“To celebrate what was good and criticize what was lacking in the American Revolution were two sides of the same civic coin. Both were necessary for political reasons, but not least because both were true.” On the historians’ debate over The 1619 Project.

To nobody’s surprise, the Catholic Church continues to resist transparency on child abuse by priests. Also the owners of the New Orleans Saints are for some reason involved???

As a 28-Year-Old Latino, I’m Shocked My New Novel, Memoirs of a Middle-Aged White Lady, Has Been So Poorly Received.

Heeheehee this is just some Little Women fanfiction about Jo writing fanfiction, as she would.

Comics discuss the jokes that should be retired in 2020. I agree with most of these, but I also love Sara Schaefer and Shalewa Sharpe for being so like, positive and kind in their answers. What nice people.

Black authors are changing what YA publishing looks like. (We hope.)

Would your partner Force Majeure you?

“The baby takes a ton of purse stickers (as in, they are stickers that look like purses) and puts them on the floor, and they look really awesome since we don’t have a rug, but I can’t even compliment her art or really look at it because of dopamine.” Rebecca Harrington tries a dopamine fast.

Historical movies and biopics consistently sideline women, people of color, and queer people in a very ahistorical manner. Fuck the Oscars.

Most people who live to an extremely old age — allegedly — are lying or mistaken. Is Jeanne Calment one of those people? Warning: This article is a journey.

Museums are grappling with the fraught histories of their funders and their acquisitions.

Here’s Roxane Gay on the complicated emotions that Kobe Bryant’s history and death have engendered in her and many people.

And that’s all the links I have for you right now! If you’ve read anything interesting this week, please drop it in the comments so I can read it too. Have a wonderful weekend!

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All the excuses people give for making shitty racist movies, and why none of them are that convincing. (Clap your hands if you are pleased to see Ghost in the Shell bombing.)

On feminist SF writers and the dystopian worlds they create. And it’s got a hell of a concluding paragraph.

Oliver Sacks’s partner, Bill Hayes, writes with such clear-eyed love and sweetness about Oliver Sacks. It’s not everyone who can write about the person they love as well as this.

Feminist hypocrisy is the new trend in start-up narratives.

I am perennially furious that guys are given such a narrow range of potential gender performance. Boys look great in makeup! Let boys wear makeup, society! Here is a deeply personal and lovely essay about sexuality, gender performance, and Snapchat makeup filters.

Brit Bennett, author of The Mothers (which I liked a lot), talks to The Millions about black stories and having her book adapted for film.

On the myth of the lone wolf terrorist.

This article and then this article on the accuracy of the therapist’s depiction on Big Little Lies has made me 150% more likely to actually watch this show.

Art world scandals are my favorite scandals.

Marvel’s being shitty again, but luckily Gavia Baker-Whitelaw is here to explain what’s going on. Swapna Krishna has some ideas for Marvel to bring in more female readers.

Stephanie Powell Watts on books you love that don’t love you back.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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