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Pop Culture Criticism by Natalie Luhrs

January 3, 2014

Linkspam: 01/03/14

Serpent d'Ocean

Serpent d’Ocean, Huang Yong Ping (photo by David Gallard)

Time to head back to the linkspam mines…

  • Tackling a Racial Gap in Breast Cancer Survival
  • Linda Taylor, welfare queen: Ronald Reagan made her a notorious American villain. Linda Taylor’s other sins were far worse. This is just astonishing. In so many ways.
  • Researchers Find Factors Tied To Voting Restriction Bills Are ‘Basically All Racial’ …and is anyone really surprised by this?
  • Funky Turns 40: Black Character Revolution Exhibition And this? This is pure undiluted awesome.
  • Race Card: How did the English become white? Fascinating.
  • Ani DiFranco’s faux-pology: White privilege and the year in race Oh, Ani.  Emi says it better than I could (via).
  • Fantastic interview with Mikki Kendall.
  • The cost of reading every book: We know their names This was an extraordinarily sobering counterpoint to a recent What If? column.
  • This Is What Disability Binarism Looks Like
  • What’s wrong with assuming that programmers are male?
  • Why Marketers Fear The Female Geek
  • This is why we can’t have nice things: Sacco. [TW] This is a good analysis of the ugly turn some of the criticism of Justine Sacco took.
  • Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable
  • Why I Am Smashing the Scale
  • This post from Franklin Habit made me so sad.  I’ve had the privilege of taking a class from Franklin and he is a lovely and charming individual. No one should feel ashamed of their body. No one. And those are some fetching handknit swim trunks, too.  And I feel like one of the historical pictures he’s posted deserves further attention as well. Top hats and tiny swim trunks for everyone (who wants them)!
  • “Help, My Eyeball is Bigger than My Wrist!”: Gender Dimorphism in Frozen
  • Foz Meadows is over at The Book Smugglers talking about All the Pretty Women.
  • The Story of Benjamin Franklin’s Sister and How Women Are Sidelined in History
  • Romance and the Defensive Crouch Sigh. Really not sure what to say about this.  I am comforted by the valiant efforts of a few hardy souls in the comments and the invocation of Northrop Frye in comments, though.  This was also linked to by LitM this week! Great minds and stuff.
  • How I Started Writing Feminist Books: A Guest Post by Courtney Milan
  • So hey let’s talk about romance for a sec I gotta say, Line and Orbit was an amazing book and I’m really looking forward to seeing what Sunny does with the sequel. I’m hoping that Adam will be pantless for most of it.
  • Crossroads And Coins: Naomi Mitchison’s ‘Travel Light’ This book just jumped onto my list of books I must read.
  • Buy, Read, Talk: How to Help a Writer’s Career Yay, a new Sarah Monette book! I mean the debut book from Katherine Addison.  I loved loved loved the Doctrine of Labyrinths so am planning on buying and reviewing this one for sure.
  • On Crowdfunding and Publishing Excellent points here–there are a lot of crowdfunded publishing projects out there and one thing I rarely see is a marketing plan or, even, a plan to make these projects ongoing concerns.
  • Kameron Hurley on Making Excuses for Science Fiction.
  • Great, great, great essay from Ann Leckie.
  • Rosemary Kirstein has some bad news (with a good prognosis, also the first Steerswoman book is out in electronic format now–yay!).
  • On Ice: 100 year-old negatives discovered in Antarctic
  • Elf lobby blocks Iceland road project

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Comments

  1. Sunita says

    January 3, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    Oh, no, that post from Franklin made me cry. I never cry. I’ve never met him but I read his blog for years when I was knitting all the time. He is such a lovely person and so generous. And funny. I always thought he was attractive, in that not-conventionally-beautiful way people are always described in romance novels. I am so glad he modeled the trunks anyway (and they are much more appealing than my mind’s eye showed them to me). And fuck those commenters. (Sorry to swear on your blog)

  2. Natalie Luhrs says

    January 3, 2014 at 10:40 pm

    @Sunita: Swear all you like–there are parts of the knitting community that are SO toxic–but we’re all so niiiiice (sound familiar?). Franklin was so nice and so professional during the class I took from him–he made sure to say positive things about everyone’s projects and he was just really excellent (unlike another Big Name Knitting Teacher I took a class from a few months later). And he is hilarious–I think my favoritest post ever on his blog is the one where a random lady asked him if he had learned to knit in prison.

  3. Pamela Thomas says

    January 4, 2014 at 5:08 am

    Thank you for your AWESOME comment. We agree that our Funky Turns 40: Black Character Revolution Exhibition is “pure undiluted awesome”. But you put it words that are much more AWESOME! – Sista ToFunky (http://wp.me/p2c05z-3BK)

  4. Selki says

    January 5, 2014 at 12:49 am

    I’d never heard of Naomi Mitchison before, looks good.

Trackbacks

  1. First Linkdump of the new year | Cora Buhlert says:
    January 4, 2014 at 7:19 am

    […] At A Trick of Light, Sunny Moraine writes about how difficult it is to persuade SF readers to pick up her novel Line and Orbit, because it has a strong same-sex romance plot to go with the SF. Found via Radish Reviews. […]

  2. Links: Saturday, January 4th | Love in the Margins says:
    January 4, 2014 at 9:00 am

    […] This Is What Disability Binarism Looks Like – This post is framed around the viral image of a woman standing in front of her wheelchair to grab something of a liquor store shelf. The text on the pic says “Alcohol makes miracles happen.” As someone who can stand, with a lot of effort, mind, but I can, and also uses a powerchair, I offer this post all the QFT and +1. (h/t to Natalie.) […]

  3. World Wide Websday: January 8, 2014 | Fantasy Literature: Fantasy and Science Fiction Book and Audiobook Reviews says:
    January 8, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    […] authors (hint: you buy their books, and read them, and then talk about them). Thanks to Radish Reviews for both of those links, which I heartlessly stole from her. Also, the Jim Baen Memorial Writing […]

  4. » Review: The Steerswoman’s Road by Rosemary Kirstein Flight into Fantasy says:
    February 1, 2014 at 12:49 am

    […] I might like that” sort of way. It was only after a chance mention in one of Natalie’s linkspam posts that I finally tracked down an accessible copy of The Steerswoman’s Road, which is an […]

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