- Where Are We Heading? Knitting as Lifestyle Brand? and Knitting as a subculture. These are things I think about a lot, especially the class and conspicuous consumption aspects of knitting. As much as I love Ravelry, I am not convinced that it’s been a good thing for the knitting community as a whole.
- A Few Quick Notes About Blocking, Muting, Unfriending, and Banning
- 2 Women Moved to Write Stories Uncover a Surprisingly Personal One Wow, this is really neat and so incredibly random.
- The Last Day of Her Life This is wrenching story about Sandra Bem and the decision she made when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Really powerful.
- Why an iron fish can make you stronger As someone with this type of anemia, this is awesome and is probably more pleasant than some of the side effects from iron pills.
- Fail Better: How Nerd Insecurity Becomes Abuse
- On the Roar of Approval For Self-Defenestration
- I had a culture column at WIRED. And then I didn’t. Here’s what happened.
- SFF in Conversation: “On Diversity” Round Table with M Sereno, Aliette de Bodard, Zen Cho, Bogi Takács and JY Yang Read this read this read this. So great.
- Denver ComicCon Had a Women In Comics Panel With No Women So that’s a thing that happened.
- 5 Things That Have to Be In the New X-Files YES TO ALL OF THIS.
- Really awesome cover of an awesome song by Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
- Judith Butler addresses TERFs and the work of Sheila Jeffreys and Janice Raymond This is from last year, but it’s really good.
- On #YesAllWomen, One Year Later This is a hard but necessary read.
- A Plea for Culinary Modernism Fascinating look at and analysis of food culture.
- Surviving an Alcoholic This must be devastating to live through.
- Are Multiple Personalities Always a Disorder?
- The Baffling, Gruesome Plague That Is Causing Sea Stars to Tear Themselves to Pieces SADFACE, you guys, SADFACE.
- The Duggar Family Scandal: A reader Fred Clark of Slacktivist has put this together–this is mostly a collection of links going to people writing about Josh Duggar from the perspective of people who have a lot of knowledge about this particular subculture. I’ve been reading Vyckie Garrison and No Longer Quivering for years now and she’s a smart and incisive woman who has lived this particular life–it’s a shame that many of the mainstream articles I’ve read about this seem to be nearly entirely unaware of her work and are writing like they’re the first ones ever to say that this particular type of religious indoctrination and abuse is wrong.
I am not entirely sure what this video is, but I do know one thing: it has David Hasselhoff in it.
