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Pop Culture Criticism by Natalie Luhrs

November 5, 2015

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"Pyrite Hands in Prayer", Daniel Arsham

“Pyrite Hands in Prayer”, Daniel Arsham

  • They Found Love, Then They Found Gender: “People who identify as genderqueer — or gender non-conforming, non-binary, or gender fluid — don’t fall into the male and female binaries; rather, their gender varies across the spectrum and may shift over time.”
  • Olivia Waite reads and reviews a Harlequin Presents: “I would have enjoyed at least 50% more bitchiness, at minimum.“
  • This may be the most horrifying thing I have ever read:

    (Men help other men recover what is theirs. If you belong to a man, other men will help him find you, if you go missing. You will always be found. Does that make you feel safe?)

  • No, wait. This is the most horrifying: “Child sex abuse victims face a dilemma. To be recognized as victims, they cannot remain silent, but they must be silent enough to seem authentically hurt.“
  • I have very mixed feelings about Humans of New York and this is part of why: “Any ambiguity or intrigue to be found in a HONY photo is chased out into the open, and, ultimately, annihilated by Stanton’s captions, and by the satisfaction that he seems to want his followers to feel.”
  • Leslie Miley speaks out about diversity at Twitter HQ: “When he responded with ‘diversity is important, but we can’t lower the bar,’ I then realized I was the only African-American in Eng leadership.”
  • Why I am worried about Twitter and why you should be too: “Twitter simply hasn’t managed to build an organisation capable of executing the strategies necessary to build and maintain a successful social media platform.”

And finally! “The Call of the Sad Whelkfins: The Continued Relevance of How To Suppress Women’s Writing“ is an essay that Annalee Flower Horne and myself wrote about Joanna Russ’s How To Suppress Women’s Writing, Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, and Sad Whelkfins. We had a lot of fun writing it and I hope you all enjoy reading it. WHELKFINS.

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