Culture

An imaginary map of Gayside, Newfoundland, from the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives. The name of the town was changed to “Baytona” in 1985.

Alice Bradley, an author of multiple things, on gender harassment and age: “To be a young woman in our culture means that you exist, from an alarmingly young age, for the appreciation of others. Therefore, your every feature is fair game for public appraisal.” Also: “There were other incidents, too; so many incidents. Every one…Read More

Brian Kesinger, a story artist at Disney, has a series of awesome steampunk drawings done in watercolour, tea, and ink.

Medusa, by Charmaine Olivia.

“The genius of the great American newspapers used to be their comprehensiveness, their ability to print reviews of T.S. Eliot alongside Family Circle cartoons, to ply sensationalist murder stories and have a Hong Kong bureau tracking economic and political trends, to cover hokum and science. The understanding was that 1,000 flowers should bloom, that the…Read More

The University of Oxford Style Guide has dropped Oxford commas. It’s a dark day. “As a general rule, do not use the serial/Oxford comma: so write ‘a, b and c’ not ‘a, b, and c’. But when a comma would assist in the meaning of the sentence or helps to resolve ambiguity, it can be…Read More

“You can hit the highlights, and you can specialize enough to become knowledgeable in some things, but most of what’s out there, you’ll have to ignore. [...] You simply have no chance of seeing even most of what exists. Statistically speaking, you will die having missed almost everything.”