- Shaun King exposes corruption in St. Louis (with images, tweets)
- Hands Up / Guns Out: On Being Brown and Alive
- It’s OK to admit that H.P. Lovecraft was racist. And S.T. Joshi can’t or won’t let. it. go. Also, if he has a webmaster I’ll eat my hat. If he had a webmaster, his bloviating would have permalinks. And finally, dude? It is totally okay for you to adore Lovecraft and spend your life on his works. No one is trying to take that away from you. I swear.
- Kids, Pants, Booze, Music: Trouble In River City And Always This is fantastic.
- Unraveling by Toni Nealie This is a long read but worth it.
- “Wretched, disgusting commie leftists”: My nightmare fighting gun nuts in a red state The author of this piece, Amanda Gailey, is a former colleague of my husband. She is a brave woman–there are some people out there who really have no sense of proportion when it comes to guns.
- Kanye West and proving your disabilities Kanye, you are gross. Stop doing that. Just stop.
- With Debt Collection, Your Bank Account Could Be At Risk
- Schizophrenia Isn’t One Disorder but Eight
- New report slams Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for secrecy around harassment of women online
- The Books That Made Me Who I Am I love this post from Roxane Gay. Love it.
- Bomb Threat Targeted Anita Sarkeesian, Gaming Awards Last March
- FBI investigating death threats against Feminist Frequency creator Sarkeesian
- On Diversity: Two Sadnesses and a Refusal
- Monopoly and Appropriation
- The Most Feminist Moments in Sci-fi History
- The Ada Initiative is running a fundraiser–if you can afford to donate, it’s a worthy cause!
- Alan Lomax’s Massive Archive Goes Online This is amazing and awesome and I need to set aside some time to explore.
- Sailor Twain and the Misty Medium
- The black Victorians: astonishing portraits unseen for 120 years
- Minecraft Creator Explains Controversial $2.5 Billion Sale to Microsoft Someone offers me that much money to take that sort of headache off my hands? I’m taking it too. Running a something as popular as Minecraft has to be an incredibly draining task–especially when you haven’t anticipated its popularity.
- Sky Burial I’ll note that this talks about body farms in a fair bit of detail.
- Half of lower class Americans literally can’t afford to sleep
- Asthma and The Mirror Empire
- Anthony Weiner and the Revolving Door
- Brave New (Marketing and Promotion) World
- A Personal History of Misogyny
- Where Are the Women in Makerspaces?
Links: Dune-y Dune-y Duuuune
(voice over) Dune. Arrakis. Desert Planet.
