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August (08) assortment

Jeanette Winterson, from Written on the Body / Mary Oliver, from The Pond / poem titled An August Longing by Amber Khanzadeh / August by Taylor Swift.

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mournfulroses

Edgar Allan Poe, from Tamerlane & Other Poems of E. A. P.; “The Sleeper,”

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heavensghost

They are familiar things but I am a stranger now

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firstfullmoon

Sanna Wani, “Good morning, the sun in October”

[text ID: Good morning, the sun in October / makes the leaves look like they have been spun out of gold / and there are several kinds of hickory trees growing outside / my window. The bitternut is my favourite because from / far away the leaves look like moss but close up they look / like scales. When autumn light bleeds new colours / into things, or out of them, a garden snake will take a nap / on the warm wood of a branch and wake up as a frond / and ask, “When did I turn to gold?” / But remember. Sunbathing is important, especially this time of year, / and you can never lose a body or turn into anything you weren’t already.]

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tilthat

TIL that there is journalism equivalent to the Bechdel Test. An article about a female scientist fails the “Finkbeiner Test” if it mentions one of seven topics regarding her womanhood

via reddit.com

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The fact that she’s a woman

Her husband’s job

Her child-care arrangements

How she nurtures her underlings

How she was taken aback by the competitiveness in her field

How she’s such a role model for other women

How she’s the “first woman to…”

hedwig-dordt

Okay, one quote, and then you absolutely have to read the whole thing.

Still, the virtue of some rules in Aschwanden’s test is difficult to see at first. Take the rule of “no firsts.” In the comments section below her post for Last Word on Nothing, Finkbeiner explained that no sooner had she taken the vow to ignore gender, than she caught herself writing that the astronomer she was profiling was the first to win a certain award. After a reader urged her to stick to her pledge, she removed it.

“The fact that she’s the first woman to do that says a lot more about the prize-giving committee than it does about her,” Finkbeiner explained in our interview. “So if I were going to put that into a story, it would be a story about prejudice in that prize committee.”

It blew my mind, because she’s right. The fact that there’s some many firsts left is the result of bias in the committees NOT IN THE WORK WOMEN DO

milfmacbeth

There is plenty of need to write about gender issues, the two agreed, but the point is to do it right. In an email, Aschwanden wrote:

A lot of commenters have said, ‘But isn’t it sometimes ok to mention these things about a woman?’ And my answer is, yes. In some circumstances it’s perfectly fine. For instance, if you’re writing a story about sexism in science or about the gender gap in leadership roles in science or you’re writing about sex-related issues specifically. What’s not ok is to turn a story about a scientist’s professional life into one about her personal life or her gender roles. What’s especially problematic is to frame the story, ‘and the most remarkable thing is that she accomplished all of this while being a woman!’

seriously, go read the whole thing

PINK PONY CLUB 💗

“Spring is in full force! I do so love this season with its gentle, lemon light and the sense that all the world is awakening from a bad dream. The winter slush is gone, and it is too early for summer dust. One can actually walk, actually breathe.”

— Laura Purcell, from The Corset

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vampiremotif

Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail / Kristen Chang / Mabel, episode 7: The King in the Labyrinth

Brendan Lynch

on april

barbara kingsolver demon copperhead \\ sara teasdale a november night \\ fatima aamer bilal i mother it, the absence of her ii. i was hard to bear from the very start (via @ivynightshade) \\ anne carson the glass essay (via @petaltexturedskies) \\ raymond p. fischer an aged man remembers april \\ cyrus cassells \\ anton chekhov love \\ t.s eliot the waste land \\ michelle o'sullivan the flower and the frozen sea: "bespoke"

kofi

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