Evolution, go home. You’re drunk. (via)
Before we get into this week’s linkspam–I have a separate post with many links pertaining to This Week in Racist Bullshit. It’s important that we, as a community, make it clear that this is not acceptable behavior.
- How A Guerrilla Art Project Gave Birth To NYC’s New Wheelchair Symbol This is AWESOME.
- Game Design and Digital Dualist Ableism
- New DRM Promises to Ruin a Good eBook in the Name of Protecting It
- Iain Banks: A science fiction star first and foremost; Iain Banks dies aged 59
- Whitney Saves Douglas Davis’s ‘First Collaborative Sentence’
- How people read online: Why you won’t finish this article.
- The Knitting Needle and the Damage Done: One small, knitted step in the right direction
- Own to Rent Great piece on DRM.
- Man Rapes Unconscious Woman to ‘Save Her Life,’ Like That’s a Thing Trigger warnings. But some great GIFs in the comments.
- Moving Beyond the Sex Talk: Tom Leveen’s Manicpixiedreamgirl
- Jonah Lehrer book proposal on love: Did he plagiarize Adam Gopnik?
- Filthy Lucre Molly Crabapple on money, meritocracy, and selling out.
- Emotional Responses: Science, Romance, and Science Fiction Romance
- First footsteps into space heritage “To put it bluntly, Salt says, ‘This means that the bags of faecal matter left on the moon have more legal protection than the footprints of the first landing.'” Poo! On the moon!
- For Those of You Interested in Publishing: Some Thoughts on the Causality of Big Book Success. Also: Author Gender, Null Results, & Examining Privilege
- 6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism
- You commit three felonies a day
- All That I Ask Again: Charlie Pierce is a national treasure.
- What Happens to Women Who Are Denied Abortions?
- Theism and the just-world hypothesis: would it be unreasonable for a Game of Thrones character to believe in an all-good, omnipotent creator?
- A Secondary World, Much Like the First
- Right before The Soup Nazi came a full four episodes about worthless black men
- The Most Awesome Shoes in the Universe
- People Die of Exposure.
- Twitter vs Female Protagonists in Video Games Trigger warnings.
- Slut Shaming and Concern Trolling in Geek Culture
- Elise Cyr on The Role of Romance. I love the idea that romance challenges the status quo.
- Scottish trans woman ‘forced’ to leave town after she was branded a ‘witch’ (I am not thrilled with the quasi scare-quotes in this headline.)
- Bride of the Girl Cooties Fantastic round-up of a lot of the latest discussion around women in SF/F.
It’s so true about not finishing articles. I’m always after my students to get to the end of things, but more and more I find myself reading the first couple of paragraphs and then moving on. Oh internets, why you change our brains?
I know this book isn’t new, but are you familiar with Janice Radway’s Reading the Romance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_the_Romance, from 1984?
I’m… conflicted about the revamped wheelchair symbol, and really don’t want to call it an improvement. Not only does the current one look more like I do in my chair than the redesigned one, I’m wary of any exercise that equates agency with physical ability and passivity with physical disability. Not all wheelchair users have the ability to move their arms like that, and those who can’t aren’t passively drifting through life devoid of agency.
@Ridley: You know, I hadn’t thought about from that perspective before. Thank you. What I like about it is that for me it’s more about the person than the chair. But now that you’ve pointed it out, I can see how it could be interpreted differently.