highlyeccentric | Links, occasional and various (Reply)

Behold, some links.

anneapocalypse (Nov 2019), The Internet has changed, and what that means. Fandom-focused but not, I think, exclusive to fandom in the dynamics it describes. Although as usual I think it slightly underestimates the capacity of Web 2.0 fandom spaces to generate toxic conflicts.

Elly Belle (Healthline), Codependency: how emotional neglect turns us into people-pleasers. I am trying to recall why I saved this article, other than that it's a good article, and perhaps it's because it's such a nice, balanced contrast to that piece that went around some years ago, for men who desperately need autonomy that argued the only route to secure attachment is, essentially, absolute over-investment. (I did not like that piece, and here is a blogger with similar dislike).

Jaclyn Adomeit (Electric Lit), Small Quarantine Joys and Setbacks, comic.

Poly.Land blog, The difference between no, but and yes, and. This is not about improv theatre, it's about pedantic communication.

CN Lester (The Photographer's Gallery), Being seen: on ways for talking about gender-nonconformity in archival material.

Aaron Robertson (LitHub), On Black pessimism and George Floyd. Links Toni Cade Barbera's novel about the Atlanta Murders of 1979-81 with current affairs.

Poly.Land blog, What is an askhole and how can you avoid being one?. An askhole seeks advice and then does the opposite. Paige thinks through some possible options for why people do that (*I* do that! Sometimes because the point of the advice asking was that when faced with a laid out plan I might realise it's Wrong; sometimes I deliberately ask people, eg, my mother, who I will probably disagree with because I benefit from knowing in what way I disagree with them now).

Clare Courbald (The Conversation Aus), The fury in US cities is rooted in a long history of racist policing violence and inequality. Headline is hardly new news, nor is the fact that focusing attention on condemning looting detracts from valid grievances. Courbald walks through a lot of demographic information and gives some key perspectives on riots and looting - most of which I had heard of before but not all in the one place.

Rebecca Spang (LitHub), Why did so many restaurants stay open during the 1918 pandemic? Part of a much larger study on the history of restaurants, which I must read.

Trey Harris (200?, ibiblio.org), The case of the 500 mile email. An internet classic, worth revisiting.

Adolfo Aranjuez (Archer), Against gay conversion therapy: loving the "sinner". No new news, but I love Aranjuez' writing.

Francis Wade, interview with Judith Butler (The Nation), The Violence of Neglect. Has Judith Butler discovered clarity of expression? This is very good, both complex and clear.

AE Osworth, interview with Meredith Talusan (Guernica), I'm not brave. Some really interesting comments on tense and time in memoir, and Talusan's choice to refer to herself in the past using masculine markers and nouns.

Fatima Measham (Meanjin), No country for pretty horses: on the necessity of brumby culls.

Hannah Reich (ABC Arts), Stolen Generations survivor Sandra Hill turned to art to tell her story. The artworks depicted are *phenomenal* in their use of colour and domestic interiority.

No byline, SMH (2003), Snowy Baker's low blow meant the end for Darcy. High intrigue surrounding the famous boxer and draft-dodger Les Darcy.

Houlbrook and Waters (History Workshop Journal, 62.1 (2006) 142-162), Heart in Exile: Detatchment and Desire in 1950s London. I plan to read the novel this analyses - I only skimmed it but even from the abstract it seems to be doing a very good job of historicising and de-essentialising the category of 'gay' wrt to which The Heart In Exile is 'a gay novel'.

Yomi Adegoke (British Vogue), We need to rethink our pics-or-it-didn't-happen approach to activism.

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