I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.
- “Will We Be The Heroes or the Villains? History, Ideals, and Anti-Muslim Violence in America“–“Right now is when we find out what kind of people we would have been. And it turns out that many Americans are exactly the people our history books tell us we should abhor.”
- “‘You’re in my prayers.’“–“I’m glad we seem to have all this empathy for socially awkward Christians who just want to comfort you the best way they know how, but how about some empathy for the person going through the fucking trauma? Maybe they’re not at their best when they’re burying their mother or lying in a hospital bed. Maybe that’s okay.”
- “Miss Universe 2015“–“Honduras, holding an accessory that’s technically not a staff, but she did not drag a sequined animal familiar AND the bones of her enemies out onto that stage to listen to us lecture her on what hand-held accessories officially constitute a staff, you know?”
- “Things We Saw Today: Daisy Ridley Hangs with a Little Rey“–“Literally the cutest little thing I’ve ever seen.”
- “Likable“–“Hillary Clinton is the impossible woman. The pressures she lives under, every moment of her life, are so numerous and so all-encompassing that she barely has room to breathe. She doesn’t have an inch of leeway, a single safe option; there is no version of Hillary Clinton that won’t receive visceral hatred, and loud, personal criticism.”
- “Support for Abortion Highest in Two Years“–“The poll was conducted after Robert Lewis Dear Jr. allegedly killed three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility. It showed that about 58 percent of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in most or all cases, up from 51 percent at the beginning of the year.”
- “I’m Genderqueer — Please Stop Asking Me When I’m ‘Really’ Going To Transition“–“Over the past three years, people have gone from assuming I am ‘really gay’ to assuming I identify as a woman. Which, I guess, is part of why everyone has become so obsessed with my leg hair.”
- “Texas Gov. censors Bill of Rights; uses fake quotes and fraudulent history to claim atheists ‘promote ignorance and falsehood’“–“Abbott accused our exhibit of ‘promoting ignorance and falsehood’ then quoted, at length, erroneous history to support his position. The quote comes from a fabricated prayer journal, misattributed to Washington.”
- “Review-Journal editor steps down amid ‘makings of an adversarial relationship’“–“‘I think it would have been a long shot to think that I would have been able to continue on for very long in this role.'”
- “Domestic Violence Through a Child’s Eyes“–“In some sense, adults growing up in societies with certain ingrained values have no baseline too, but that is my mother’s story, not mine. I’m here to share mine.”
- “Designing A Visual Identity For Brute Reason“–“The whole thing felt too matte, too masculine, too witless: I couldn’t see her in it. Then it struck me that superheroes wore symbols.”
- “Several Arrested After Black Lives Matter Protest At Mall Of America, Airport“–“Law enforcement officers in riot gear also gathered outside of the mall.”
- “They mocked her ‘science fantasy’. Then Leigh Brackett wrote The Empire Strikes Back.“–“Of course, Brackett was a respected member of the L.A. science fiction writer community — and she was a mentor to Ray Bradbury, with whom she traded critiques and collaborated on some stories. But at the same time, her choice to write ‘science fantasy’ or ‘space opera’ wound up tarring her as a representative of a pulpy subgenre that many science fiction writers were embarrassed by, especially as science fiction tried to become more ‘mature’ and sophisticated in the 1950s.”
- “Why I quit my job as a reporter today“–“But here’s what I know: I can’t teach young people how to be ethical, upstanding reporters while working for a man like Michael Schroeder. I can’t take his money. I can’t do his bidding. I have to stand up for what is right even if the cost is so daunting that at this moment it scares the hell out of me.”
- “Photos: Black Lives Matter protesters disrupt Mall of America, airport“