- I recently read a book by Francine du Plessix Gray for the first time, and have become slightly fascinated by her. He mother was Russian, her father was French, and she and her mother immigrated to the US in 1940. Here’s her obituary from January 2019, and here’s an interview with her from the 1980s in the Paris Review.
- Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Yes. The answer is yes.)
- A Climate Dystopia in Northern California (topic whiplash!) This is a super-in-depth look at how more fires in California causes more homelessness, and in a system unequipped to deal with that homelessness, that’s just not good (to put it mildly).
- The Perfect Gift for Moms: Money. I have, on my mental get-around-to-reading-someday list, a tract about why government/society should pay all caretakers for all people.
- The Sexist Backlash to Universal Day Care.