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May 3, 2013

Linkspam, 5/3/13 Edition

Static, Alex Hall

Static, Alex Hall

  • Speculative Fiction 2013: Open for Submissions
  • Your Dream Fanzine
  • Writer Body, Writer Heart, Writer Mind
  • Before the Automobile (via) Absolutely amazing historical dress blog.
  • Really, really, really wonderful comic.
  • The Sisterhood of the Pimp Ninja Sluts and The mysterious Tatsuya Ishida.
  • Punishing Pandora And A Surprising Opinion On Anne Rice “You are decoupaging the text from the wrong perspective.”
  • Here’s my very inspired and productive writing process Hey! This is my process too! SQUIRREL!
  • The Unknown More on writing.
  • White privilege radically changes the appearance of Tsarnaev bros (via) Seriously? We’re going there? Related, from the article: Irish-Americans, Racism and the Pursuit of Whiteness
  • Your Feminism Ain’t Like Ours, Because We Are Raising Quvenzhané (via)
  •  Let Spare Rib reflect all the richness of online feminism
  • NBA player Jason Collins says he is gay and this extremely important counterpoint: Brittney Griner And Race, Gender, Sexuality And Sports: Cross-post From Trudy At Gradient Lair as well as this: Actually, Jason Collins Isn’t the First Openly Gay Man in a Major Pro Sport
  • Mother Wants ‘Pornographic’ Diary of Anne Frank Pulled from School
  • Why I Now Hate Erotic Romance
  •  On Space Opera: Why so many brothels in space?
  • Women in Science Fiction Check the date. 1982. SIGH.
  • Unequal to Me A found text poem by Zoe Whittall that replaces the word woman in book reviews with man. The results are telling.
  • There are girl cooties on my space ship–on women writing hard SF
  • Sexism at Fantasy Book Cafe Yes. This is everything that is wrong with that piece.
  • A.C. Wise’s list of some Women to Read
  • Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism 
  • The Document: an Open Letter From San Jose State U.’s Philosophy Department (via)
  • Courts’ Campaign to Squeeze Poor Debtors Goes Awry (via) This is pretty much pure evil.
  • In which I Use a Bunch of Arrows to Illustrate the Plot of K.A. Mitchell’s No Souvenirs I would like to point out, to the world, Brie’s genius at graphic design. Why she isn’t being asked to do book covers is completely beyond me.
  • Lovesick and Tired: Unnecessary Romance in YA
  • To baby or not to baby: that is the question
  • Where Have All the Historical Romances Gone? (via)
  • Whitewashing? KHAAAAN!
  • How I learned to stop hating and love GOOP
  • God’s War UK: Two Years After My First Novel, Some Thoughts
  • How Hard Can It Be? Hooboy. Popcorn, anyone?

Also, I realized that there’s a huge hole in my reading.

How to Suppress Women's Writing, Joanna Russ

How to Suppress Women’s Writing, Joanna Russ

That and Terry Tempest Williams’s When Women Were Birds should make for stimulating weekend reading.

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  1. Victoria Janssen says

    May 3, 2013 at 8:52 am

    Yes, you must read that book IMMEDIATELY. And then blog about it! *bats eyelashes*

    • Natalie says

      May 3, 2013 at 8:54 am

      I started reading it last night. I am not sure there’s enough blood pressure medication in the world. Or enough highlighter ink. (In other words, Super-Relevant to My Interests.)

  2. Rosary says

    May 3, 2013 at 10:04 am

    Joanna Russ? I’ve read excerpts from that, and they made me mad (back in the grad school day), but I’ve read so much since then I can’t recall it. I guess I should hunt it up. I should be grading Cinderella stories not looking at Linkspam!

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  1. How to Suppress Women’s Writing, Joanna Russ — Radish Reviews says:
    May 6, 2013 at 8:32 am

    […] I mentioned on Friday, some of my weekend reading was devoted to filling a large gap in my reading, Joanna Russ’s […]

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