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🔖🎭 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.comRead: www.theatlantic.com
🔖📚 🍿 Some good things I’ve read so far today:
- Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of ’80s Fantasy (Tor.com)
- How Harrow the Ninth Uses the Language of Fanfiction to Process Grief (Tor.com)
- “What did I know of mortal babies?”: Six Parenthood Lessons From CIRCE (Book Riot)
- Out of the Closet and Out of Time: On Being an Old(ish) Mother (Literary Hub)
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Portrait of the Mother as an Artist – Guernica guernicamag.comRead: www.guernicamag.com
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.
Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.
there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my writing, or actually doing it.
Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood 🔖📚💬
🔖📚 Sara Fredman’s How Motherhood Helped Me Reject the ‘Father Tongue’ of Academia is both about writing the kind of thing I want to write and is itself the kind of thing I want to write.
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The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer ‹ Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com
🔖 Ravynn K. Stringfield’s How I Became a Scholar of Black Girl Fantasy is an energizing read. Psyched to be in her workshop on creative non-fiction for scholars.
💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing.
Catapult | On Writing (with a Day Job) | Richard Mirabella catapult.co
🔖📺🍿This piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as grand or mischievous as we’re used to. Great piece overall:
Loki as Other: Why Do Queer and Female Viewers Love the Trickster? tor.comRead: www.tor.com
🔖🍿📚 It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read:
Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian Gray. ‹ Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com
🔖 Putting a pin in this article to remind me to write later about the perils of outsiders researching affinity spaces, the overlooked punk rockness of the new domesticity, & how academia is constantly “discovering” things that have been going on for yrs.
🔖▶️ Watching Meet Courtney: An American Girl Movie & trying not to lose it every time they mention the Challenger or Christa McAuliffe. 35 years & yet it doesn’t seem like history to me.
🔖📺 Listen, as a 90s babybat I welcome the new Anne Rice television universe. 🦇
🔖▶️ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science communicator/comedian! Don’t throw any part of yourself away! (That’s from Austin Kleon.)
🔖📝 I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project with the word “Cut” in the filename and anything I don’t use goes there in case I want it later.