Look I know I KNOW we are all tired of the kidney / group chat / bad art friend discourse, it was fun when it dropped and now it’s the end of the week and we’re tired, I KNOW. It’s just that I need to talk about it with my mother at Sunday coffee, and for that to happen I need her to read the article, and for her to read the article I have to be like MOM READ THIS HERE on my blog or else one of us is going to forget that we ever wanted her to read it. So, you know, if you are tired of kidney discourse (organ donation is awesome! contacting people to demand that they like your Facebook posts is not awesome!), please just skip the first link and move on and know that I’m very sorry.
MUMSY READ THIS ARTICLE. Everyone in it is such an asshole. THANKS AND SEE YOU SOON. (link)
Did your mom keep buttons in that one kind of cookie tin? Priya Krishna goes long on food containers and how we repurpose them. (link)
In trying to rewrite sexist narratives about the women of the 90s (and other recent times), films and TV shows often flatten out their complexities. (link)
Someone’s gotta stop Disney. (link)
Here is a piece about Margaritaville in Times Square that’s really about our relationship to work and leisure and how fucked up it all is. (link)
BLOB COVERS. Now that someone’s pointed it out, I can’t unsee it. (link)
Jails and prisons were always unbearable. Under COVID, they’ve gotten worse. (link)
“If one race—black people—was essentially invented in order to be bought, sold, used, and enjoyed at will, the desire to transform oneself into that race, even imaginatively, amounts to the capitalist impulse to own.” Namwali Serpell on racial transformation. (link)
“Viewing the average R. Kelly defender as uniquely deranged misses the societal forces that empower people like him in the first place.” Shamira Ibrahim on her time among the R Kelly supporters at his trial. (link)
The dangers of stan Twitter. (link)
“There would be no River of Gender to cross and leave my old life behind.” Ryka Aoki (whose new SFF book Light from Uncommon Stars I reviewed this week!) on what Ranma 1/2 meant to her. (link)
Who coaches the life coach? (or, cultish nonsense, part eleven trillion) (link)
Have a beautiful and majestic weekend, my darlings! Remember to strive for ethical behavior in all things! And remember that even if someone does a slightly unethical behavior unto you, it’s wise to have a sense of proportion rather than stalking and harassing the person what wronged you over the course of five years.