Tag: Rebecca Solnit

• Reading angry women

  “I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger … for most of my life.” – Audre Lord “Once upon a time / I had enough anger in me to crack crystal” – Kiki Petrosino “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / […]

  Shannon Turlington

  August 1, 2018

  Notebook, Reading

  A Room of One’s Own, Anger, Angry women, Audre Lord, Bad Feminist, Carmen Maria Machado, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Claire Messud, Come Closer, Feminist fiction, Her Body and Other Parties, Jean Rhy, Joanna Russ, July 2018, Kiki Petrosino, Laurie Penny, Leslie Jamison, Margaret Atwood, Men Explain Things to Me, metoo, Naomi Alderman, NNedi Okorafor, Quotes, Reading list, Rebecca Solnit, Recommended Reading, Roxane Gay, Sara Gran, Sylvia Plath, The Female Man, The Power, The Robber Bride, The Woman Upstairs, The Yellow Wallpaper, Virginia Woolf, Who Fears Death, Wide Sargasso Sea, Women, Women writers

• Great writing for weekend reading…

  Here’s a roundup of great writing found on the Internet in recent days… If you are squee-ing over the return of The X-Files like I am: The Nostalgic Science Fiction of The X-Files (Joshua Rothman @ The New Yorker) This Is the Hollowed-Out World that Outrage Culture Has Created (Ryan Holiday @ Observer) How to Raise a Creative Child. Step […]

  Shannon Turlington

  February 12, 2016

  Notebook

  Adam Grant, Creativity, Erasure, Joshua Rothman, Literary Hub, New Yorker, Observer, Outrage culture, Parul Sehgal, Rebecca Solnit, Ryan Holiday, Subvert the dominant paradigm, Women, X-Files

• Subvert the dominant paradigm: link roundup

  Here’s a roundup of online reading I’ve been doing lately around issues fo diversity, gender equality, and culture change. Enjoy! Why gender equality is good for everyone — a very interesting TED talk by Michael Kimmel. Twofer from the New York Times this Sunday — when can women stop looking perfect? (hint: now) and it’s payback time […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 11, 2016

  Notebook

  Angry White Men, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Atlantic, Basic guaranteed income, Brigid Schulte, Conference panels, Daily Life, Diversity, Emma Paling, Feminism, Gender equality, Harper’s, Huffington Post, Jennifer Weiner, Judith Shulevitz, Lauren Bacon, Laurie Penny, Michael Kimmel, Motherhood, New Stateman, Normalizing, Pinup calendars, Quartz, Rebecca Solnit, Sexism, Shonda Rhimes, Star Wars, Subvert the dominant paradigm, TED Talks, Television, The Guardian, Wikipedia, Women, Work

• Links for readers…

  Happy new year! I have decided that 2016 is the year of not giving a fuck. And yes, there is a book for that. Here’s a fresh roundup of links for your reading pleasure. Those books that we buy and then pile up on our shelves, unread? There is a word for that. Rebecca Solnit, […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 10, 2016

  Notebook

  Ann Morgan, Fantasy, Giving no f*cks, Literary Hub, NK Jemison, Not giving a fuck, Open Culture, Reader’s Corner, Reading, Reading the world, Rebecca Solnit, Science fiction, TED, Words

• Popular Books Read and Unread in 2015

  I like to track my reading in multiple ways, for which I use the various OCD tracking tools on LibraryThing. One way is to track what I read during the year as compared to what others were reading during the same period (here’s the list). It interests me to see what trends emerge. Here are […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 5, 2016

  Reading

  Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie, Annihilation, Best of 2015, Book of Strange New Things, Dept. of Speculation, Emily St. John Mandel, Jeff VanderMeer, Jenny Offill, Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo, Men Explain Things to Me, Michel Faber, Popular books, Reading, Rebecca Solnit, Station Eleven

• Rebecca Solnit, fast becoming my new hero

  Rebecca Solnit on books no woman should read: “The list made me think there should be another, with some of the same books, called 80 Books No Woman Should Read, though of course I believe everyone should read anything they want. I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly […]

  Shannon Turlington

  December 7, 2015

  Notebook

  Masculinity, Reader’s Corner, Reading, Rebecca Solnit, Women

• Recommended Reading: Men Explain Things to Me

  You may think Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit’s short collection of essays (including the one that helped spawn the term “man-splaining”), is necessary reading for women, and you’d be right. But it’s also a great read for all creative types. When I first started reading these essays, I felt angry. That’s okay; I’m used […]

  Shannon Turlington

  October 14, 2015

  Reading

  Creativity, Equality, Essays, Feminism, Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit, Women