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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I am having my toddler godson over to my house later today to PARTY PARTY PARTY, and our agenda includes playing on my main bed, which goes up and down with a remote control, and my spare-room bed, which is a loft bed that you climb up to sit upon, and my fancy bean bag chair, which Toddler Godson enjoys to be thrown upon from a distance. I did not deliberately set up my life to have a ton of furniture that’s fun for a toddler, but I do find it curiously validating. Anyway, here are some links!

These GE workers are absolute heroes.

Tiger King represents something fundamental — and grim and doomed — about American culture. Also it’s deeply weird that the show wants to make Carole Baskin the villain. (Except it’s not that weird, because: misogyny.)

HISTORY OF MURDER BALLADS. I love murder ballads. Please share your favorite murder ballad in the comments.

I’m not as mad as some about the How I Met Your Mother finale but it was dumb and unfair and Cristin Milioti deserved better.

“To be a teenager is to be a testing ground for the assembly of your person; to be a young adult is to have free rein to make mistakes. At some point, we make a plan that reflects the self-knowledge we’ve accumulated thus far — I am this, I like that, here are my intentions.” On learning to swim.

Black scholars discuss the film of The Color Purple and its complicated legacy.

Emily VanDerWerff tried Quibi so you don’t have to.

Elizabethans dug true crime. (Sort of.)

“Hoelscher said she’d submitted the puzzle with no men, but wasn’t surprised when the Times editors changed that.” Once again, the white dudeness of crosswords.

“You’re Paul Kinsey, you pretentious fucking fraud.” That “what character are you” personality test has been confronting for some.

Amazon’s self-publishing platform has been a welcome home for white supremacy.

Happy belated Passover if you celebrate Passover! Happy early Easter if you celebrate Easter! Stay safe and stay inside, and one day we will be free of this!

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