There is this one book about a young boy who went to heaven and then awoke from a coma, only the heaven part was made up and at The Guardian, Michelle Dean has a really fascinating, in depth look at what went wrong.
Tracee Ellis Ross is hilarious and this interview with Jenna Wortham is worth some of your time this morning. I wholeheartedly embrace her stance on Spanx and other means of cruelly controlling women’s beautiful bodies. (And yes, now several people will say that it helps create a smooth line and so on and I embrace you too.)
Here’s another great interview, this time with Bjork, and questions from Jessica Hopper.
Target, continuing their general excellence and hellbent mission of parting us from our hard-earned money, is launching a fashion line for plus-sized ladies.
AVA & VIV will feature fun, flirty clothes that any woman, regardless of size, will want to wear. It also pulls inspiration from some of the most powerful voices and faces of the plus-size movement: Nicolette Mason, Gabi Gregg, and Chastity Garner.
Only click this if you can see images that are NSFW and also prepare yourself. Fashion? Fashion!
Have you ever wondered how historical figures filled their days? Of course you have.
The picture in this tweet is very funny.
If you want to watch Transparent and you don’t have an Amazon Prime membership, it will be available to stream for free this weekend!
When I think of streams, I think of water.
Step aside, Barbie.
In Nigeria, Barbie has some fierce — some brown — competition: Taofick Okoya, a 43-year-old entrepreneur, has created Queens of Africa dolls and Naija Princess dolls that are outselling Mattel’s classics. Okoya tells Reuters that he sells about 6,000 to 9,000 dolls a month and that he has “about 10-15 percent of a small but fast-growing market.”
For some context, we’ve been seeing the alabasterness of dolls become more of an issue in America as of late, including this recent skit on Saturday Night Live. Last year, American Girl Doll discontinued some of its nonwhite dolls — Ivy Ling, an Asian-American doll, and Cecile Ray, an African-American doll — to much controversy. In 2013, Mattel came under fire for its Mexican Barbie, which was marketed with a passport and a chihuahua.
Happy Friday, friends.
