- Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone
- Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath
- ArtLog: “What the Oracle Didn’t Tell You” Some really amazing poems in the comments.
- Sylvia Plath: The fig tree
- On Turning 30 I thought 40 was the new 30? At least that’s what I’ve been telling myself as I stare 40 in the face…
- The Complete Guide to Never Ever Ever Getting Fat
- How the Fuck-Off Fairy helped me fight fat-shaming
- When Did “Plus Size” Become An Insult?
- Hild by Nicola Griffith, reviewed by T. S. Miller This is a fantastic review.
- I watched the Dungeons & Dragons movie so you don’t have to.
- Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94
- Taking Shelter in Art. Finding Strength in Community.
- America Star Books: PublishAmerica Plays the Name Change Game
- Here’s How Hothlanta Happened (Again) It’s all infrastructure. It’s not that the people who live there don’t know how to drive in the snow, it’s that the region is wholly unprepared to deal with it. And Atlanta Snow Storm.
- It Happened to Me: I’m a big black girl around small white people & I’m suddenly feeling uncomfortable with it (a response to Jen Caron & xoJane.com)
- It Happened To Me: I Saw A White Girl On The Train And It’s Not Okay
- Decisions and Regret
- This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup
- Why GitHub’s CEO Ditched Its Divisive ‘Meritocracy’ Rug
- Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary
- Republican: Strip NFL’s tax-exempt status Wow, I agree with a Republican about something.
- Mexico’s Olympic Skier Is Absolutely Fascinating
- I Was A Love-Letter Ghostwriter
- Ancient Roman Infanticide Didn’t Spare Either Sex, DNA Suggests (via) The bit I find most interesting is at the very end–that babies became human over time in ancient Roman culture, not at the moment of birth.
- My Eighth Grade Portrait Disaster
- How To Write About Transgender People
- There was a harassment incident reported at Arisia. Q and A: Who are you now?, Bravery, Public Service and Priority, and So you have a harassment policy. Now what?. And this morning, Followups on the Arisia Creeper.
- Living With the Nazis Felicity Savage writes yet another interesting column for Amazing Stories. I wouldn’t have seen this one except that someone sent me a link.
- Why I Chose an “Ethnic” Pen Name
- Food of the Future
- Worth Flowers E. Catherine Tobler is, as usual, magnificent. Publishers, honor your contracts and pay your writers. Seriously.
- A Tale of Two TORS. Be Warned, I’m Annoyed and Phil Foglio, Girl Genius, and me
- “Misogofeminists” and the white men who profit from silencing critiques and On Twitter Toxicity And White Feminists.
- And then there’s Larry Correia. His response to Alex Dally MacFarlane’s introductory column at Tor.com was, well, really something. I’m not going to give him the traffic and luckily Jim Hines has taken the time to pull Correia’s pathetic argument apart so we don’t have to. And a lot of other smart people have written about this, too:
Friday Links: Ugly Leggings Edition
Ugly leggings, balls, and trauma. Not necessarily in that order.
Weird Achievement Unlocked: your linkspam (or at least something in it) made me actually commit an act of poetry for the first time in somewhere around fifteen years.
Thanks.