Friday Links is a Small Business
Yes there will be a Wonder Woman movie. Still thinking through my thinks about this one. But it’s well overdue, so…
Hark! a Vagrant has updated this week with a great piece on the noir trope of the Femme Fatale.
Kameron Hurley has written some great pieces this week. Here, she talks about the importance for writers of treating themselves like a small business, and being cautious about the rights they sign away. She also addresses the recent Requires Hate controversy with a beautifully-constructed personal essay looking at the complexities and consequences of reinventing yourself on the internet.
Leigh Sales interviews Annabel Crabbe about her new book, The Wife Drought. It’s a lovely, casual piece between two women who obviously know each other very well and share strong feelings about how difficult it is to be a working mother. I particularly liked what Crabbe had to say about the different but equally unfair expectations placed upon men and women in the workforce once they start their families. I’ll be buying her book!
I’m not convinced that this Washington Post article is really “the only guide to GamerGate you’ll ever need” but it certainly works as a good starting point if you need to catch up. Since then, of course, things have become far worse, with Anita Sarkeesian recently cancelling a university appearance after a gun massacre was threatened. Sarkeesian made it clear to her public that she did not cancel the appearance purely because of the threat, but because security on campus was inadequate – and the Utah State laws would have allowed any member of the audience to carry concealed in the venue.
Finally, I’ve enjoyed Season 2 of the comedy-drama Please Like Me, with its sexual frankness, realistic humour and exploration of how mental health issues can affect everyday lives – here’s a Q&A between actor-creator Josh Thomas and his co-star, showing how alarmingly similar they are to the characters they play on the show. NSFW or indeed for watching with kids in the vicinity.
