Here’s a history of all the times New York Times opinion columnists wrote opinion columns about how unkind the internet is to New York Times opinion columnists.

THE ARCHIVE WON A HUGO THE ARCHIVE WON A HUGO WE ARE ALL WINNERS, look, I’ll be very honest, this video of AO3 winning the Hugo for Best Related Work made me cry.

In other very thrilling Hugo news, Lady Business won for Best Fanzine! Wooooooooo! They are the greatest!

The writers’ room for Friends sounds awful omg how do people live like this?

This story about Robert Pattinson is kinda nuts. What a fucking weirdo.

“In Twelfth Night, I played Feste, the arch clown dressed in a motley coat, full of japes and bons mots. In Call of the Wild: The Musical, I played Spitz, the evil dog with sleeves that had fake tattoos on them.” On being in a traveling Shakespeare troupe.

Demanding likability leads us to dehumanize others.

400 years ago, the first enslaved people arrived in North America. The New York Times has created The 1619 Project to discuss the ways slavery shaped our country.

Here are 5 myths about American slavery that historians would like to see corrected.

“What we’re witnessing today is an [homelessness] emergency born less of poverty than prosperity—occurring not despite but precisely because of the economic boom.” Inadequate affordable housing is putting thousands of families out on the streets.

In spite of the authoritarian government in Uganda, Ugandan literature is thriving.

I’m furious about Amazon moving in across the street from Parnassus. In some communities, Amazon is the best option and indie bookstores are not available, but that’s not the case for Nashville. Fuck these guys. And fuck them even more for releasing The Testaments early.

Also, Amazon-owned company Audible wants to introduce a new “captions” feature that contravenes the rights of publishers. They are now being sued.

After Jeannette Ng’s extremely accurate criticism of the Campbell Award’s namesake in her award acceptance speech, the magazine that gives the award has decided to change its name. Yay! The Tiptree Award is currently considering a name change, and I’ve emailed them to recommend that they do make the change.

This exploration of what gets accomplished when white people are forced to articulate our racial situatedness is very interesting and also depressing.

To close out the week in links, I give you this blessed Twitter thread. It is old but very blessed.

I hope for you that your weekend contains many baby animals and nothing annoying, unless it’s baby animals mildly annoying you by being too adorable and wiggly. In the absence of baby animals, I wish you zillions of excellent books to read!

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On diversity in historical romance.

Given the history of Nazi appropriation of medieval studies and folklore, I was particularly interested in this February series at the Public Medievalist about people of color in the medieval world. The introduction to the series is here, and you can click through to the other pieces in it.

Well this story about a doctor who reads a lot but never any women makes me want to punch someone.

Why “we made it for the fans, not the critics” is nonsense.

The US is insisting that Cambodia pay off a huge debt incurred by a dictator the US installed via coup. It’s tremendously garbage.

How to counteract gaslighting.

Linda Holmes is predictably fantastic on the “Missing Richard Simmons” podcast.

I loved this Jezebel review of a book called How Not to Hate Your Husband after Kids, which both gets at a lot of intractable gender dynamics and made me want to read this book whose title initially really really put my back up.

Author Karan Mahajan on being brown in Austin.

Jia Tolentino is such a terrific writer. Here’s her piece on the gig economy and how it celebrates overwork.

Belle should have married Gaston: A historical perspective.

Why do dude journalists think lady celebrities want to sleep with them (spoilers: they don’t)?

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