🔖Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark: 2020 was supposed to be the year I got back into theater. 🎭

🔖 In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON Were…A Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the ways this was very much NOT colorblind casting. I especially appreciate her acknowledgement of the trauma related to maternal health outcomes. 📺

🔖 This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to show up, they make it so scholarship recipients actually want to stay: ‘SNL’ And ‘Second City’ Announce Scholarships For Diverse, Emerging Comic Talent

🔖🍿 The Wonder Woman Movies Have a Women Problem A great analysis with ideas for how Wonder Woman movies could better reflect all the best stuff about other Wonder Woman media.

🔖 Tips for Starting a Bookstagram: Getting started in the bookish corner of Instagram can be overwhelming. This blog post offers some helpful advice.

🔖 Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020: disheartening, but not surprising.

🔖 Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020 - Roguelikes reflect not only the cycle of the pandemic year, but also the cycle of chronic illness.

🔖 Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us I will never not appreciate Ed Yong.

🔖 The Vaccine Rollout’s Known Knowns and More In Zeynep Tufecki’s Insight newsletter, Whitney R. Robinson explains the intersection of exposure, infection, and fatality risk and how it interacts with vaccine prioritization.

🔖 The Life in The Simpsons Is No Longer Attainable I don’t have a word for how this article hit me, but it hit me hard.