Look, before we get into anything else, here is a post about a lawsuit that hinges on whether this one romance author invented the omegaverse. It’s important to know that she did not. This case gives me pure joy. I wish every day could contain an omegaverse lawsuit.
This piece on Netflix password-sharing is incredible, but also, it has such a good update at the end.
Adam Serwer on the Jussie Smollett mess and the history of hate crime hoaxes. Zak Cheney-Rice on what this case does and doesn’t mean.
The knitting community is grappling with racism.
Carrie Ann Lucas, a vocal disability advocate, died because her insurance company wanted to save $2000 on an antibiotic.
All worldbuilding is inherently political.
Here is a completely bananas article about a fake sex doctor, although holy shit TW for dismissive, irresponsible language about suicide and attempted suicide.
I am so embarrassed that I never realized Henry Higgins in Pygmalion is queer-coded. Dammit, My Fair Lady!
Namwali Serpell considers the limits of fiction’s ability to make us more empathetic.
Nobody remembers this influential 19th-century novel, written by a woman. This article argues that it’s all Henry James’s fault, which feels like — kind of a stretch? Like, the whole of the literary canon tends to exclude women as much as possible? I don’t think we can really lay it all at the door of one obituary.
More Murderbot is on the way!
An excellent vid of the ladies of Marvel. (Though as Michi Trota points out, it also highlights the lack of Asian women in the MCU — I’d have loved for this to include some Melinda May!)
Sarah Gailey on how imposter syndrome can lead to abuse.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Michelle Obama’s persona and her new book, Becoming.
Happy weekend, friends! If you’re in a place that’s liable to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, I hope that place is celebrating in a nice, fun way and not an awful, gropey way!