- In Which Asking for Citations & Offering Critique Makes Me the PC Police (with tweets)
- Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater
- Charitable fundraising: wise as serpents, innocent as doves
- Tiny Letters to the Web We Miss
- No-one Is Coming To Take Away Your Shitty Toys
- An Open Letter to the Tiny White Man the Republican Party Has Sent to Live in My Underpants.
- Breaking The Low Mood Cycle
- Once More, With Feeling: A Belated Response
- Movements: Translations, the Mother Tongue, and Acts of Resistance (Part 1)
- Burned Out On Blogging?
- The Gary Stu, or Why I’m Not Subscribing to The Mary Sue Anymore
- What Happened to The Mary Sue?
- An open letter to all the other writers who, like me, panic at midnight about being failures
- Art supplies, Provence and Paris. Experiencing intense jealousy.
- The Risk in Speaking Up This is so true. So, so true.
- Becoming Jessica Fletcher: Celebrating Murder, She Wrote If you follow me on Twitter, you know I am kind of obsessed with this show.
- How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet
- #TwitterPanic
- The Ping-Pong Theory of Tech-World Sexism
- Mom and daughter on reading together. I love this, so much.
- Police Bees: How Honey Bees Can Help Tackle Illegal Drug Cultivation
- More Than the Message
- Ira Glass’s ‘This American Life’ Leaves PRI
- A Woman Wrestles With A Disturbing Family Memento (tw: racism, death penalty)
- The Truth About Tinder and Women Is Even Worse Than You Think (tw: harassment)
- Fatal Victorian Fashion and the Allure of the Poison Garment
- When Feminists Are Gaslit
- Important Bird Posts This is BEST SITE EVERRRRR.
- So, You Want to Vote on Worldcon Location? Yay
- Transformers 4: Fuck This Movie Rachael, where can I contribute to your new liver fund?
- Robin Thicke’s Paula Is One of the Creepiest Albums Ever Made
- Snark? Crank? Maybe just a few thoughts on a minor phenomenon
- “Internet Famous”: Visibility As Violence On Social Media
- Diana L. Paxson clarifies a couple of things with regards to Marion Zimmer Bradley.
- The broad reach of the narrow Hobby Lobby ruling
- Sex-ed for the religious right: Conception does not occur at ejaculation
- Supreme Court Broadens Hobby Lobby Ruling to All Forms of Birth Control
- Female Justices issue searing dissent over new contraceptive case
Two things I read this week and loved:
- Polynia by China Mieville
- Baba Yaga Tries to Donate Money by Rose Lemberg
And a few updates on WisCon:
- Statements from WisCon Safety Chairs
- An economic data point This is an important post from Elise Matthesen on the economic costs of speaking up and reporting harassment.
- Three tweets from WisCon re: timeline for reports from subcommittees:
