- There May Be an Ancient Earth Inside Earth I heard you liked Earth, so I put an Earth inside your Earth, yo.
- How Restaurant Pros Are Handling the Surge of Food Allergies
- ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Co-Creator Publicly Apologizes for Transphobic Card
- Reframing the Trigger Warnings Debate
- An uncommon household: The history of an early American same-sex marriage
- Mormons Expel Founder of Group Seeking Priesthood for Women
- Taxis who refuse wheelchairs are assholes who are breaking the law.
- Kaffir lime tainted with the sour taste of racism
- Field Museum to return Aboriginal Tasmanians’ skulls to descendants
- Some Thoughts on the Missing Stair Analogy
- How to Write 225 Words Per Minute With a Pen
- More on games/sexism/representation: a response to a response to a response
- Is Ann Leckie the Next Big Thing in Science Fiction? Overall, this is a great article except it opens with a really weird focus on Leckie’s reproductive status and body decoration choices–both things that wouldn’t even be a factor for a male writer. The profile’s author did, however, make a point of talking to and quoting women when summing up the last 18 months of being a woman in the science fiction field. Which I appreciate a whole lot. Cora Buhlert has more on how the article was framed.
- Geek of the Week: Science Fiction Author, Tom Purdom
- Nicola Griffith on the word Wife.
- Six Questions for Patricia Lockwood
- Some Questions For Brian Carderella and Wicked Good Ruby
- Perdition Days: On Experiencing Psychosis
- Pigments and poisons: the science of painting
- Shanley Kane @ Model View Culture
- I Sent All My Text Messages in Calligraphy for a Week
- Cracking open the Beehive : Visiting Montreal’s Rooftop Bee Colony to Talk about the End-of-the-World
- The Book Smugglers review Jon Wallace’s Barricade.
- Why I burned Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Books (tw: sexual assault)
- M.J. Locke has an important and harrowing series of posts. Trigger warnings for sexual assault, emotional abuse, simulated rape, misogyny.
- SFF community reeling after Marion Zimmer Bradley’s daughter accuses her of abuse Interesting how some of this was framed and some of the people they decided to quote.
Quercki says
June 27, 2014 at 10:34 amThe Mormon link is broken. Thanks.
Natalie Luhrs says
June 27, 2014 at 10:37 am@Quercki: Thanks–it’s fixed now.
Steve says
June 27, 2014 at 10:43 amThanks for these! Quite helpful for when I miss something.
Deirdre Saoirse Moen says
June 27, 2014 at 10:49 amThere are actually 2 stories in The Guardian today. Here’s the other: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/27/culture-heroes-lives-abuse-marion-zimmer-bradley
Tom Owen says
June 28, 2014 at 11:11 amThanks for the link about the lime leaves. I’ve been aware for a while that the K word was a slur in some cultures, but didn’t know there was an alternative name. When trying to give someone a recipe, it isn’t helpful if you use something like “Thai lime leaves”, as they won’t be able to find them, and this is one ingredient that really doesn’t have a substitute (that I’ve found). Hopefully “Makrut” will catch on (apparently my spell check doesn’t like it yet – hmph).