🔖 Read Rebecca Solnit on Women’s Work and the Myth of the Art Monster (Lithub).
I want to be an art monster like Grover: lovable and loving and imaginative.
Want to read: Weird Girls by Caroline Hagood 📚
🔖📚📝 Read The Mother, the Artist, and Me by Caroline Hagood (Elle).
This is a great essay about what can happen when we bring our kids into the work of art with us, when our kids become part of our creative community.
Finished reading: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill 📚
I want to write a long response to this one but don’t have time today. It’s less about art-making than I expected. It’s also excellent.
Look, I’d love to play in an improv jam but I can no longer do things that START at 10 pm so I guess I need to organize an improv jam for sleepy people or you know, parents of young children.
I just want to fight censorship 📚 and make theatre 🎭.
Finished reading: Never Say You Can’t Survive by Charlie Jane Anders 📚
I love this so much! Charlie Jane Anders says to invent imaginary friends to hang out with and write about them, which inspired me to write stories about characters friends and I invented a while back and now almost 10K words later I feel capable of writing fiction again. Highly recommend.
Finished reading: Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn 📚
I might love this even more than Legendborn, which I didn’t think was possible. Tracy Deonn goes broader and deeper and is my hero.
I cannot recommend Book Riot’s censorship coverage highly enough. They’re doing great work, with Kelly Jensen leading it. If you’re in the US, you can also get their e-book How to Fight Book Bans and Censorship for $2.99. It’s helping me cut through feeling helpless. 📚
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I do weird things like buying a Krang cosplay t-shirt or getting all 3 The Librarians movies on Amazon Prime. Tonight, I subscribed to the newsletter of every local theater company I could find. How will daytime Kimberly feel about this?