The epicenter of “how to be hot according to a very slim and expensive set of standards” discourse / dogma has shifted from women’s magazines to Reddit.
In the Pursuit of Hotnes, by Michelle Santiago Cortes for The Cut, April 2022 Also it’s great to see that reading has become more popular in recent years! One thing I had never before considered is the fact that trucks delivering big orders of books to Barnes & Noble enables those trucks to also deliver to independent bookstores that have smaller orders. Harris for The New York Times Magazine, April 2022 How Barnes and Noble Went From Villain to Hero, by Elizabeth A. I’m sure I’ve said this before, but it’s consistently remarkable to me how many stories exist of children being tortured, neglected and abused by their families (e.g., the Turpins!!!) and yet nothing is done by CPS AND how many stories like this exist, where children are taken away from their families by CPS without any evidence of neglect. The title of this feature is inspired by the title of Emily Gould’s tumblr, Things I Ate That I Love.Ī Father’s Yearslong Struggle to Regain Custody of His Son, by Petra Bartosiewicz for New York Magazine, March 2022
HELLO and welcome to the 326th installment of Things I Read That I Love, wherein I share with you some of the longer-form journalism/essays I’ve read recently so that you can know more about Starbucks!! This “column” is less feminist/queer focused than the rest of the site because when something is feminist/queer focused, I put it on the rest of the site.