This week's Culture Round-up
Let’s start with one for the queer theory fans - Michael Warner in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Queer and Then?
The World of Heyerwood has a post considering the question of whether Jane Austen read Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women
From Elisa Rolle, a post about Anglo-American gay writer Christopher Isherwood
I know I’m biased, but I think my partner’s post about The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner is rather good. She was reading it for long enough.
From The Guardian, an article about Ursula K Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
From Pickled Think, Fat people are not your literary go to for evil
There’s no way in hell I could read or watch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo given the themes, but this is an interesting and nuanced post from the F-Word: The cultural narratives they are a-changing
From Indie Wire, Cross-Post: 20 Years of Black Lesbian Cinema Before Pariah
From This Ain’t Livin’, No Disability at the Final Frontier: science fiction, cures and elminationalism
From io9, 10 Unsung Science Fiction TV Classics, none of which I’ve actually watched
This My Little Pony cartoon take on Star Trek: TNG makes the internet worthwhile for me
From Believer Mag, an interview with Laurie Anderson. Very cool.
Etta James died at the age of 73. My favourite song from her is Lovin’ Arms - yes I’m a sap.
And my favourite tumblr discovery last week was gross jeans which is full of awesome photographs
Crossposted to Flaming Culture
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