Here are some things I have been reading; perhaps you, too, will enjoy them! Colonial Williamsburg has become a space for truly complex, careful conversations about American history. In America, the arts depend on charitable giving; that’s not ideal. “The Death of the Fuck”: on puritanism and sex scenes in books. I found this article fascinating — it’s about how the modern world assumes we want everything to be speedier and more efficient, but that’s not actually what we want all the time! God, I miss Blockbuster. Meredith Shiner reflects on the high holy days, Palestinian lives, and that one…
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Listen, I will never recover from the first link in this links round-up, and that is just because I think it’s quite rude that someone walked into my family home and took numerous secret recordings of how we talk and how other people feel about how we talk. YES it took several years before my brother-in-law was able to figure out how to participate in our conversations because he was too polite to interrupt us and therefore he never got to say anything at all. YES I show engagement by peppering people with questions. Please let me have my privacy…
Leave a CommentLook, 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,…
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