1. Author Darcie Little Badger talked about being a debut author in a pandemic and adding to the expanding canon of Native American fiction.
2. I was looking up something else and ran into this summer piece about the "Golden Girls" episode with the mudpacks, and how rewatching reveals so much more rape culture and racism than just the mudpacks. I completed my full rewatch of "Designing Woman", where I found similar things, and also some gay panic and some transphobia. There were moments it was worth revisiting, but a lot of what it told me was that the sitcom mentality of folks being terrible for 22 minutes to come together in harmony in the end is perhaps left in the past. Also, that link contains discussion of a rape that is baked into the backstory of one Golden Girl. RAINN has resources for both victims of sexual assault and those seeking to support them. Hotline here: National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE and online.rainn.org)
3. I caught up to this Blair Braverman piece about how some of the lessons of sled dogs can apply to pandemic life.
