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More Harassment Links than I Would Prefer: A Links Round-Up

No lie: I was looking at the bottom of this links round-up and thinking that it was pretty smart of me to corral all the harassment and assault writing in one big paragraph. Then I scrolled back up to the top and realized there were more harassment links because APPARENTLY nobody can just OBSERVE APPROPRIATE BOUNDARIES. I sure love boundaries, y’all. Here are some links. Some contain harassment; I wish they did not but if wishes were fishes, eh? A personal account from a former teaching assistant to Avital Ronell, the NYU professor accused of harassment. The brilliant Carol Anderson…

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Banning Nazis and curing toxic masculinity: A links round-up

It’s Friday! A day I used to not dread at all and now only slightly dread. Maybe this Friday nothing terrible will happen right at the very end of the day. Maybe if something terrible happens right at the very end of the day, I will already have gotten offline for the day. Aaaaaaaaaa. I thought we’d start this week’s links round-up with something heartening: An article about why the AskHistorians subreddit bans Holocaust denial on their platform. Here’s what’s been happening with the programming at WorldCon. For heaven’s sake. Mary Robinette Kowal and a team of other cool people…

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The Season for Franzen Mockery Has Begun: A links round-up

Franzen’s new book is out soon, and every joke the internet makes at its expense is music to my ears, yet also I sort of wonder if Franzen and his publisher and The Atlantic and The New Republic are pranking us. They must be, right? This can’t really be real? Anyway, for now let’s just enjoy making fun of Jonathan Franzen, as the founding fathers intended. Fantasy author NK Jemisin on disrupting the status quo. Note that the author of the interview refers to “stereotypical fantasy series like Lord of the Rings,” which is sort of insane because Lord of…

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Who-all’s being brilliant on the internet: A links round-up

On “trash food,” class, and the South. The short history of spoiler warnings. You should just assume that I’m going to link to everything Elizabeth Minkel ever writes. Here she is talking about the gendered reaction to responses to Zayn Malik’s departure from One Direction vs. responses to Jeremy Clarkson’s departure from Top Gear. Foz Meadows, being typically fascinating about the way gifs are changing critical discourse. She does seem to think that academic journals are profit-making beasts. Are they? I do not know. I have only worked on the books and online side of academic publishing, where we are…

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