This is the second links post for the week–there was one yesterday which was devoted to Michael Brown and Ferguson, MO.
- Why Does Craft Beer Suddenly Seem to Have a Problem With Women?
- Time to grow up, breweries
- Craft Beverage People: Do Better.
- Multiple Lovers, Without Jealousy
- Moving the Goalpost on Polyamorous Success
- If you’re a straight cisgender woman writing m/m romance, sorry, you are not striking a blow for equality
- Real marketing, fake slavery, and my last nerve
- Star Trek Writer’s Defense of Diversity in Sci-Fi Is Damn Near Perfect
- Game of Thrones author: I won’t include gay characters in novels ‘for the sake of it’ Yeah but all those super realistic dragons and rapes are totally cool, amirite? Fuck you, GRRM.
- Intellectual property and wills Wise post about an important issue from Marissa Lingen. Who knows what she’s talking about here: listen.
- Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement
- Dear Twitter by Julie Pagano
- Tweeting From Inside The Bell Jar
- Twitter vows to “improve our policies” after Robin Williams’ daughter is bullied off the network Oh. So it had to be a high profile white woman who was openly grieving the loss of her father to get Twitter off their ass to do something about what lower profile women and other marginalized people have to deal with every day on the service. Good to know. (I hope it is obvious that I have absolutely nothing against Zelda Williams here; I fully empathize with her on the loss of her father.)
- We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won’t Do Anything About It
- Jezebel’s Harassment Problem Needs More than Comment Moderation
- “Break. Them.”: The weaponization of emotion In which Sarah Wanenchak draws a bright line between “boys will be boys” and “ignore the trolls”.
- Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves
- Robin Williams and Michael Brown: Why do we mourn one and not the other?
- After a Long Illness This is probably the best piece I’ve read about Robin Williams’s death.
- Why we fight for tech diversity: the stakes are only everything
- Mall cop ignores racist harassing Seattle protesters and pepper sprays black bystander instead
- Florida man accused of killing his roommate asked Siri where to hide the body, court hears
- Get Pissed: You’re Still Paying More Than Men Do for Deodorant
- Chlorine: From toxic chemical to household cleaner Chemicals! They’re awesome and scary at the same time!
- Sorry About The Stuff I Did While Figuring Out This Trans Thing
- Vicky Beeching, star of the Christian rock scene: ‘I’m gay. God loves me just the way I am’
- Why I Wish Romance Had a Readercon Everyone needs a Readercon.
- Civilians in Abandoned McDonald’s Seize Control of Wandering Space Satellite
- How We Imprison the Poor For Crimes That Haven’t Happened Yet
- Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Farmers
- You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?
- Money in the Bank
- Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Investing in Women
- The NSA Seems to Have a Leaker Problem
- Cowardly DE school board cancels entire summer reading list over LGBT-inflected YA novel Go go go (s)Lower Delaware! #headdesk
- Thinking About the Reading at Poetry Readings
- The Formula For An Episode Of Murder, She Wrote Do I care that there is a formula? NO I DO NOT. It is still the BEST.
The Atlantic article on multiple lovers was interesting but I had to stop reading when it started quoting the evolutionary psychologist hooey.
Sorry about the stuff… article was so good.
Poetry: yeah, what IS that when poets read their own work in a monotone? Margaret Atwood, I’m looking at you. Was that fashionable where you went to college or something?
Glad the U.S. Justice Department is warning against so-called evidence-based *predictive* sentencing.
Love, love, love your artistic links. The paper crafts are unbelievable!!