- Kill Your Rituals, Not Your Darlings Harry Connolly stops by Kate Elliott’s blog and talks about the evolution of his writing process. This really resonated for me because I will come up with a million reasons why I can’t write and 90% of the time they’re bullshit reasons.
- My happiness depends on you: giving voice to the unsung women of pop This is a neat project and looks at these songs from a perspective I hadn’t necessarily considered before.
- Newsflash: the Firefly guys were villains Say it ain’t so!
- Vanishing Act Whoa–Barbara Newhall Follett published her first book when she was 12 (to great acclaim) and then disappeared forever when she was 26 and her husband barely even bothered to look for her? Wow. I’m going to pretend she ran off to a feminist commune and lived the rest of her days in happiness (although I am 99% sure that her husband killed her as that’s the most likely answer here).
- Gender and the Hugo Awards This is a really good analysis by Aaron Pound. I think an analysis of race and the Hugo Awards would also be illuminating.
- Intersectional is more than a three-letter country Wow, yeah. The way things are here in the US is definitely not the way they are in the rest of the world. And it is helpful to remember that.
- How “Clean” Was Sold to America I feel like this article is interesting but sort of falls apart at the end–I’d have liked more a through line from the advertising of the past up until now with, perhaps, more of an emphasis on how women’s bodies, in particular, are pathologized. I am maybe asking too much from Gizmodo.
- This guy took my spot…so I put the snow back. SEEMS LEGIT.
- Survivors of 1980s AIDS crisis reveal what happened to them …yeah. This is a part of our history which is slowly being forgotten. It shouldn’t be.
- ‘Female Husbands’ In The 19th Century This is an excellent article. One thing I like about it is that it allows for a variety of identity and cautions the reader to not make assumptions.
- When Sex Won’t Work Moving first person account of dealing with vaginismus.
- Ronni Dolorosa on Cults and Abuse Dynamics in Fandom Ronni says a lot of really important things here and emphasized the necessity of remembering our history.
- I’m Brianna Wu, And I’m Risking My Life Standing Up To Gamergate “My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it’s a muscle that can do no more.”
- Hands Kari Sperring writes about the erasure of older women–except when their labor is needed.
- I wrote about Wadhwa and you’ll never guess what happened next! Amelia Greenhall has been on fire lately. I’m so glad she’s speaking.
And wow, this is..well, just watch it. I am not a huge fan of the song but this is gorgeous.
Sergei Polunin, “Take Me to Church” by Hozier, Directed by David LaChapelle from David LaChapelle Studio on Vimeo.
