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The Westing Game and Other Matters: A Links Round-Up

Published 28 Jun 2019 by Gin Jenny

We did it, friends! We made it through another week! I hope we all have wonderful, soothing, unstressful plans for this weekend, with all our favorite foods and drinks. We deserve it like crazy. Garbage in, garbage out: A really straightforward and helpful look at the ways algorithms become biased. Jia Tolentino is one of my all-time faves, and this is a piece about The Westing Game, so I am about as happy as it is possible for a person to be. Remember that thing where Sherrilyn Kenyon said her husband was poisoning her? Lila Shapiro has been reporting it…

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Just Gonna Split These Down the Middle: A Links Round-Up

Published 10 Nov 2017 by Gin Jenny

Welp, another Friday, another week of sexual assault revelations. Since I’m guessing some of y’all are tired of reading even quite excellent cultural commentary about sexual predators, I’m going to split these links up for you. Here’s the ones that don’t contain any sexual assault: It’s the year of our Lord 2017, and we are just now publishing the first translation of the Odyssey by a woman. (Buy it! The physical book is really beautiful!) Angelica Jade Bastien on Now Voyager I never don’t click on articles about the medieval historians trying to fend off Nazis. (Poor medieval historians! They…

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I FEEL GLUM: A links round-up

Published 19 Jun 2015 by Gin Jenny

Jerry Seinfeld is weirdly on a tear about the PC police being the death of comedy. Here are Emily Nussbaum of the New Yorker and Linda Holmes of NPR making me happy on Twitter with their rebuttals. Stacia Brown on the racial prism, saying some super true truths about New Haven, CT, where I lived for a few months. On teaching diverse literature. A round-up of reactions to the utter madness of Rachel Dolezal, of which my favorite is the Guardian article by Meredith Talusan. Plus one more from Jamilah Lemieux. For real, though, authors: Don’t respond to negative reviews…

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As usual, I need more internet: A links round-up

Published 26 Mar 2015 by Gin Jenny

I have an exceptionally great collection of links this week, y’all. The internet is the best, isn’t it? Terry Crews on misogyny and toxic masculinity. Apparently this dude also works to prevent human trafficking. Yay for allies. Some thoughts on Islamophobia in dystopian fiction. Not sure of your language when you’re talking about race / sexuality / disability / whatever? The Conscious Style Guide is here to help, rounding up links that explain why you shouldn’t say that, what to say instead, and generally how not to be a dick accidentally. A reminder that these exceptionally gorgeous coloring books for…

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