What does appropriation mean in food culture? (link)

NPR crowd-sourced a list of the best SFF from the last ten years, and it’s a good-ass list. (link)

The Jeopardy! situation was some real fuckin bullshit and I want a recount, I want the recount to consist of everyone egging Mike Richards until he gets down on his knees and begs LeVar Burton to come back and host forever and then Mike Richards retires to, like, Chalmette. (link)

An interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, an author who writes a gorgeous, weird, fascinating range of SFF novels and has a new one out about Mexican revolutionaries. (link)

Contestants on the Bachelor franchise are, in fact, there to make friends. (link)

On misunderstanding Thoreau. (link)

I have never read not even one single word of John le Carre and I probably don’t agree with this writer’s final argument about George and Ann Smiley, but I still found this piece a hell of a good read. (link)

Mortgage approvals are systematically racist; which I know we all know, but here’s some more evidence about it. (link)

Welp, I was completely out on Y: The Last Man the series and then I started hearing about how hard the writing room worked to include trans voices and tell trans stories and now goddammit I guess they have lured me back in. (link)

“I simply enjoyed the fundamental separation of church and state.” How RPF and celebrity fandom has changed in the world of the vast internet. (link)

adrienne maree brown talks about the place of Black anger in speculative fiction and stories about Black grief. (link)

This deep dive on classic Black television is terrific, like everything Hannah Giorgis writes! (link)

Urban Meyer sucks. Here is a story of how the Ohio State football system failed a survivor of domestic violence (at the hands of one of their coaching staff). (link)

On editing fascist propaganda out of Wikipedia pages. (link)

It has been a very defeating week. If you have any good news, or anything that’s not news but is making you feel a little bit good, please drop it in the comments and make me smile. Have a wonderful weekend!

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A list of things I would actually like men to explain to me. LOLSOB TO ALL OF THIS.

Charlie Jane Anders urges writers to play to their weaknesses.

Should corporations have a universal, unfettered right to censor the content their subsidiaries produce?

Jenni Monet now publishes a separate version of her news articles online, specifically for a native audience, after many occasions on which she feels native content in her work has been stifled or eliminated by editors.

A lot of writers title their books Horse Latitudes. An intrepid book reviewer read and reviewed them all.

This profile of Marlon James by one of my favorite critics, Jia Tolentino, is superb but does make me want to stay ten miles away from Marlon James’s books because I can’t spend my life reading rape scenes men wrote.

Wesley Morris asks why the Oscars keep falling for fantasies of racial reconciliation.

Publishing has a diversity problem. What’s it like to be a woman of color in a racist industry?

We’re in the Instagram age of book design (and I personally love it, and I’m not even on Instagram).

Gary Younge is having none of Liam Neeson and NOR AM I.

Happy Friday!

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Episode 60

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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour

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