Just a little (link) love: Current Events edition
August 8, 2019
Scans from “Integration is a Bitch” by Tom Floyd
Moriah Joy: The Privilege of Acting Poor but Getting Rich
Like Purple, I think about death a lot.
Tami has hit a particularly rough patch and it’s going income for some time. This is one of my personal nightmares – hitting such serious health issues I can’t work to pay our bills but I’ve been incredibly lucky so far. If you can help, I’m sure she’d appreciate it.
Whale accidentally ends up with mouthful of sea lion. (they’re both fine)
A thread on pitching editors that I think is also useful for cover letters and other related things.
Kindness Vs. Cruelty: Helping Kids Hear The Better Angels Of Their Nature
“We’re born with the wiring for both kindness and cruelty, so altruism is not inevitable. It’s a skill and a habit that we have the power — and responsibility — to foster, one good deed at a time.”
Four foundations pooled $30 million to save Ebony archives and donate them to the Smithsonian.
Over the years I’ve wondered why we didn’t move more towards a year round school, this article discusses the complications thereof: “It is easy to misconceive summer vacation as a simple product of agrarian needs rather than this more complicated story of demands for standardization, teacher professionalization, budget problems, lax attendance and fears of overburdening students. And this historical inaccuracy matters. The misperception leaves today’s reformers fighting the wrong battle, while conceding that the school calendar is something that deserves deference as if it was carefully constructed with best practices in mind.”
Thanks to tumblr for this gem
Thanks so much for the link love, friend. 🙂
You’re welcome!