Just Good Shit: 07.11.21
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Hello and happy July! I took last weekend off because my family was visiting and it was a holiday. Here’s what else I’ve got for you this week…
My shit
And the latest ep of Oh, I Like That, “Queer Faves Grab Bag,” is live! (But FYI there will not be a new episode this upcoming week.)
Reading
I read Plain Bad Heroines on my Kindle and loved it so much that I immediately bought the hardcover version and am now re-reading it — that’s how much I enjoyed it! I also finished Something to Talk About, and now I’m reading We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers.
Also:
The Horror of Surfside, Slate.
Donald Rumsfeld, Killer of 400,000 People, Dies Peacefully, The Daily Beast.
How Twitter can ruin a life, Vox.
The Police Called It An Accident. She Turned to 1-800-Autopsy., NYT.
When Implicit Bias Training Antagonizes the Workers It’s Supposed to Help, VICE.
Where Jobless Benefits Were Cut, Jobs Are Still Hard to Fill, NYT.
‘I was drowning inside’: How the sports world failed when 3 Black women needed help, The 19th.
Is There a Right Way to Act Blind?, NYT Magazine.
How Vlogging Is Empowering a New Generation of Stutterers, Catapult.
Can I Sit Here? | Let's Chat About Seating for Fat Folks, Marielle Elizabeth.
What happens when we die, Sick Note.
This Moth’s Name Is a Slur. Scientists Won’t Use It Anymore., NYT.
The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X’s Gay Pop Stardom, NYT.
The Lesbian Strippers Changing the Game of Male Exotic Dancing, Slate.
Note: All NYT links are “gift links,” which means they will not count against your 10-articles-a-month total.
Watching
I Think You Should Leave, the first episode of which had me fully crying laughing. The Coney Island episode of Defunctland, which was great, especially because we watched it right before going to Coney Island. And 9 to 5, which I’ve somehow never seen before and is… not a movie about unionizing (at least not in the traditional sense), as I’d always assumed!!!
Have a good one! 🍦