I’m a bit scatterbrained this week, so no commentary, just a bunch of random. Enjoy!
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
- How Elizabeth Smart Is Taking On Rape Culture
- Space-Born Jellyfish Hate Life On Earth
- To the Producers and Cast of Sleepy Hollow: Keep the Waistcoats!
- Revisiting the sad, misogynistic fantasy of Xanth and as a chaser: MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits
- Why Everyone Should Be Reading Ancillary Justice If you haven’t already been convinced to read it, that is.
- It’s not a real heart, it’s a real artificial heart.
- Axe men’s body spray: What happens when a woman wears it for a week?
- What Is Mitt Romney Hiding in His New House’s Hidden Room?
- Two trans guys have a son. Are they raising him gender-neutral?
- This is delightful: Little Planet
- Your Spirit Animal Is Here
- Asian-American Band Fights To Trademark Name ‘The Slants’
- ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘Mother of George,’ and the aesthetic politics of filming black skin
- New International Dark Sky Park Opens in Michigan; Only Nine Others in the World
- Cosplayers Share Creepy Things That Have Been Said To Them
- Femslash Friday: Anne/Diana
- Take Back Halloween! Awesome Halloween costumes of the non-sexy variety
- First rule of Science Club: We don’t talk about lack of girls in Science Club
- Turning The Page On Unpaid Publishing Industry Internships While I am sure that unpaid internships can be highly educational experiences, they also make the networking opportunities that come with internships unavailable to people who cannot afford to spend a period of time working without a paycheck.
- Brenner, nun to Tijuana prison inmates, dies at 86
- Meet the Victorian women who fought back
- Ancient Bees, Dinos May Have Died Out Together
Pacific Rim awesomeness!
Victorians money quote: “It is a small consolation for Nancy Jones, in Whitechapel, who is kicked and beaten at discretion by her husband, to know that Lady Jones, in Belgravia, is always assisted in and out of her carriage as if she were a cripple.”
Will have to read MGK later (blocked here).
Also, loved the PR movie trailer (and I did love the movie, too).