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.
Around FtB
- Did I just get a letter from President Obama?–“Is this a real letter? You decide! All the evidence you need is right here in this very post!”
- “Interpath” — An Alternative to “Interfaith”?–“And the word ‘interfaith’ often gets used against us, in a ‘damned if we do/ damned if we don’t’ way.”
- On Shaming People Online “For Their Own Good’–“We’ll punish you for putting photos of yourself online because it’s a stupid thing to do. Putting photos of yourself online is a stupid thing to do because we’ll punish you for it.”
- Girls, boys and gangs: beyond villain and victim–“This is one of those stories that seems to surface every few months and is reported every time as a shocking, scandalous new exposé.”
- Little dresses wouldn’t be practical–“Ok we allow women to do most things now, in Our Great Mercy, but there are limits.”
The Wider Web
- Journalists’ and activists’ strange approach to low-wage workers–“I say ‘you’ deliberately here, because much of the writing about low-wage workers tends to obscure just that fact — that these stories could well be about you.”
- Ida B. Wells, Feminist Public Menace–“Despite her challenges to the American criminal justice system, her long record of publication at home and abroad, and her influence on Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. DuBois (both of whom were ambivalent if not threatened by her single-mindedness), Wells’ legacy remains undervalued.”
- Black Pathology And The Closing Of The Progressive Mind–“I have spent the past two days searching for an era when black culture could be said to be ‘independent’ of white supremacy. I have not found one.”
- Unpaid Internships Must Be Destroyed–“File your lawsuit today!”
- Hey, Nobel Committee, Don’t Leave Yet Another Deserving Lady Out–“Let’s face it: the Nobel committee has a history of snubbing the women behind humanity’s most breathtaking discoveries.”
- Hobby Lobby Resources–“We’d like to help clear some of this up. It’s too important to be muddied by fast talking and political-speak.”
- How to Check Your Privilege in 5 Excruciating Steps–“Yet checking one’s privilege is an opaque concept to many, and difficult for us all to achieve. How exactly, do you ‘check your privilege?’ What does the process involve?”
- Chocobo/Kodachrome–“To the tune of KODACHROME, and with apologies to Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, and Square Enix, I present, CHOCOBO.”
- New York Abortion Access Fund: Spare Us Your Boehner — Adam Lee–“Most of all, I’m bowling because I trust women.”
- Ten Great Military Leaders, Probably Cranky Ones–“It’s not that Boudicca isn’t an iconic figure. She is … What she isn’t is a great military leader.”
- How I Realized Black & Latino Men Can Make Guns With Their Minds–“As far the conversation is concerned, guns do not exist before they enter the hands of youths of color.”
- Apostle Islands National Lakeshore – Winter 2014 (YouTube)–“Wherein I speak into the wind.”
- School Tells Eight-Year-Old She Isn’t Girly Enough–“You’re probably aware that Timberlake Christian School is a religious, Bible believing institution providing education in a distinctly Christian environment.”