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🔖📚 Read Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love. A heartbreaking excerpt from Ashley C. Ford’s memoir, Somebody’s Daughter.
🔖📚 Read Stories and Hormones Shape Our Lives by Elanor Broker. Beautiful essay weaving together personal experiences of trans matrescence and the books Detransition, Baby and The Argonauts.
🔖📝 Read Finding Time to Write About Motherhood… While Parenting During a Pandemic . The usual fragmented life of a mother is intensified by the pandemic.
🔖 I’ve started calling my kid Little One & after reading Meg Elison’s How Lwaxana Troi Became Our Space Aunt I couldn’t be happier to be aging into my natural camp grand dame-ness. 🖖🏻📺
🔖📚 Austin Kleon writes today about [wintering and dormancy] (https://austinkleon.com/2021/05/04/wintering-and-dormancy/), quoting Katherine May’s book Wintering. I’m reading the book right now. What I didn’t know before reading but appreciate is that May is writing about leaving academia.
🔖📺🖖 Read The Measure of a Man Demonstrates the Many Forms of Love by Anna E. Gant
🔖📺🖖 Hrisoula Gatzogiannis’s The Only Work Ethic I Care About Is the One on Star Trek details what Picard explains in the TNG episode “The Neutral Zone.” A 20th century man asks “What’s the challenge?” & Picard says “To improve yourself… enrich yourself.”
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Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com
A seemingly objective position is only subjectivity rendered invisible but still implicated.
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SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies louisaellenstein.comRead: louisaellenstein.com
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Against Aca-Fandom bogost.comRead: bogost.com
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On Disliking Mad Men justtv.wordpress.comRead: justtv.wordpress.com
🔖 Read No One Makes a Living on Patreon.
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Rebuilding the Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com
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The Web We Lost anildash.comRead: anildash.com
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Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon polygon.com(via baldur on micro.blog)Read: www.polygon.com
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How Bookishness Affects the Book Biz publishersweekly.comRead: www.publishersweekly.com
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On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature ‹ Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com
🔖 Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of hand-lettered logos from Marvel comics pre-2000. My favorite series from this era is the 6 issue miniseries Kitty Pryde & Wolverine. Ray doesn’t have that logo, but I did grab a Kitty Pryde logo and a Wolverine logo to stick here.
🔖Also, the Sesame Street Tiny Desk Concert made me tear up. 📺🎵
🔖 I highly recommend this video of the Yip Yip Invasion at Phoenix Comicon 2017, in which a group of cosplayers dress as The Martians from Sesame Street and hilarity ensues. 📺
Don’t mind me, I’m just over here flailing in response to the Picard Season 2 Teaser Trailer. 🖖🏻📺🔖
Reddit user JaytheChou is photoshopping Paddington into a different movie every day and it is a source of joy. 🍿🔖
I’ve always been resentful of the trope where girls have to pretend to be boys to get stuff done, but Natalie Zutter’s piece about Leia disguising herself as Boushh especially the part about Padme subverting it, is a welcome fresh perspective. 🍿🔖