The answer to like, most of these articles is: more unions. Okay, not most of them. But some of them! Yay for labor organizing! I have made it through this week, a genuine miracle considering all the fuckshit this week has contained, and what I want to do this weekend is lie around and eat grapes and read about the British Empire’s many atrocities. But what I will do this weekend, probably, is lots and lots of stuff, because that’s who I am, fundamentally, as a person. TV is in a writers’ crisis and a showrunners’ crisis. What do book…
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Happy Friday, beloved friends! I bring glad tidings of great joy: Leverage Redemption has released a trailer and told us a release date (July of this year). Between this and Ted Lasso, the summer TV of 2021 is shaping up to really, really be what I deserve out of life. Here‘s the trailer for Leverage. Here‘s the trailer for Ted Lasso. Great. Now we are all on the same page. Two articles about burnout: one here, one here. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a tremendous writer on Black politics, and this profile of her is terrific. (link) Nadya Agrawal talks about what…
1 CommentLook, before we get into anything else, here is a post about a lawsuit that hinges on whether this one romance author invented the omegaverse. It’s important to know that she did not. This case gives me pure joy. I wish every day could contain an omegaverse lawsuit. This piece on Netflix password-sharing is incredible, but also, it has such a good update at the end. Adam Serwer on the Jussie Smollett mess and the history of hate crime hoaxes. Zak Cheney-Rice on what this case does and doesn’t mean. The knitting community is grappling with racism. Carrie Ann Lucas,…
Leave a CommentWELP I have gotten behind on my links, which means a bunch of these are old. On the other hand, the passage of time has lost all meaning and the news cycle is now 3.2 seconds, so the important thing is probably just that I included some snails in dollhouses for y’all’s Friday. Have a wonderful weekend! These are just some motherfucking snails inside some motherfucking dollhouses. Why casting Nagini as an Asian woman is so offensive. Ron Charles considers whether we still need Banned Books Week, and reaches no real conclusion. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a writer I adore, talks about…
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