Some links!

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I have done... assorted stuff. And meanwhile I'm trying to move my documents and so on across to my new laptop.

Hence: LINKS.

Patrick Califa (Poz Magine, 1998), The Necessity of Excess. My goodness, this piece. I love so many things about it.

Elif Shafak, (Literary Review), review of Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Needs Saving.

Elif Shafak (Guardian UK), I used to feel my rage was righteous. But on its own, it can be toxic

BBC, June 2021, The couple rescuing the house they bought by accident. This amused me a lot.

This Twitter thread by Sasha Coward on LGBTQ+ lives/perspectives, where he talks about how having a baseline lived queer experience can make processing all sorts of things outside of "the box" a step easier.

Jenny Lawson (own blog), Nonbinary pronouns: it complicated, but wonderful things usually are. This is just a really very solidly good parent testimony - unlike many of the chirpy supportive ones, she talks honestly about both the challenges her child's coming out posed to her epistemology AND the practical challenges, but with the trademark self-deprecating humour that just... balances both really well.

Charlotte Moore (Glamour.com), How bisexual women are being failed by their partners

ABC radio national (June 2021), Polio was eliminated in the Asia-Pacific: then it came back. This was both a fascinating and sobering read

Gemma Tarlach (Atlas Obscure), The deep roots of the vegetable that took over the world. A whole article on brassica rapa!

Dominique K Reil (Zocalo Public Square), The historian and the murder trial. Both fascinating, and a sobering look at academic employment realities.

Kathryn Hymes, (The Atlantic), Your household'secret familylect

Hugh Ryan, (Harper's Bazaar), The Incredible True Adventure of Five Gay Activists in Search of the Black Panther Party

Julia Serano (own blog), Transgender people, bathrooms and sexual predators: what the data say. In case you need the cite, here it is.

Charmaine Chua (own blog, 2015), The Chinese logistical sublime and its wasted remains. More from that anthropological blog series on container shipping.

Elete N-F (Gal Dem), Queer lovers rock: the reality of nightlife for black gay women in 80s and 90s london

Kate Lister (inews UK), A brief history of oral sex from ancient china to DJ Khaled

Bobuq Sayed (Pedestrian.tv), Growing Up Non-Binary Has Taught Me How Fluid (And Damaging) Labels Can Be

Eve Rickert (own blog), A survivor's bill of rights. I'm still keeping half an eye on the fall-out from the Franklin Veaux debacle. Eve remains the most... forward-facing, imho, of the voices.

Rachel Gutman (Atlantic), I returned to the office and found a very old apple. And, eventually, ate it.

Kathryn Bond Stockton (QueerForty), Exerpt from "making out". I still haven't finished "The Queer Child" but now I really want to read her latest.

Clara Bradbury-Rice (clubdesfemmes), Lesbian Camp: But I’m a Cheerleader by Jamie Babbit