🔖 Read “The Girl With The Green Ribbon”: A Tale of Many Lives. 📚

🔖 Read Dear Congress: Paid leave is not a perk. It’s a requirement..

🔖 Lee Skallerup Bessette’s You Can Ask for Mental-Health Help, but Can You Find Any? is crucial reading. It hits extra hard in the wake of a clear mental health crisis at the school I graduated from (4 times). 🧠

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Catapult | I Found My Literary Community by Writing Book Reviews | catapult.co

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Catapult | Why Full-Time Freelancing Isn’t For Me | Gabrielle Drolet catapult.co

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🔖 Read The Quiet Crisis of Parents on the Tenure Track.

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Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes – The Daily Free Press dailyfreepress.com

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🔖 Read The Invisible Burden That Leaves Moms Drained. Especially timely since I just hosted my kid’s (outdoor masked) birthday party last weekend. I’m blessed to not have as heavy a burden as many others but it’s still there.

🔖 Read On Pandering. This piece made me think about how lucky I’ve been to always be writing for my past or future self or for a body of colleagues that is mostly women.

🔖 Read Why Everyone Is Always Giving Unsolicited Advice (Tressie McMillan Cottom for the New York Times).

🔖Read “So Coke-y…So Entitled!”: This Is What It Was Like Going to Bennington College With Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, and Jonathan Lethem. 📚🎙️

🔖📺 Read Nathan Lane on Only Murders in the Building’s Big Twist.

🔖📺 Read Why Only Murders in the Building Is the Most Romantic Show on TV.

🔖 Read Star Trek’s food replicators may be on their way to your kitchen. 🖖

🔖 Read Amia Srinivasan: “Feminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideas”.

🔖🎭 Read On and Off Stage: The Deep-Seated Bias in the Culture of American Theatre.

In addition to thinking about whose plays get produced, promoted, and awarded, Kayser makes me think about who gets to be critics and who can afford to go to shows.

🔖 Read What Reading Looks Like When You’re a Full-Time Author (Book Riot).

🔖 Read Please Keep Doing Virtual Book Stuff After The Pandemic.

Jessica Pryde makes a great argument for maintaining virtual and/or adding hybrid book events even when it’s safe to hold them in person.

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The Caregiving Economy - The Atlantic theatlantic.com

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🔖📚 🍿 Some good things I’ve read so far today:

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Portrait of the Mother as an Artist – Guernica guernicamag.com

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To think of the mother as artist does not necessitate a conflict, nor does it require a choice between passive domestic surrender or total domestic rejection, although for a long time the world demanded that it did. Such frames only reinforce hierarchies, limit her to merely a fragment when, of course, she is com posed of many pieces.

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Craft — a designation used to subjugate many art-making practices that have been the domain of women: needlepoint, pottery, quilt making. With their connections to the home, these mediums have been historically dismissed, supposedly lacking the rigor and intellectual complexity of high art.

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“I have drawn my children and painted them endlessly and I cannot distinguish them from my soul…"

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she sometimes wonders why an artist must inhabit turmoil or drama to be taken seriously.

🔖💻 Read Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Ron Norman. If you didn’t already believe we were living in the Matrix, this article will convince you we are.

🔖📝 The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer ‹ Literary Hub

if you’ve read a book penned by a woman with young children recently, there’s a significant chance it was written while hiding, losing sleep, or using inventive distractions. (Or even all three.)

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The Public Writing Life: How to Lose an Editor in Five Days katieroseguestpryal.com

🔖Read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s essay, Bullet Journaling to Save a Life. Beautiful.