Friday Links Rides With Lady Justice
It’s been a week full of rainbows. Thanks to the US Supreme Court bringing in equal marriage, Australian politicians are finally acknowledging that it might be worth asking if that’s what our country...
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My Fridays are so much more jam-packed than they used to be so Friday Links have fallen by the wayside. Whoops! I have so many juicy bits and pieces saved up, though, I had to do one today. Judith Tarr...
View ArticleFriday Links Can Temper Steel
I was fascinated by this article about a trans woman’s history with the art of blacksmithing – how she originally used it as a kind of ‘free masculinity points card’ to make herself seem like a less...
View ArticleFriday Links Loves The Gallifreyan Shopping Network
20 years on (wow), the Mary Sue looks at some of the ways that Xena: Warrior Princess changed television. Also, a message from Lucy Lawless. Xena is the definitive best. Thank goodness for my DVD...
View ArticleFriday Links is Coming Up Tansy
Because I’m lazy, this week’s links are all things I should have blogged about this week. Crowdfunding now! And Then: The Great Big Book Of Awesome is at Indiegogo. I really want this book to go ahead...
View ArticleFriday Links Has Feelings About Frankenstein
Sady Doyle went off on a magnificent Twitter rant aimed at the director who thought the original Frankenstein novel was boring – she lays down some important lit crit and historical context about Mary...
View ArticleFriday Links is Holding Out For A Hero
It’s been all Jessica Jones all week for me! Here are this week’s episode reviews, which cover Episodes 6-11: Jessica Is Her Own Worst Enemy Jessica Jones Wants You To Do The Hero Thing Jessica Jones...
View ArticleFriday Links has Fearless Optimism
L.M. Myles, known to many Australians as Scottish Liz, has a lovely essay up at Uncanny talking about her search for an SFF grandmother, and how the author Naomi Mitchison so beautifully met her very...
View ArticleFriday Links Provides the Recipe
I’ve been mildly obsessed with pie-baking over the last few months (thanks largely to watching far too many seasons of Supernatural in a very short time frame, good thing I’m not also going around...
View ArticleThe Secret Lives of Friday Links
Two amazing and thought-provoking essays about the changing face of technology: The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens chronicles the rise and fall of teen entrepreneurs who built effective Tumblr networks...
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