If you only knew how many times I’ve intended to post this links round-up and gotten distracted! It is twice! Twice I have meant to do so! Then time went on, and I didn’t post them, and everything was and is chaos. You know! You know how it is. So now here it is, a month since my last links round-up, and I have a crazy number of links, but that’s just how we’re going to have to live our lives now. Like if I told you how many times I have eaten popcorn for dinner in the last month, you would be embarrassed for me.
….Please read these links so I can stop babbling.
This one’s for my Mumsy! The Kew Botanical Gardens guy talks trees.
Imani Perry considers how the global use of the word “auntie” is colliding with the term’s complicated history in Black America.
How has spoiler/anti-spoiler culture affected the way we engage with art? I cannot answer this question because I have never once felt that I understood exactly what constitutes a spoiler to other people.
The new anti-trans executive order in Texas is leading to a mass exodus of child protection workers.
The literature of billionaires (both fiction and nonfiction) is, at its heart, deeply sinister.
Killing Eve chose cruelty in its finale.
Inside the contentious world of font sizes on music festival posters.
My favorite thing about this piece by a scream artist for the movies is her description of how the world of scream acting has changed in response to the explosion of different kinds of roles (and therefore different kinds of screams) for women.
On triplethood and its difference from twinness.
“I can’t shake a sense of foreboding when I consider a Zuckerbergian pornverse.” A visit to the Erotic Heritage Museum for a talk on digisexuality.
White supremacist groups, including domestic terrorist groups, actively prey on and recruit white boys through social media. Teaching kids the truth about our history can protect them.
“they killed someone” like what are you protestant
JK Rowling was not included on a list of 70 great British books. This is not censorship or being silenced.
Amy’s Kitchen assures consumers that it’s a positive brand making positive impacts. OR IS IT? (It is not; brands are terrible; have faith in nobody except for Tony of Tony’s Chocolonely; and not even him; but oh God if it turns out he’s bad I will be crushed.) Anyway, Jaya Saxena is terrific.
Somehow, there was a time before the internet. At least that is what Hari Kunzru claims.
A McSweeney’s quiz about having a toddler in this stage of the pandemic.
Emily St. James considers the parental apology fantasy.
Twitter has been a crucial lifeline for trans people. Will that disappear now that Elon Musk runs it?
With Pamela Paul’s departure as editor of the New York Times Book Review, the renowned book review venue is at a tipping point.
“Feminism, much like BDSM, doesn’t figure into the text of the Fifty Shades trilogy itself, nor does politics more broadly.” Happy tenth birthday, I guess, to Fifty Shades of Gray.
“Am I a book stylist? I am not. Or maybe I am, I don’t know. Would it be the worst thing in the world if I were?”
I’m obsessed with this story of a Grey’s Anatomy writer who just! made up all sorts of tragedies about herself! part one (cw made-up cancer) and part two (cw made-up abuse but also a bunch of real abuse)
Democrats keep getting it wrong on abortion.
Kim Cattrall is happy with her decision to never return to Sex and the City.
This is what a black hole sounds like.
These have been: LINKS.