Sometimes, you’re thinking about a thing because of life circumstances and all (in this case, teaching feminist critical literary theory to a class last week), and you feel like maybe you should go write it all down and figure it all out somehow… And then you stumble across something that makes you realise, actually, you’ve […]
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It feels awkwardly risky posting this in the wake of #MeToo, but isn’t that the point? That something like this shouldn’t be controversial? And so: I randomly stumbled across this while searching my archives for something else, and it is salient, and it is relevant, and it is important. Men: you are not brainless sheep.
MEN ARE NOT BRAINLESS SHEEP (SHOCKING, I KNOW) (a repost) Read More »
Because the only things I can think of to talk about are the fact that I made a Patreon and all the craptastic garbage fire of sexual assault exposes going on both in media and social media rn, and I’m not peppy enough for a sales pitch, and I’m way too ragey to write anything
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Writers deserve to be paid. Artists deserve to be paid. The reason is this: If you don’t pay people to make art, only those who can afford to will make it. Only those who have sufficient income to allow them leisure time, time spent not actively pursuing ways to ensure the survival of their family,
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GRRM (George R.R. Martin) is what we call a sloooooow writer. Stephen King is what we call a fast writer. In Chuck Wendig’s 2016 Mandate post, he refers to a comment that he once received from a reader stating that his books were no good and that he ‘settled’ because he wrote too fast. This
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Son is 3 years and a double handful of weeks old. He never stops moving, loves throwing balls, kicking balls, catching balls; driving cars, trucks, buses, trains; makes dinosaur noises and squeals like a pig; would live in a sandpit if he could convince adults this was remotely plausible; and his current favourite colour is
Fact: Gender Stereotypes are Stupid. Read More »
showing a documentary to the class on social media and how corporations collect and sell data based on likes and RTs etc they are all so naive and they are totally missing the point they’re all like – dude, that guy is so not even funny and i’m like – dude, he makes a living out
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So I meant to post this like a month ago when it was a Hot Topic, but we all know I’m less than timely when it comes to blogging, so meh. Better late than never. With the context that a top news site released an article essentially degrading adult readers of Young Adult (YA) fiction,
Reading Young Adult Read More »
Don’t be a dick. Don’t SHARE the photos. Because it takes more than just the girl to have the photos spread around the entire school. Unless she’s sending them herself. In which case, y’know. Don’t. *sigh* Read more:Men Are Not Brainless Sheep (Shocking, I Know)Thought of the Day: Critiquing is Easy. Doing is Hard.Sidetrack: Do
And, it must be said: BOYS. YOU TOO. Read More »
Just don’t friggin’ send the photos, m’kay?! http://www.ilona-andrews.com/just-life/on-being-a-teenager-in-a-digital-age Thank you. (Yes, me with my teacher hat on. Deal. 😉 ) Read more:What It REALLY Means To Be TrilingualWhat Kings Ate and Wizards Drank…Fact: Gender Stereotypes are Stupid.
