This week, Caitlyn Jenner’s Vanity Fair cover brought important responses from Laverne Cox and Janet Mock, among others. And the conversation continued with the hashtag #MyVanityFairCover.
The Lambda Literary Awards announced its 2015 winners this week. Congrats to all the winners and honorees!
And speaking of awards, a study by novelist Nicola Griffith shows that women fiction writers are more likely to win awards when their protagonist is a man, and “the more prestigious the award, the more likely the subject of the narrative will be male.”
Sara Seinberg writes about women and aging in “Crone Apprentice Realness:”
“We will talk about our bodies. We will let them change. We will try to hold as much excitement about our bodies changing as we did when we were teenagers sneaking cigarettes and waiting to learn how to use sex to our advantage. I mean, that’s what I did. And I want us to stay curious. I want us to do the punkest rock thing there is to do for women today: to age.”
Ursula K. Le Guin keeps asking us not to buy books from Amazon.
An interesting piece on secrecy and tampons: “Secrecy is a key element of the modern period—the existence of tampons and pads in the first place allows women to ‘pass as non-bleeders.’”
Sink Review Issue 14 is here, with poems and reviews by WEIRD SISTER writers Becca Klaver and Nina Puro, among other greats.
The very rad 33 1/3 series opened for proposal submissions this week.
Bloof announced the publication of the first volume of its new paperback chapbook compilation: BOUND: The First Array.
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments! <3
