A Girl After The Stars

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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TV Executives: “if the strike goes on, you won’t get new episodes of your favorite shows! You won’t get new movies you were looking forward to! Isn’t that terrible, what the writers are doing to you?”


Me: Bitch, that might have been an effective threat in 2007, but we have since survived a Covid shutdown and discovered ways to amuse ourselves while we waited, we can outwait this shit, too. I got a pile of shows saved I haven’t even watched yet, and a Mt. TBR waiting for me.

Compensate (and respect) your writers for their work, assholes.

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And the thot plickens….

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HOLY FUCK

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SAG-AFTRA = Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

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More info:

- The actors walk off at the end of June if the studios don’t sit down with the writers

- Rumor is directors will follow. This will grind everything to a halt.

- Nobody is asking for a boycott. Neil Gaiman has pointed out that making Good Omens S2 a huge hit actually puts more pressure on Amazon to negotiate with the writers

- This implies it’s okay to catch up on old streaming content without breaking the line too

- This is a screenwriter strike; books will keep coming out.

- Movies already made will keep coming out for months. Again, actors have not called for a boycott; you aren’t breaking the line if you go see a movie.

- I don’t know where this puts podcasts but none of them have studio funding or platforms so they’ll probably keep going.

- Substack/Tumblr book club are all public domain works and will keep going. In addition to Dracula Daily there’s Whale Weekly, Dickens Daily, My Dear Wormwood (The Screwtape Letters), Letters from Watson (Sherlock Holmes) and more.

- Your local library always needs love. With the Libby app you don’t even need to physically go there.

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i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

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brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad

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OP this is EXCELLENT

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Now THAT’S a self care resource! If you’ve gotten distracted by capitalism’s appropriation of “self-care” and watering the meaning down to nothing this is a super helpful guide to cut through the bullshit.

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queerasfact: “Black History Month: Audre LordeA self-identified “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, Audre Lorde explored the intersections of these identities in all of her work. Her writing include critiques of heterosexual white feminism,...
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Black History Month: Audre Lorde

A self-identified “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, Audre Lorde explored the intersections of these identities in all of her work.

Her writing include critiques of heterosexual white feminism, explorations of power in women’s erotic pleasure, and the famous essay “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”.

Not only was Audre a powerful writer in poetry, prose and academia, she also dedicated herself to amplifying the voices of other women of colour. Along with several other writers of colour, Audre founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, a publishing house dedicated to giving an audience to the writings of feminists of colour.

Over the course of her life, she travelled from Mexico to Benin to Germany, raised two children along with Frances Clayton, her partner of over twenty years, and finally settled on the Caribbean island of St. Croix, where she spent her last few years with partner Gloria Joseph.

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[Image:  photograph of Audre Lorde next to blackboard which reads “Women are powerful and dangerous”]