Candor Continued: Celebrations, Frustrated Sighs

A month where I got a little older (happy birthday to me!) and where toxic masculinity just flung itself all over the place...


Anita Hill continues to eloquently speak truth to power even though she probably wants to bust car windows and say: "Y'all back on this admitting lying sexual predators onto the Supreme Court fuckshit again?"

In Sometimes I Hate My State News: Hillary Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Friedan, and Helen Keller are deemed "unnecessary" for Texas school books because well, it's just not 1812 enough for some people.

How to write a great sentence according to Joe Moran

Rebecca Solnit explores the storytellers of gender narratives and the gross entitlement of white men, while Megan Garber wonders if we'll ever get past the "boys will be boys" narrative in the time of #KavaNope

Blackballing and bigotry: the price for being a 'cocky' Black woman

I'm in good company with these 25 writers who dish about the agony (and defeat) of writer's block

The traditions of Audre Lorde reside in US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith 

So we're still calling Joyce Maynard an "opportunist" for her relationship with J.D. Salinger? *eyeroll*

Thirty, Flirty & Thriving: Roald Dahl's telekinetic bibliophile (and my first literary she-ro), Matilda Wormwood turned 30 this year, and book's illustrator Quentin Blake imagines what she'd be up to today.


Let me know what were your favorite reads of the month!