Apparently my beloved, very insane Doctor Odyssey is on the bubble for renewal, so please watch it! It’s so silly and such a goofy, fun reset for my brain every week. It’s about a bunch of horny doctors on board a cruise ship, and every week has a theme. Here’s an interview with Joshua Jackson, who stars in it.

New Fansplaining article dropped! Amanda Rae Prescott does a deep dive into the long history of racism in the Bridgerton fandom and the fandom of period romance more broadly.

“If Rachel Zegler has no defenders, it means I’m dead.” How the young star of Disney’s Snow White remake is being set up to take the fall for the movie’s failure.

The tech bros love to talk about (and grievously misunderstand) epic poetry. Why?

You can’t post your way out of fascism. This article is a terrific reminder to pick up Katherine Cross’s book, Log Off, which I am very very excited to read.

While I’m not tremendously interested in assigning this or that label to queer people of the past, I was still interested to read this piece on Oscar Wilde and bisexuality.

As women in sports have become more prominent and visible, they’ve also acquired more stalkers.

The flight attendants who have served on ICE’s deportation flights speak out about the conditions on those flights. Deportees are not treated like people, and no plans seem to exist to evacuate them safely in the case of an in-flight emergency.

A historian of ancient Rome breaks down why Gladiator II fucking sucks.

“You’re doing really well if your university seeks to destroy your newspaper.” The student journalists of Texas are facing an uphill battle.

RWA is filing for bankruptcy. Here’s an overview of how RWA tanked their own organization through racism.

Stay safe out there! And catch up on Doctor Odyssey on Hulu! It’s so fucking silly! I promise a good time!

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Without further ado, some links:

“Blackness deserves a seat at the Seder.” (link)

Jay Edidin’s consistent fury with Professor X shines in this important work of journalism about X-Men sex ed. (link)

Gita Jackson (link), Mikki Kendall (link), Ijeoma Iluo (link), and Stitch (link) consider The Slap.

On a totally different note, Sara Novic considers CODA’s Oscar win and the movie’s mixed reception in the d/Deaf community. (link)

Jaya Saxena wonders if we need to keep telling Julia Child’s story. (link)

Two Twitter videos that made me very happy: one (link) and two (link)

A goblin historian explains “goblin mode.” (link)

I am terrified of TikTok, and I’m right to be. That is my final statement on the matter. (link)

Drew Magary is done with sympathetic villains. Bring on the straight-ahead monsters. (link)

“Bridgerton’s thinned notion of color consciousness only acknowledges racial difference in as much as it does not derail the story.” Kristen Warner considers the new season’s approach to representations of race. (link)

I will read literally any story about the drama that’s currently happening in some random niche online community. This week it’s herbalism! (link)

Serial killer expert Stéphane Bourgoin built his career on a scaffolding of lies. The internet found him out. (link)

Angelea Preston won the all-stars season of America’s Next Top Model, but her crown was unceremoniously stripped from her because of a brief stint doing sex work. She spoke to Bustle about her experiences.(link)

“But sometimes there is no proper way to go, there is no trick of perspective that makes everything clear.” Colin Dickey on cabins in the mountains, lateral thinking, and the COVID-19 pandemic. (link)

Charithra Chandran, who plays Edwina in the new season of Bridgerton, seems like an absolute delight in this Teen Vogue interview. (link)

Sean Campbell writes with sorrow and grace about the Black Lives Matter organization’s decision to use money from fundraising in summer 2020 to buy a $6 million dollar house. (link)

Deciding people’s worth based on the trauma they’ve survived is a broken, exploitative system, and the Mackenzie Fierceton story proves it. (link)

That’s all, folks! Have a tremendous weekend! I wish you all the best of luck in staying out of niche community internet drama, which is much more fun to read about than to participate in.

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