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Unions unions unions: A links round-up

Gin Jenny — Fri, 20 May 2022 13:39:02 +0000

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 people want? UNIONS.

A viral twitter thread claimed that a forager people in Tanzania eat no plants. The thread is wrong; but more importantly, it points up the historical prejudices that continue to haunt the field of anthropology.

The 4*Town backstory you needed after finishing Turning Red.

Everything I have learned about the Amber Heard / Johnny Depp thing has been against my will. The online response to it has been very deeply disturbing.

Western audiences have missed the Buddhist and Daoist thought and symbolism woven through Everything Everywhere All at Once (which I have still not seen yet! argh!).

I do not read audiobooks and cannot weigh in on whether less is more when it comes to audiobook reading, but still I found this article interesting.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor considers the Buffalo shooting and what happens when we try to hide from history.

Here’s what happening in the Republican Party in Idaho.

BookTok is bringing attention and energy to the backlist.

Daniel Lavery lays out some common rhetorical strategies used by families who feel they have the right to determine their loved one’s gender transition by committee.

“Without first having had ASL, I would not have understood myself as a person with a story to tell.” Sara Novic discusses her new book and the recent explosion of art that engages with Deaf culture.

The two best-known Darcys chat about being Darcy.

When Tulane’s medical school was accused of racism, it was the accusers who lost their jobs.

Happy Friday, friends! Hang in there!

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Yes, There Are Some Takes on the Slap Thing: A Links Round-Up

Gin Jenny — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 08:00:28 +0000

I apologize in advance for extending the life of the slap discourse, and I invite everyone to ignore it and move forward with your lives. It is also notable (to me) that there has not been an equivalent amount of discourse about Louie CK winning a Grammy, which — since you ask! — does indeed make me want to set myself on fire. So amazing how confessed abusers get to carry on having richly awarded careers! It is almost as if the industry doesn’t actually care about protecting people from abuse! I don’t know!

Without further ado, some links:

“Blackness deserves a seat at the Seder.” (link)

Jay Edidin’s consistent fury with Professor X shines in this important work of journalism about X-Men sex ed. (link)

Gita Jackson (link), Mikki Kendall (link), Ijeoma Iluo (link), and Stitch (link) consider The Slap.

On a totally different note, Sara Novic considers CODA’s Oscar win and the movie’s mixed reception in the d/Deaf community. (link)

Jaya Saxena wonders if we need to keep telling Julia Child’s story. (link)

Two Twitter videos that made me very happy: one (link) and two (link)

A goblin historian explains “goblin mode.” (link)

I am terrified of TikTok, and I’m right to be. That is my final statement on the matter. (link)

Drew Magary is done with sympathetic villains. Bring on the straight-ahead monsters. (link)

“Bridgerton’s thinned notion of color consciousness only acknowledges racial difference in as much as it does not derail the story.” Kristen Warner considers the new season’s approach to representations of race. (link)

I will read literally any story about the drama that’s currently happening in some random niche online community. This week it’s herbalism! (link)

Serial killer expert Stéphane Bourgoin built his career on a scaffolding of lies. The internet found him out. (link)

Angelea Preston won the all-stars season of America’s Next Top Model, but her crown was unceremoniously stripped from her because of a brief stint doing sex work. She spoke to Bustle about her experiences.(link)

“But sometimes there is no proper way to go, there is no trick of perspective that makes everything clear.” Colin Dickey on cabins in the mountains, lateral thinking, and the COVID-19 pandemic. (link)

Charithra Chandran, who plays Edwina in the new season of Bridgerton, seems like an absolute delight in this Teen Vogue interview. (link)

Sean Campbell writes with sorrow and grace about the Black Lives Matter organization’s decision to use money from fundraising in summer 2020 to buy a $6 million dollar house. (link)

Deciding people’s worth based on the trauma they’ve survived is a broken, exploitative system, and the Mackenzie Fierceton story proves it. (link)

That’s all, folks! Have a tremendous weekend! I wish you all the best of luck in staying out of niche community internet drama, which is much more fun to read about than to participate in.

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KELLY MARIE TRAN: A Links Round-Up

Gin Jenny — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:00:40 +0000

I’d say that I am currently at peak excitement for The Last Jedi, but it’s impossible to say with any certainty. As we draw ever closer to Star Wars Day (the 15th but actually for me probably the 16th), I likely will grow ever more excited until I see the movie or explode, whichever comes first. So let’s start this week’s round-up with some Kelly Marie Tran news.

Kelly Marie Tran in Buzzfeed. Kelly Marie Tran in EW. Kelly Marie Tran sorting Star Wars characters into Hogwarts houses, an activity she’s so pumped to do. And lest we forget, here’s John Boyega’s last-year enthusiasm for her, bless his heart.

I think about this picture a normal, sane amount.

Okay, good. We are all happy now, about Kelly Marie Tran. Now back to dismantling the patriarchy. (PS Kelly Marie Tran being in Star Wars is also dismantling the patriarchy, thanks Kelly Marie Tran, we owe you.)

“Many men will absorb the lessons of late 2017 to be not about the threat they’ve posed to women but about the threat that women pose to them.” Rebecca Traister on all this sexual assault business.

Love this interview with Roxane Gay.

Comedians have to get over themselves, says Drew Magary. And he attacks that awful trope of shitty, offensive comedians being truth-tellers, THANK CHRIST.

How Get Out inspired a UCLA course on horror and racism. Get Out is a movie I have seen, and it is very frightening and has lots of creepy, clever little Easter eggs for, like, critical race theory nerds. (I’m kidding.) (Sort of.)

The movie was better: AV Club has a round-up of movies that out-awesomed the books they were based on. I ardently cosign The Princess Bride in particular.

The New York Times published a puff piece about how nice and normal Nazis can be. This is only surprising to people who don’t realize how normal racism has always been.

A NOAH’S ARK REPLICA. I have nothing further to add. It is a REPLICA of Noah’s ARK that you can VISIT AND TOUR.

What would make Matt Lauer’s apology less infuriating?

20 Authors I Don’t Have to Read Because I Dated Men for Years. Bahahah this is gold and not just because she calls Kurt Vonnegut the manic pixie dream girl of American literature.

There was this mind-numbingly stupid article at Slate about how this one lady ended up marrying her boss so we better watch out lest the #MeToo moment GO TOO FAR. Here is a good response.

Happy weekend! Go watch the Star Wars trailer a dozen more times. You’ve earned it.

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