Maybe I should just stop reading the "did you beat the bot" analysis in Wordle. I don't definitively know all the possible remaining answers when playing (as I am not a bot), so the logic it uses is not available to me (and teaches me nothing, while making me scream a little in my head).
I am gutted. Deborah Cameron died in January, but I just learned this now. Her work was central to helping me grasp the depths to which language reflects the ubiquitous misogyny in our society. She changed the way I speak and think. Rest in power, Dr. Cameron.
Ha. Glad to know it is not just me!!
Maybe I need more coffee, but I can't parse this, @ms.now
😲 This is THE most amazing thing I've seen this year. (And that's saying something!)
A ResistDance retelling of ICE murdering Renee Good & Alex Pretti enacted through dance‼️😭
Performed by First Amendment Troop in DC. 🤍
IT FINALLY HAPPENED!! My pub day thoughts:
open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
#WritingCommunity #BookSky #AuthorSky
Please, please don't leverage misogyny when criticizing this person. (Or impugn children!) But "bitch" -- there are so many other ways to label his behavior; reach beyond this one.
Adam Kinzinger
An announcement from Publishers Marketplace stating that Nicole's debut novel, FAMILY LANGUAGE, will be published by Melville House in November 2026.
I am so excited to share this announcement about my novel FAMILY LANGUAGE, coming in November 2026. With enormous thanks to Michelle Capone, @melvillehouse.bsky.social, and especially @jennaschmenna.bsky.social!
So excited for this book!! (And I ❤️ Copperfield's!)
Jamboree and PCH. Not even Newport is a monolith.
*IVC
I’m not a film buff. And the question is beside the point; the celebration of the montage (with its gross lack of diversity) is what I wanted to call out. The history of racism of the film industry is why your question is a problematic challenge. Do you have suggestions?
💯 Zero women of color, pretty sure. The comments celebrating this montage — rather than seething at the very lopsided and tokenized representation — enrage me. Recognizing that the white male is nonsensically our default hero is the first step in fixing our inequality problem… we’re still not there.
Gender equality is evidently neither the dream not the reality. The patriarchy in this reel is depressing.
I am currently listening to this episode. “Thunderously stupid” in your opening monologue made me lol.
open.substack.com/pub/nicolene...
A look at two surprising sentences in Tom Crewe's recent short story.
Yellowface?
Go, Gillian (and Jenny)! 🥳
Adam Parkhomenko again. Different day, same soft misogyny.
Lucky me; safe, for sure.
If the media covered science as reverentially as it does religion, we'd all be better off.
Sing it, sister.
Love the episode title. Outstanding content — with one gripe. The ageist banter at the beginning, reinforcing the sexist idea that women should be coy about their age rather than confident in their experience, was a bummer. Please interrogate rather than amplify ageism in the future.
The writing direction of a culture can in fact impact how people map concepts like time and amount. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC....
Why did I press the wrong button on this hotel gym bike when I wanted more resistance? The button placement was counter-intuitive (for me).
Following a hunch, I checked where the company was based. Taiwan. In Taiwan, characters are written predominantly top to bottom and then *right to left*.
Fred Wellman writes Hegseth "can scream and cry like the little bitch he is..."
Another offender (although about Hegseth).
