Afternoon Snack

Good afternoon, POMEs! It’s another lovely Monday and we’re here with a lovely linkpost to help you coast through the next few hours. Here is some recommended reading to help you wile away another day of this, the spring of your finite youth.


Let’s wash our hands of 2016 right now — 2017 marks the start of the Magic Mike Las Vegas real live show. God bless you, Channing Tatum, for giving us this beautiful reason for a road trip.


Remember those cringeworthy new Frank Miller covers that have been circulating the internet making people uncomfortable? Artist James Harvey presents an alternate take / recoloring that might change your mind about them.

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Harvey’s recoloring (left) vs. DC’s original cover (right) — image via Tumblr


I don’t know what’s more exciting here — that Hulu is adapting Handmaid’s Tale, the feminist reproductive health dystopian classic of our collective Texas nightmares, or that Elizabeth Moss (AKA Peggy Olson of Mad Men fame) is playing the lead character. Either way, we’re pretty stoked to see how this series turns out.


Women: stop saying words. You’re only messing things up for yourself.

Sheryl Sandberg is leading a charge to ban the word bossy, stating: “When a little boy asserts himself, he’s called a ‘leader’. Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded ‘bossy’.” However the best thing to do whenever a child speaks up is to not call them anything at all. Just ignore them.

The Guardian has this handy cheat sheet to help you overcome your eventual linguistic downfall.


If you’re looking to get your daily dose of feminist history, the Today in (Feminist) History blog gives you insight into a different moment in feminist accomplishments every day.


A moment of recognition for the brave woman who stood up to all those Swedish Nazis last week:

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Image via Daily Mail


The Force Awakens. Jupiter Ascending. Mad Max: Fury Road. Foz Meadows’ Diversity: More Than White Women unites essentially every cool thing in pop culture right now in a compelling plea for broader representation in this new, increasingly-feminist genre fiction world we’re living in.


True hero Chuck Tingle (celebrated author of Conquered by Clippy) takes on Hugo Award trolls with with his (slightly revised) new novel, Slammed in the Butt by my Hugo Award Nomination. Tingle is a hero and an inspiration to all of us.


As the last human being on Earth to listen to Hamilton, CC would like to apologize to everyone whose recommendations she procrastinated on.

But also, if you love both Hamilton and Captain America: Civil War (Marvel’s newest addition to their cinematic universe), Linda Homes’ Captain America, Aaron Burr, And The Politics Of Killing Your Friends will probably keep you busy for the rest of the afternoon.

The easier answers are pride, custom, or, as some reads of the show would have it, Burr’s obstinacy. The harder answer, and the one the show supports, is that both felt they were in the right, both were flawed, and neither could find a way to stop. In fact, there’s a sequence in the Civil War book where a failed plan of Iron Man’s to avoid fighting Cap may remind you eerily of a line from the show explaining that proper dueling always involves a final effort at peacemaking, and it’s only in disastrous cases that it’s abandoned: “Most disputes die and no one shoots.”


Did you guys all go see Civil War this weekend? Do you have any other reading recommendations to help us sleepwalk through our working lives? Drop us a line in the comments!

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