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Side-eyes for Tina Fey: A links round-up

Published 20 May 2016 by Gin Jenny

Who debunks the debunkers? Get pumped: NPR’s Code Switch, your source for excellent conversations about race and American culture, will soon be a podcast! The first episode drops May 31st. Sharing your favorite stories with your kids: An impossibly adorable story starring Luke Skylocker. A seriously great black feminist roundtable in response to bell hooks’s response to Beyonce’s new music video; and a reminder why it’s awesome to live now and have all these amazing, smart, thoughtful voices available for us to listen to. Sob! The Toast is closing! Where will I get my art history jokes now? Tina Fey…

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Richard Sherman and Eurovision: A Links Round-Up

Published 6 May 2016 by Gin Jenny

How the whales have won (at Sea World). Note that this article describes people having their limbs torn off by orcas. Also note that orcas have never killed a human in the wild, I JUST MENTION IT. “We are not in a golden age of nuance”: A really remarkably good review of Marvel’s Civil War, from Linda Holmes at NPR’s Monkeysee. We really do seem to talk about trigger warnings more than encounter them, don’t we? Laurie Penny responds to Stephen Fry’s outburst of rage re: trigger warnings.1 Why white people tend to be so terrible about discussing race, and…

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Gay Stuff in Fandoms: A Links Round-Up

Published 15 Apr 2016 by Gin Jenny

Well, it’s been a nice regular week! I knocked out some library books. I killed some caterpillars (my kill count stands at 29 as of this writing). I hung out with some friends. Sampled mac and cheeses from two different restaurants. Just in general living my best life. A history of Gay Batman that is everything Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners have come to expect from Glen Weldon. Also, he adorably puts an apostrophe in front of shippers, bless his heart. Speaking of gay stuff and fandoms (but I repeat myself), Clare of The Literary Omnivore wrote a brilliant and…

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