“Just as more women earned degrees, the jobs that require those degrees started paying disproportionately more to people with round-the-clock availability.” Oh shit.

The problem with Black Widow. Also, how the straight agenda ruined Avengers: Endgame. Spoilers at both of these links.

Why are we so addicted to conspiracy theories?

Here’s what happened to Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com.

Can indie bookstores be forces for good if they’re not paying their employees a living wage? Likewise, can we really claim John Beilein is sooooo greeeeeeat given that he chose to work in college basketball? (This latter one takes no prisoners.)

Here are your SF recs for the month of May!

What it’s like to travel when you have a “bad” passport.

I love Olivia Waite’s romance columns for the Seattle Review of Books, and this one about placeholder heroines is particularly excellent.

American society isn’t so much protecting shitty privileged teens as it is protecting a shitty privileged status quo.

Sady Doyle on Game of Thrones and why that last episode made no goddamn sense.

Which characters are considered disposable by showrunners and by fandoms? There’s, uh, a pretty clear pattern.

We are in a period of Hollywood handshake hyperinflation. Where is the media on this important issue?

That thing where some of the most venerated and canonized journalists just made a bunch of shit up.

I have recently been thinking that it’s maybe never? okay? to use living people’s real life tragedies for entertainment (in the context of the HBO show Chernobyl), and this article confirmed that thought in the context of the true crime boom.

And that’s all, folks! I hope you enjoy your weekends!

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A profile of Lindy West, on the occasion of the release of Shrill.

How the internet is helping to preserve critically endangered languages.

What is society really nostalgic for, when it talks about “going back” to an era of healthy, home-cooked meals?

The reality TV industry isn’t providing adequate mental health care to its participants. That needs to change.

This article about classic party fiction is good but the fact that it doesn’t include the party scene from Mary Renault’s The Charioteer makes me question its leadership.

I am constantly forgetting who Bret Easton Ellis is, but that didn’t make this review of his latest book any less satisfying.

On 10 Things I Hate about You.

Here’s a list of the best bookstores in each state in the US.

If you want to read new SFF in the month of April, Book Marks has you covered.

FASCinating piece on using fashion to solve cold cases.

Want to know what’s been happening with racism in the romance industry? The Guardian‘s got you!

And now, on to the readathon!

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