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Jillian Keenan, one of my favorite writers, has a new book: Sex with Shakespeare. The blurb: When it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her—until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare’s language flowing through her blood for the first time. In Sex with Shakespeare, she tells the story …
As I watched the finale of Game of Thrones, I spent a lot of time thinking about sexualized shame. We’re in a kind of ongoing conversation about internet shame lately, with much of the drama focused on white people who feel really uncomfortable being taken to task by historically marginalized groups (people of color). The …
Did you read it? Did you laugh? This meme is all over my Facebook feed again this week, though it’s 2 years old. Over half a million people have liked the version on Takei’s page, tens of thousands sharing, and there are over 10,000 comments. The ones I saw were all positive, though I read …