Clitorises and Fiction

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Growing Up On The Seedy Underbelly Of The Internet “It’s funny, I remember loading Zelda.com, and Zelda.com was definitely a porn website,” Merritt Kopas, author of Internet Murder Revenge Fantasy, recalled. “This was like, early 90’s, so I’m sure Nintendo bought it back, but [it used to be] a porn site.” via Pocket

Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared? I WAS one of the first women in the San Francisco Fire Department. For more than a dozen years, I worked on a busy rig in a tough neighborhood where rundown houses caught fire easily and gangs fought with machetes and .22s. via Pocket

How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’ There is a lie we like to tell ourselves, a bending of the truth that permeates most of the food world in the West. We like burgers and fries, and other quintessentially American dishes, but we also love foreign cuisines, the vast and varied bucket of foods we rush to dub "ethnic. via Pocket

The Prudes’ Progress: Re-membering Feminist Desire, Part VIII – Conclusion and Bibliography This is the final part of an eight-part series of articles, The Prudes’ Progress, about non-objectifying, woman-identified sexuality based on ideas of equality and whole-personhood, in the tradition of lesbian feminism. via Pocket

The Prudes’ Progress: Re-membering Feminist Desire, Part VII – Re-membering Feminist Desire This is the seventh part in an eight-part series of articles, The Prudes’ Progress, about non-objectifying, woman-identified sexuality based on ideas of equality and whole-personhood, in the tradition of lesbian feminism. via Pocket

Make Foolproof Stir-Fry Dishes with This Simple Formula Once you know the basics of stir-frying, an endless variety of quick and healthy dishes will await you. These infographics from Cook Smarts tell you everything you need to know. via Pocket

It's Not All About You! Learning about the universe—and our place in it—is one of the most mind-blowing experiences of childhood (that and realizing parents are just, well, people). Few children go on to explicate nature’s greatest mysteries, but Michio Kaku, now a theoretical physicist and science popularizer, did. via Pocket

Negative Space: On Asexuality and Atheism I don’t usually think of all the things I’m not. There is at least one universe full of things that I am not, so listing them all would seriously cut into my leisure time. Beyond that, there doesn’t seem to be much of a point to it. via Pocket

The Basics of Fiction I taught a fiction class in Columbus Saturday (and by the way Columbus, did you have to make Exit 108B unreachable both north AND south? not that I’m bitter), and then I went to Wapak for a family day (Callie is two, can you believe it?), and then I came back and realized they were delivering a r via Pocket

Moot Point — dubiousculturalartifact : i think the most... And I keep being struck by the fact that the play only works if the entire audience is so used to the idea that a female character would literally only speak to the main male character for the entire length of a narrative. via Pocket

Peruvian Americans Peruvian Americans (Spanish: peruano-americanos, norteamericanos de origen peruano or estadounidenses de origen peruano) are Americans of Peruvian descent. via Pocket

Wearing Hijabs and Ninja Costumes, Egypt's Geeks Balance Passion for Manga With Islam CAIRO - A throng of young Egyptians gathers excitedly near Tahrir Square. Many carry large, sword-shaped parcels and strangely shaped packages. via Pocket

A Brief History of Peruvian Immigration to the United States The first Peruvian immigrant communities in the United States were established in New York and New Jersey during the first wave of immigration in the 1910s and 1920s. via Pocket

“Where’s My Cut?”: On Unpaid Emotional Labor Jess Zimmerman’s previous work for The Toast can be found here. I am not a big fan of psychic charlatanry, which often preys on people who are in genuine grief. via Pocket

Showing Up: The Single Most Important Thing a Friend Can Do As an advice columnist, I receive a lot of letters from people about the trouble they have making and keeping friends as adults. via Pocket

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Willow & Tara and Doors Thanks to the folks over at Whedonesque for the link! My blog has actually migrated, so if you'd like to leave a comment you can do so over here. Of all the relationships on Buffy, Willow and Tara's feels the most separated from the goings-on of the other Scoobies. via Pocket

Dear White Writers, Yes We Need Diverse Books. But that doesn’t always mean that we want YOU to write them. No, it means we want you to support them. We want you to read them. We want you to promote them, talk about them, buy them, love them. via Pocket

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