I’m cleaning out my backlog of links this week–brace yourselves.
- The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraud
- Some of Bach’s great masterpieces were composed by his wife Edit: it has been pointed out to me that this is generally considered to be a bogus theory, so read this with a giant grain of salt. I think it’s interesting to think about, though.
- On Kindness
- Can Chris Rock Make the Leap to Leading Man?
- Chris Rock on Ferguson, Cosby, and Obama
- Dear male feminist
- Recreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall
- “We all feel sad, Big Bird”: When Sesame Street confronted death
- The Circumference of Despair: On Depression and Language
- World Fantasy Awards: What Did I Say? This was such an amazing moment–I’m so glad I was able to be there in person.
- Some thoughts on the politics of trolling.
- The New Identity Media Manifesto
- All Dressed Up For Mars and Nowhere to Go
- The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare’s Histories in the Age of Netflix
- TERRAFORM, Erasure, and (how to break) Community Norms
- ‘Do I need to turn her in?’ — something has gone very, very wrong
- Three Tactics that Block Women from Getting Ahead
- Movements: Towards Change
- Dog Eat Dog Now this sounds like an interesting game. But one that I suspect I’d only want to play once.
- The Places in Between
- Making the Most of a 350-Square-Foot Studio in Detroit
- Jim Hines has a roundup post about harassment and the fallout at Context this year.
- Updating Centuries-Old Folklore With Puzzles And Power-Ups
- The Pain of the Watermelon Joke
- My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK
- Works By Karl Marx That Have Been Improved By The Addition Of Quotes From Dune It shouldn’t work and yet: it does.
- We finally know why these mysterious ‘Tjipetir blocks’ are washing up on European beaches
- This is why the middle class can’t get ahead
- I See a Book and Get Angry and Write a Thing
- The Importance of Being Kim Kardashian
- Jian Ghomeshi harassed me on the job. Why did our radio station look the other way?
- Tilda Swinton is a great and terrible goddess. We should tremble at her feet and despair. Also possibly a fairy queen.
- On File Formats, Very Briefly
- Does Sex Make Science Fiction “Soft?” C’mere, Tansy. I’ll recommend you some romance novels.
- Emic, Etic, and the depiction of Otherness in SFF
- Let’s Talk About Ethics In Games Journalism!
- When well-meaning people harm those they supposedly protect
- Why I don’t like hackathons, by Alex Bayley aged 39 1/2
- ‘Your Job Is To Make Money’: Coal Boss Laid Bare After Miner Deaths
- The Intellectual Condescension of White Liberals
- Broken Windows And Broken Lives
- Our Stories This is a deeply raw and personal essay by Roxane Gay. It contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault. I was in tears by the end.
