Tag: feminism

  • Stuff worth reading

    “No Indian Friends” by Priya-Alika Elias I’m thinking of answers to questions that we’re embarrassed to ask, like why we’re so quick to describe ourselves as “white on the inside.” I’m thinking of answers we don’t have yet, ways we can tear the roots of internalized racism out of little brown kids. I’m thinking of Toni…

  • I’m in the process of fixing a weird bug in my blog (where some posts show as having no comments even though the comments are right freaking there) and that requires checking over a lot of my old posts. It’s kind of fun, amusing, weird, inspiring, and embarrassing all at once. Sometimes I wonder if I should go back and…

  • “Coding Like a Girl” It’s one kind of progress for people to agree with the statement “Women can be anything they want.” It combats a kind of sexism called oppositional sexism. But there’s another kind of sexism, traditional sexism, that we’ve made less progress on. You could get more people to agree that women can…

  • Stuff worth reading

    I’m well beyond the point where I believe that anyone else’s process can offer me a magic path to or through my own. But hearing about how other writers work can still be interesting, informative, and inspiring. In “Writer’s Block, Schmiter’s Block,” Marissa Meyer offers some really smart strategies to get yourself writing. Then, in “From Idea…

  • Uh oh, I just found the best rabbit hole. Great interview series w/ #YAlit authors over at @yalsa: http://t.co/X3MLv7qCQJ Goodbye, morning! — Kristan Hoffman (@kristanhoffman) September 10, 2014 Today I stumbled upon a treasure trove: the “One Thing Leads to Another” interview series at YALSA. Already the series has talked with some of my favorite…