A brief history of Mexican comics. (link)

Hafez divination helps to get Nilo Tabrizy through quarantine. (link)

Black fans are holding K-pop accountable for racism and appropriation. (link)

Clueless remains our best Jane Austen adaptation. (link)

The independent bookstore industry must grapple with its racism and complicity in white supremacy. (link)

True crime is going to have to change. It can’t just be about and for white people. (link)

Do you think you have a book idea? Here’s the first question you need to ask yourself (and where to go from there). (link)

“Sensitivity readers … are a piecemeal fix in an industry that continues to push minority voices to the margins.” (link)

A psychologist rates Brendan Leonard’s stress coping strategies. I felt extremely come-atted from the very first one, but there’s a strategy on his list about to-do lists that broke into my house and punched me in the face, and frankly how dare it. (link)

Alaya Dawn Johnson grappled with the racist history of noir in order to write a noir world that centers Black experiences. (link)

The new Netflix show Indian Matchmaking glosses over the hard facts of caste among Indian families. (link)

How should we cope with the constant moral shifts in the people we admire? (link)

Chefs shouldn’t rule like kings. Collaboration and support, not abuse and single vision, should govern restaurant kitchens. (link)

I hope you will be able to have some peace and quiet this weekend, or some non-scary excitement if that’s what you desire! Remember that everyone is struggling, so you are not alone and do not need to feel guilty for not being at the top of your game.

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Did you miss my linguistics nerdery? Great news: Here’s an article about how language shapes our brains.

Jenny Zhang on being a writer of color and the Best American Poetry mess.

If you like Return of the Jedi but hate the Ewoks, you understand feminist criticism.

Remembering to use a trans person’s preferred pronouns is no harder than remembering to use a woman’s married name: An appeal for good manners.

A high fantasy novel without incestuous subtext.

Awesome Person Sofia Samatar interviews Awesome Person Sarah McCarry about monster girls.

I heave enormous sighs every time I read about the Stonewall movie: Learning about Stonewall was my way into intersectional feminism, way back in high school, and I want there to be an awesome movie about it. But want must be my master. Here’s the wonderful Meredith Talusan on trans erasure.

Also: Stonewall is apparently terrible. A real stinker.

I gazed blankly at the news that Ta-Nehisi Coates is going to write a run on Black Panther for Marvel, for like twenty seconds. It sounds like the kind of joke somebody would make to illustrate why Marvel is so much better than DC. BUT IT IS REAL.

Strunk and White, grammar cops.

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