Finished reading: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean 📚
I love the heroine in this so much. Big eldest daughter, have-to-hold-it-together energy, and I’m so happy the hero is ready and willing to act as a partner and show her that just because she can do everything alone, that doesn’t mean she should have to.
🔖📚 Read What Eve L. Ewing’s Career Trajectory Tells Us About Black Women’s Place in Mainstream Superhero Comics by Ravynn K. Stringfield.
Dr. Stringfield does an awesome job illuminating how Eve L. Ewing’s comics career highlights structural inequality in the comics industry
🔖📚 Read A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life by Heidi Reimer (Literary Hub).
Finished reading: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sarah MacLean 📚
My first MacLeaniverse adventure and, of course, I loved it.
Me: goes to Target Ah, it’s so nice to be out in the world.
🔖 Read The films that gave us unrealistic expectations about what makes a ‘home’.
…I too had one of those houses I had always dreamed of. But it wasn’t by design… It was by living my life and creating a home that served the needs of that life.
Now that the offer letter is signed and everybody at the school has been notified, I’m happy to share that next year I’ll be the librarian at my son’s elementary school!
🔖📚 Read Tackling Ballet’s History of Anti-Blackness as a White Woman.
The infinitely kinder cousin of ignorance is curiosity.
A great short piece that’s about cultural humility as much as anything.
🔖📚 Read My Son’s Love Life Is None of My Business, Except It Is by Yukiko Tominaga (Electric Literature).
This is a lovely piece about love and dealing with our children growing up.
