I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.
- “In Defense of Finn/Poe“–“Online and off, good little queers don’t make any mention of same-sex romance or eroticism, and they certainly don’t hope out loud that two characters in a popular film turn out to be queer.”
- “Parents call the cops on teens distributing a banned book“–“When the police arrived they actually had no clue what they were doing there and decided to let the book distribution go as planned.”
- “Serotonin Neurotransmitter and Receptors, A Painting“–“As I mentioned in an earlier post, the role of serotonin in the treatment for depression is what has made this molecule famous, but it’s really only a fraction of the real story behind serotonin.”
- “The Art Of Being Okay“–“When your two basic emotional states are ‘at risk of self-harm’ and ‘not at risk’, fine is the best you can hope for. Fine is precious.”
- “FiveThirtyEight: The Number of Things Nate Silver Gets Wrong About Climate Change“–“That Nate would parrot Armstrong’s flawed arguments is a major disappointment, especially because there are some obvious red flags that even the most cursory research should have turned up.”
- “First Climate Article On Nate Silver’s Data Website Uses ‘Deeply Misleading’ Data, Top Climatologists Say“–“But just as Pielke’s article has been written before, so too it has been criticized before. Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth, a distinguished senior climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has criticized Pielke’s data for its simplistic nature.”
- “California Crisis Pregnancy Centers Dealt a Double Blow in Court“–“Operators of CPCs have said they’d rather close than comply with the state disclosure law.”
- “NYU Student Who Launched Accidental Anti-Rahm Rally Schedules a New One“–“Brown said she has no plans to stop making the joke Facebook posts, even though she said her parents are somewhat worried that their trash is going to stop getting picked up by the city.”
- “The Living Nightmare of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder“–“Her research found that the effects of chronic neglect, stress, and subjugation were creating an entire class of people—including survivors of sexual abuse and domestic abuse; persecuted racial, religious, and ethnic groups; and former hostages—whose trauma didn’t fit the profile for PTSD diagnoses because it had been sustained over time.”
- “Trans People Need Abortion Access, Too [Video w/ Transcription]“–“If I were to stop taking T at this point, I would be able to get pregnant again. I would be a trans person who might need access to abortion. My rights would be under attack just as much as those of cis women who are capable of getting pregnant.”
- “I Got Nothing, Y’all“–“All because our children, our black children, are never treated like children.”
- “Lies Grandma Told Us? Defending Our Oral Histories in the Age of Ancestry Testing“–“But it is more than aesthetic. It offers a sense of grounding and belonging to connect to a people who seem to have more history than us, even it is just one ancestor. That part of your heritage can be explained…supposedly.”
- “Meta-Stories“–“But of course, that’s true of all stories. The story of The Phantom Tollbooth is also the story of listening to my father read it aloud to me and my brother, and reveling in his pleasure in the story as much as my own. The story of The Godfather is also the story of my seventh-grade class passing it around to each other, whispering the page numbers of the dirty parts.”