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Angry on the internet?: A links round-up

An infographic to explain how you should deal with your anger on the internet. At first blush, I think these rules are pretty solid! You?

It’s about ethics in book reviews.

On Twitter the other day someone tweeted that “Strange Fruit” was by two white dudes, and I thought, “On the Nina Simone tribute album, you mean?” Nope. She meant there is a new comic book called Strange Fruit featuring an enormously strong mute alien who looks like a black man, and the two authors of it are both white dudes. So, worse than my first thought.

A story about two sets of identical Columbian twins who got insanely switched at birth and everything is insane.

This modern sequel to Five Children and It looks amazing, and I am angry that it appears not to have been published in the US yet.

The Rebecca sequel we ALL deserve.

Is African science fiction predicting the future? Relatedly, hooray for African sci-fi!

Code Switch’s Gene Demby writes an astonishingly compassionate and wonderful article about the Confederate flag and “heritage-not-hate” arguments.

A coda: As I schedule this post, yet another black person, a woman called Sandra Bland, has died under suspicious circumstances in police custody, following what should have been a routine traffic stop. I’m sure we’ll be learning more about this in the coming days, but anyway, I didn’t want to let it pass unmentioned.