The Ladies Vanish by Shawn Wen:

Andrew Norman Wilson was fired from his contracting job at Google for interacting with what he called a different “class of workers.” He had been watching them for months as they exited the office building adjacent to his. Everyday they left at 2 PM (he later learned that their shifts began at 4 AM). “They were ( Read more... )

Writing People of Color (if you happen to be a person of another color

Stop Interrupting Me: Gender, Conversation Dominance, and Listener Bias

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via The Mary Sue.

We in the book community are in the middle of a sustained conversation about diversity. We talk about our need for diverse books with diverse characters written by diverse writers. I wholeheartedly agree ( Read more... )

Real Life Proves Why Luke Cage Endures

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Luke Cage was created in 1972 ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about writing this post for a while, I just wasn't sure how to because there's always the "stating the obvious" thing ( Read more... )

I need a Falcon icon ( Read more... )

Last night we went to see Belle, a film I was very much looking forward to and was delighted to see playing in town.


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Today's recommended reading: Confirmation Bias, Epic Fantasy, and You

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Confirmation bias doesn’t cause the phenomenon of Mysteriously Whitewashed Medieval Europe. (Or Peculiarly Denuded of Women Europe, or Puzzlingly Focused On The Nobility Europe, or any of the other bizarre things we tend to see in medieval Europe-flavored fantasy.) ( Read more... )

Oh look, another case of "transformative work becomes literature when a white man does it."

Mammy Revealed, and Not Just Her Red Petticoat; ‘Gone With the Wind’ Prequel Coming in October

Mitchell was criticized for the one-dimensional nature of many African-American characters in the book, particularly Mammy, who cared for the fiery Southern ( Read more... )

Previously I had a long and rambly post about women's writing that I want to bring up again because I found a lovely nugget in Joad Raymond's Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain. He reprints a comic poem by John Taylor (cited in The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse 1509-1659, selected by Norbrook, ed. Woudhuysen (1982), p. 740) ( Read more... )