastern for being what its requirements considered overweight. (Nearly all airlines at the time required their flight attendants be weighed regularly; attendants who exceeded a carrier’s arbitrarily set limit, were put on probation or fired altogether.) Jarrell and Fulsom had had enough of airlines’ predatory and demeaning workplace culture, and knew other flight attendants felt the same.

At that first SFWR meeting in a church basement in Greenwich Village, women shared experiences and began to formulate goals and strategy. The flight attendants wanted to improve their working conditions, advocate for health and safety measures for passengers and crew, and, most vehemently, counter chauvinistic public perception of stewardesses.

SFWR found common cause in a surprising, high-profile ally. Ms. founder Gloria Steinem had come to know flight attendants while shuttling back and forth between the magazine’s headquarters in New York and the National Women’s Political Caucus in Washington, D.C. “I was such a frequent-flying oddity among the mostly male passengers going to our nation’s capital, but we seemed to share a sense of being outsiders,” Steinem would later write in her 2015 memoir, My Life on the Road. She began to spend time in airplane galleys on longer trips, in what became “a lifetime of finding girlfriends in the sky.” Steinem was at SFWR’s inaugural meeting, providing guidance and encouragement. “I’d been flying so much and listening to so many [flight attendants],” she later recalled, “that I had to resist saying ‘we’ when I talked about job problems.”

Gloria Steinem at a women's conference held at the LBJ Presidential Library on November 9, 1975. Frank Wolfe, LBJ Library.

The alliance disconcerted some activists, who took at face value the derogatory portrayal of flight attendants in popular culture. For years, airline marketing had dealt in a range of fictional stewardess archetypes, from wife-in-training to sexpot. “Other feminists find it a little hard to take flight attendants seriously because of their image,” historian Kathleen Barry told American Experience. “Members of Stewardesses for Women’s Rights recalled being hissed at at a feminist convention they attended. They get a mixed response from feminists generally. So when somebody like Gloria Steinem supports what they’re doing, that's hugely important.”

SFWR’s members moved quickly after that first meeting, putting together a press conference in December 1972. As reporters took notes, they called out ad campaigns with blatantly suggestive taglines—such as “She’ll Serve You - All the Way” and National Airlines’ high-profile “Fly Me” campaign —as well as taking on the broader misrepresentation of flight attendants in books and films like How to Make a Good Airline Stewardess and “Swinging Stewardesses.” (The former contained illustrations of dozens of flight attendants both in uniform and completely naked.) Such “annoying and degrading” treatment, SFWR told the assembled media, amounted to “making a dollar by slandering us.”

Word spread further after a feature piece on SFWR appeared in the January 1973 issue of Ms. The group held the first of several national conferences in March in New York City. Steinem spoke; joined by prominent feminist attorney Betty Southard Murphy, who also provided SFWR with pro bono legal counsel; Margaret Sloan-Hunter, founder of the National Black Feminist Organization; and Kathie Sarachild, a radical feminist activist. SFWR founder Sandra Jarrell gave the keynote speech, addressing the fraught topic of unions, none of whose officers were in attendance. While many stewardesses were members, union leadership was nearly always male and older, and often unsympathetic to the particular issues around flight attendants’ working conditions. “Unfortunately,” Jarrell noted, “unions do not have the reputation of representing the interests of women at the bargaining table.”

Conference attendees were presented with the new SFWR logo, the gender symbol for female with wings extending out to the right, mimicking the wing pins that flight attendants received from their airlines. The new design dominated the first page of the inaugural issue of SFWR’s monthly newsletter, which talked about finding the best way to “fight sexism in the skies.” (Proving Jarrell’s point about the lack of union support, officials of the Transport Workers Union prohibited SFWR from distributing the newsletter via flight attendants’ airport mailboxes.)

Over the next several years SFWR grew to include 13 local chapters, and refined its methods for addressing flight attendants’ work and public image. At an individual level, members helped file discrimination complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Civil Aeronautics Board, as well as lawsuits against airlines. SFWR also took on another topic with far-reaching impact, focusing on a topic germane both to their profession and the greater public: hazardous cargo. Partnering with Ralph Nader’s Aviation Consumer Action Project, the group created a coalition called STOP, for “Safe Transportation of People.” SFWR arranged for 100 flight attendants to wear special radiation badges in-flight for two months to demonstrate that they—and passengers—were being exposed to improperly packaged, radioactive cargo. The group also protested at airports across the country. Their pressure yielded results: In 1975, the Federal Aviation Administration ruled that no radioactive cargo besides properly packaged radioactive pharmaceuticals could be carried on U.S. flights.

An SFWR membership sign-up form. NYU Tamiment Library.

But SFWR’s predominant concern remained the fight for respect. In 1974, National Airlines announced it intended to take the “Fly Me” campaign to another level, with new marketing that featured swimsuit-clad flight attendants alongside the slogan, “I’m going to fly you like you’ve never been flown before.” SFWR mobilized, this time holding protests and partnering with the National Organization for Women to file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission and the National Association of Broadcasters. SFWR members wore and distributed buttons and bumper stickers bearing the slogans “Don’t Fly Me - Fly Yourself” and “National, your fly is open.” Once again, the group’s media savvy garnered coverage in outlets across the country.

SFWR also created a “counter-ad” aimed to appeal, like its successful STOP campaign, to the general public’s sense of safety. An actor delivered her lines for the commercial from an airplane seat: “I’m a highly trained professional with a serious job to do. Should an emergency situation arise, I urgently need the respect, confidence and cooperation of all my passengers in order to minimize danger and accomplish what must be done.” SFWR organized additional protests, letter-writing campaigns, and boycotts against the most egregious airline marketing.

By 1977, though, the organization had stagnated. Its funding dwindled, and members had conflicting ideas about where to place the group’s focus. Given the inherent flux in potential members’ schedules and their affiliations with different airlines, recruitment and cohesion had always been a challenge; SFWR never represented more than three percent of the flight attendant community in its five-year existence. But the group had articulated a feminist voice for the profession that was influential beyond its size.

And as SFWR drifted apart, a new phenomenon emerged: Many of its former members ran for leadership positions in airline and industry unions. It was there, they had come to realize, that flight attendants were going to effect longer-lasting, material change—from the inside. Or as Gloria Steinem remarked 40 years later, “stewardesses were a revolution waiting to happen.”

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Title: Fly with Me

Author: Andie Burke

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2023

Genres: fiction, romance, LGBT+, contemporary

Blurb: Flying-phobic ER nurse Olive Murphy is still gripping the armrest from her first-ever takeoff when the pilot announces an in-flight medical emergency. Olive leaps into action and saves a life, but ends up getting stuck in the airport hours away from the marathon she's running in honour of her brother. Luckily for her, Stella Soriano, the stunning type A copilot, offers to give her a ride. After the two spend a magical day together, Stella makes a surprising request: will Olive be her fake girlfriend? A video of Olive saving a life has gone viral and started generating big sales for Stella's airline. Stella sees their union as the perfect opportunity to get to the boys' club executives at her company who keep overlooking her for a long-deserved promotion. Realising this arrangement could help her too, Olive dives into memorising Stella's comically comprehensive three-ring binder guide to fake dating. As the two grow closer, what's supposed to be a ruse feels more and more real. Could this be the romantic ride of their lives, or an epic crash and burn?