EVERYONE: go back and read Bend It Like Beckham: A Celebration! Some weird file thing cut out the second half of the piece, and I have now restored it, and it’s beautiful and you need to read it and share it on all your social media accounts.
Downton Abbey pick-up lines:
Jaya explores 19th century American attempts at Indian cuisine, with surprisingly pleasant results.
Ta-Nehisi “Kindly Genius” Coates on Melissa Harris-Perry, and what it means to be a public intellectual:
This began because I claimed that Melissa Harris-Perry is “America’s foremost public intellectual.” I made this claim because of Harris-Perry’s background: Ph.D. from Duke; stints at Princeton and Tulane; the youngest woman to deliver the Du Bois lecture at Harvard; author of two books; trustee at the Century Foundation. I made this claim because of her work: I believe Harris-Perry to be among the sharpest interlocutors of this historic era—the era of the first black president—and none of those interlocutors communicate to a larger public, and in a more original way, than Harris-Perry.
I don’t know how I feel about this yet, but it’s very thoughtfully and carefully written and we should read it.
Meryl and Emma forever.
In September this year, I woke up to an excellent dick pic (SFW, illustrated only with an eggplant.)
For all the bittersweet lols, check out #NYTwomensobits:
Eleanor Roosevelt, author of angel food cake with pink clouds recipe, dead at 78. #NYTwomensobits
— Noah McCormack (@noahmccormack) January 8, 2014
Rookie, on aggravating grown-ass men talking about teenage girls:
I know I have a vested interest in this whole thing because I’m an aspiring cultural critic and a current young woman, but I think I speak for all girls and women between the ages of 13 and 19 when I say that grown-up male journalists are probably not the best choice to assign stories about teen-girl culture to (keeping in mind those aforementioned exceptions). What they come up with, too much of the time, is a lot of off-base and frankly clueless speculation about what girls think, what we do, what we want, and what we need.
