Re-entry from Readercon has been rough this year: lots of catching up to do at work and I’ve got a delightful case of con crud so everything is taking twice as long as it really should.  So there’s a handful of links from me and then the rest are reader submissions (yay, reader submissions!).

Photograph by Mikko Lagerstedt

• Inside Planned Parenthood’s Push For Gender-Neutral Language
• How one man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyard
• What Do You See When You Look at This Cover?
• Too Old for Sex? Not at This Nursing Home

Reader Submissions

• From Lee:
  • “The Best Revenge is Your Paper”: Notes on Women’s Work: “It is about dating and relationships as women’s work, and it becomes a story about everything.”
  • Hunger Makes Me: “It made me cry, and also made me mad, and made we want to want things.”
• From Lilysea:
  • If We Wrote Men Like We Write Women
  • Hairyography
  • Makeup turns a young woman into an old punk-rock man
  • Are gendered toys harming childhood development?
  • NYC is introducing free tampons, pads, and sanitary napkins at public schools, homeless shelters, and correctional facilities.
  • Webcomic about a cheerful but snarky goth woman working at a taxidermy shop in NY city

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