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Sunday Linkfest!
A giant one. Some of these are like a month late. Sorry!
Saladin Ahmed on The Messengers, Monsters, and Moral Instructors of Islamic Literature
Muslimah Media Watch on an early feminist magazine, Kadinlar Dunyasi, and a review of Fatima Mernissi's THE FORGOTTEN QUEENS OF ISLAM. I really enjoyed Mernissi's SCHEHEREZADE GOES WEST in undergrad.
Also via MMW, WISE (Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality)'s mission statement
Jeannie Lin, author of historical romance BUTTERFLY SWORDS, its prequel THE TAMING OF MEI LIN, which I reviewed here, has a thing about alternate history, where she compares the Tang Dynasty in her books to the real one. Really neat!
Miriam Posner on Some basic things you should know about being in a Ph.D. program. Warnings they never give you during orientation week.
A review of AFRICA'S DISCOVERY OF EUROPE.
pulchritude and eccentricyoruba did these amazing posts on Chinese and Yoruba beauty ideals and compared how local celebrities measured up.
So there is new Android malware? It disguises itself as a Google+ app? and there is some other gobbledygook which I don't understand but apparently it can answer and record your phone calls for you.
Here is a conversation between Roberta Pearson and Alexis Lothian about different types of fannishness. Part One and Part Two. Alexis is editing the WisCon Chronicles 6 so I found it of some interest but I can't for the life of me figure out the crux of the conversation.
On Invisible Christian Privilege
NYT highlights Vietnamese heroine Vang Thi Mai, who took in victims of human trafficking, brought them into a textile co-op and turned the fortunes of an entire villege around. It's a pretty fucking amazing story.
Anna's inaugural post of a series bitching about how shitty the TTC is with being accessible.
As if malware that records your phonecalls isn't bad enough, turns out malware can now exist in your hardware too. What's wrong with this world?
I know we all hate Feministe, but this article about the erasure of women from Jewish discourse when they're specifically named in the Torah was pretty interesting.
Blue milk at Hoyden About on Madison Young's exhibition on breastfeeding. I know, it's late, but still relevant, because wasn't there that one photographer guy who forced his young daughters to participate in some sort of docu of them growing up? And there was definitely some creepy sexualizing going on there by the father. And the daughters, now grown women, aren't allowed to take control of the material. Makes me wonder about how people are reacting to Young's exhibition, if there isn't some sort of double-standard involved here. Like, a great male artist can make a documentary of his daughters' body growth and his art will be kept "for posterity" but a female artist can't depict herself breastfeeding without being told she's being a shitty mom.
So in COWBOYS AND ALIENS (that movie), there's an Apache tribe. National Geographic has little quiz on Apache history.
zuky got some Anti-Racism 101 words for ya'll.
So, like, this author's e-book's cover was ripped off by Harper Collins. And turns out it was just a work-in-progress not the final. But as it turns out Harper Collins HAD approached the artist for the cover, she said no, and then they proceeded to put in work copying it. Only to pull it off anyway.
Starship Reckless on the myth of alpha malehood in humans.
How France lives off Africa with the Colonial Pact.
PublishAmerica.com has a new scam: they'll introduce your book to famous people instead!
Here is a linkspam with a challenge: Talk to me Some more About How Women are always Lying abour Rape
"White" is a sci-fi short film by A. Sayeeda Clark and it is available online!
Emily has a post on a negative aspect of the sex-positive movement which can lead to shaming asexuals or people who plain don't like sex for their own reasons.
Dear Sugar gives a graduation speech.
Michelle Bachmann hired a dude who supported Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill and who has been in jail a couple of times.
Two Trees, a small press in Singpore, has a steampunk anthology coming out.
Holly of The Pervocracy on being a survivor.
Her family hired me as a maid for 12 years but then she stole my life and made it a Disney movie -- Abilene Cooper, Kathryn Stockett's inspiration for THE HELP, tells her story.
Good Men Project: I Prefer My Racism Straight Up, Thank You
Because the universe couldn't get any worse: Arizona To Charge People To See Incarcerated Family or Friends.
And because the universe really couldn't get any worse: Israeli Soldiers Posting Facebook Pictures of them humiliating Palestinians. Because the military is a great time.
Laotian-American writer Bryan Thao Worra contemplates Laotian steampunk.
A comparative analysis of the Mulan poem and the Disney Mulan movie.
If you're a Filipino/a book blogger, and want to participate in a book tour (wherein a book goes from reader to reader), check this out! Marvellous idea!
Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating
Why The Arabic World Turned Away From Science. And it has more to do with kyriarchal shit than the inferiority of the Arabs.
Danny Glover's Haiti film lacked 'white heroes', producers said. Let this fact, that financiers told this famous man that his movie about a black man wouldn't do well because it got no white heroes, sink in a moment.
American-Indian Netroots: American Deception in California
Racialicious: Citibank's Racebending Ad Campaign conveniently cuts out the Asian MIT students who actually did that.
Saladin Ahmed on The Messengers, Monsters, and Moral Instructors of Islamic Literature
Muslimah Media Watch on an early feminist magazine, Kadinlar Dunyasi, and a review of Fatima Mernissi's THE FORGOTTEN QUEENS OF ISLAM. I really enjoyed Mernissi's SCHEHEREZADE GOES WEST in undergrad.
Also via MMW, WISE (Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality)'s mission statement
Jeannie Lin, author of historical romance BUTTERFLY SWORDS, its prequel THE TAMING OF MEI LIN, which I reviewed here, has a thing about alternate history, where she compares the Tang Dynasty in her books to the real one. Really neat!
Miriam Posner on Some basic things you should know about being in a Ph.D. program. Warnings they never give you during orientation week.
A review of AFRICA'S DISCOVERY OF EUROPE.
pulchritude and eccentricyoruba did these amazing posts on Chinese and Yoruba beauty ideals and compared how local celebrities measured up.
So there is new Android malware? It disguises itself as a Google+ app? and there is some other gobbledygook which I don't understand but apparently it can answer and record your phone calls for you.
Here is a conversation between Roberta Pearson and Alexis Lothian about different types of fannishness. Part One and Part Two. Alexis is editing the WisCon Chronicles 6 so I found it of some interest but I can't for the life of me figure out the crux of the conversation.
On Invisible Christian Privilege
NYT highlights Vietnamese heroine Vang Thi Mai, who took in victims of human trafficking, brought them into a textile co-op and turned the fortunes of an entire villege around. It's a pretty fucking amazing story.
Anna's inaugural post of a series bitching about how shitty the TTC is with being accessible.
As if malware that records your phonecalls isn't bad enough, turns out malware can now exist in your hardware too. What's wrong with this world?
I know we all hate Feministe, but this article about the erasure of women from Jewish discourse when they're specifically named in the Torah was pretty interesting.
Blue milk at Hoyden About on Madison Young's exhibition on breastfeeding. I know, it's late, but still relevant, because wasn't there that one photographer guy who forced his young daughters to participate in some sort of docu of them growing up? And there was definitely some creepy sexualizing going on there by the father. And the daughters, now grown women, aren't allowed to take control of the material. Makes me wonder about how people are reacting to Young's exhibition, if there isn't some sort of double-standard involved here. Like, a great male artist can make a documentary of his daughters' body growth and his art will be kept "for posterity" but a female artist can't depict herself breastfeeding without being told she's being a shitty mom.
So in COWBOYS AND ALIENS (that movie), there's an Apache tribe. National Geographic has little quiz on Apache history.
zuky got some Anti-Racism 101 words for ya'll.
So, like, this author's e-book's cover was ripped off by Harper Collins. And turns out it was just a work-in-progress not the final. But as it turns out Harper Collins HAD approached the artist for the cover, she said no, and then they proceeded to put in work copying it. Only to pull it off anyway.
Starship Reckless on the myth of alpha malehood in humans.
How France lives off Africa with the Colonial Pact.
PublishAmerica.com has a new scam: they'll introduce your book to famous people instead!
Here is a linkspam with a challenge: Talk to me Some more About How Women are always Lying abour Rape
"White" is a sci-fi short film by A. Sayeeda Clark and it is available online!
Emily has a post on a negative aspect of the sex-positive movement which can lead to shaming asexuals or people who plain don't like sex for their own reasons.
Dear Sugar gives a graduation speech.
Michelle Bachmann hired a dude who supported Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill and who has been in jail a couple of times.
Two Trees, a small press in Singpore, has a steampunk anthology coming out.
Holly of The Pervocracy on being a survivor.
Her family hired me as a maid for 12 years but then she stole my life and made it a Disney movie -- Abilene Cooper, Kathryn Stockett's inspiration for THE HELP, tells her story.
Good Men Project: I Prefer My Racism Straight Up, Thank You
Because the universe couldn't get any worse: Arizona To Charge People To See Incarcerated Family or Friends.
And because the universe really couldn't get any worse: Israeli Soldiers Posting Facebook Pictures of them humiliating Palestinians. Because the military is a great time.
Laotian-American writer Bryan Thao Worra contemplates Laotian steampunk.
A comparative analysis of the Mulan poem and the Disney Mulan movie.
If you're a Filipino/a book blogger, and want to participate in a book tour (wherein a book goes from reader to reader), check this out! Marvellous idea!
Death Threats and Hate Crimes, Attacks On Women Bloggers Escalating
Why The Arabic World Turned Away From Science. And it has more to do with kyriarchal shit than the inferiority of the Arabs.
Danny Glover's Haiti film lacked 'white heroes', producers said. Let this fact, that financiers told this famous man that his movie about a black man wouldn't do well because it got no white heroes, sink in a moment.
American-Indian Netroots: American Deception in California
Racialicious: Citibank's Racebending Ad Campaign conveniently cuts out the Asian MIT students who actually did that.