AHello everyone! It’s Saturday! I had a crazy Saturday that involved interviewing someone (more on that later) running around a suburb for no reason, and reading Gotham Academy: Endgame, which is a one-shot that fits into the Batman: Endgame story arc that I think just wrapped up? (Guess who...
Obviously this film had a lot of lesbian subtext because Johnny Depp, who was basically a lesbian for most of the ’90s, had hands made out of scissors.
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I’ve never been so excited about an AARP Magazine cover story, that’s for sure
Is it every day that Felice Newman is IMPRESSED with the RANGE of your study? No, reader. No it is not. BOOM.
There were dozens more of these stories, all about a single tweet, from virtually every outlet that publishes news. And they served their purpose admirably: They left no attention on the table. They represent the “we should have something on this” news impulse stripped to its barest form, left unspoken and carried out as a matter of course. Endless minimalist Takes, obviously duplicative from the producer’s side but not necessarily from the other, all drawing energy from a single glowing unit of information.
I’m writing this on Thursday night, next to a Kerr jar filled with freesia and a glass of organic red wine because that’s what happens when you get married. You just get freesia as soon as it’s in season. No one tells you that because a) it’s wrong to get married for the freesia alone, and b) they know that if more people got married, there wouldn’t be enough freesia to go around. I, on the other hand, love you dearly, as if you were my own sister or otherwise-gendered familial entity, so I will tell you these things. You don’t get wine for being married, though. That comes with having kids.
This week’s Friday Open Thread is all about gettin’ zen with your bad self. Get in here!
Somewhere on a mysterious compound in Cuba, Tupac and Selena are clinking their mojito glasses together conspiratorially.
It wasn’t that riot grrrl was born out of punk. It was more like riot set punk on fire and rose screaming out of its ashes. Riot wasn’t about punk like feminism isn’t about men. It didn’t happen because we hated men, it happened because we loved ourselves and knew the kind of world we deserved. What riot wanted couldn’t be contained. And that was the point, wasn’t it? That women and grrrls didn’t have to accept a world built by men. Women didn’t have to adhere to men’s standards of beauty or power or worth. We didn’t have to have conversations using their vocabulary.
On my Women’s Studies professor’s desk (not with her)
Barring their ability to change government and economic policy by swinging their sparkling manes, the unicorns do little for the greater economy, where job growth is slow, wages are stagnant, and the wealth gap is widening.
