Yesterday, author Maureen Johnson had a great idea. She tweeted “I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, “Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it…”
These images are so interesting and illuminating about how we gender books. It makes me realize my own bias (I would never, ever pick up Freedom if it had the girly cover).
Pie-charting the appalling gender imbalance of the literary world. Podcasting and academia don’t fare any better.
Fifty years later, “the problem that has no name” has both a name and numbers, but little seems to have changed.
This is so lamely true.
And I love pie charts.
(via mal-ya)
Sometimes, when I’m pulling books from the stacks I wave the books over my head like a sand person while walking them downstairs to send to other...
The CVS clerk complimented the Library’s film program while ringing up my box of tampons. When I was looking at apartments so many people said to...
Gonna miss this guy while I’m gone.
Take another picture of me and I will pee on everything you love.
Winston in the morning light
{Old School.}
my dog tried so hard to get out the door and go to chemo with my parents this morning. now she keeps looking at me sadly.
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