A fascinating interview with Joanna Scanlan, actress from The Thick of it & Stella among other successful shows – she talks about how hard she had to fight to get an acting career at all, her history of depression, and how hard it is to live a life without creativity when you feel that is your calling. She’s a great example of a woman who carved her own way in her chosen profession (writing roles for herself when they weren’t offered) and whose acting career actually took off in her late 40′s, early 50′s. She’s now playing the wife of Dickens opposite Ralph Fiennes!
Kameron Hurley has been blogging up a storm around the release of God’s War into the UK, and I particularly liked this piece at Kate Elliott’s blog: In Defense of Unlikeable Women.
Becky Chambers at the Mary Sue didn’t think Assassin’s Creed: Liberation was a brilliant game, but she adored the complex female protagonist and takes apart all the elements of what makes this character so special. More of this please!
Again at the Mary Sue, a great interview with Kari Byron of Mythbusters, with particularly fun anecdotes about how she juggled her pregnancy with a job that requires you to blow stuff up.
Tricia Sullivan talks about self-promotion, and how it is taking over the job of the writer.
Via Felicia Day, a piece at the New Statesman about why the patriarchy hates it when women (especially famous, beautiful women) cut their hair. Felicia also talks about some of the reactions she has had to her own hair cut.
Why Mom’s Time is Different to Dad’s Time: an interesting piece analysing why some hosuehold tasks are more stressful for women than men, and why it’s possible for a couple to have completely different ideas about how much work each other does around the house.
MindMeld: what’s wrong with epic fantasy? I love how so many of these answers are: if you think there’s something wrong with this genre, you’re not reading widely enough in it. Find better books.
Justine Larbalestier on how online conflict isn’t necessarily worse than it was back in the day when people argued via letter column or in person.
Saved By the Bell and Punky Brewster comics are now a thing that exists in the world.