July 2, 2021
Dark Academia, Deconstructed.
Command Performance: Weird Anthology Podcasts!
Have the audio drama FPPs caused you to ask “but what about weird fiction anthologies? Why do you hate anthologies so much?” Despite 200 episodes of the Magnus Archives , which is, if we are honest, an anthology show with a very robust frame, here is a selection of weird fiction anthology podcasts to while away your hours while waiting for that vaccination. [more inside]
All the right words on climate have already been said
Sarah Miller writes on climate change, two years after her essay "Heaven or High Water" about selling real estate in Miami:
What then? What would happen then? Would people be “more aware” about climate change? It’s 109 degrees in Portland right now. It’s been over 130 degrees in Baghdad several times. What kind of awareness quotient are we looking for? What more about climate change does anyone need to know? What else is there to say?Previously.
"This Settlement is a Start"
Boy Scouts reach $850 million settlement with tens of thousands of sexual abuse victims [NBC, content warning, child sexual abuse] [more inside]
“Isn’t that a little deceitful?”
Deadline for Democracy
Between June 28 and July 10, Deadline for Democracy is encouraging US voters to help get the For the People Act passed by putting pressure on politicians. "Together, we can ensure Americans can safely and freely cast our ballots so that every voice is heard and our elections reflect the will of the people. But every day, we get closer to a very real deadline to take action to pass the For the People Act." Over 80 organizations launched Deadline For Democracy, "a cross-movement mobilization plan for the July Recess to demand lawmakers act urgently to defend democracy and pass the For the People Act by August." The need to protect voting rights became all the greater with yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that Arizona's restrictive state voting law is A-OK.
Three ways to make academic writing more accessible to general readers
Joseph Reagle briefly makes three recommendations for writers of academic books "wishing to reach a wider audience and transcend common academic conventions and weaknesses": "balancing metadiscourse, pruning names, and sharpening theses".
dispatches from the outer edges of sanity
I Learned How to Cope with Agoraphobia. The Pandemic Eroded It All – Talia Lavin (previously) writes for Vice about having to "face the crippling fears I avoided for more than a year" as the country reopens for “Hot Vax Summer”
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