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