Starting off our smut discussions with a presentation from Corinne Matthews and Ayanni Cooper on the challenges of studying smut in the academy, and their "semi-scholarly" smut podcast, "Sex. Love. Literature." www.sexlovelitpodcast.com

actual feminists stood with the lady-ghouls of Fox News in their lawsuit because even evil women don't deserve to be sexually harassed in their evil workplaces and all women are harmed when we let that shit slide, but boy that experience sure didn't change any of them as people, did it

Anyway, if we want elected government officials whose job it is to be a good government officials without other priorities, they need to make enough money from doing so to not also need a side gig!

The rest of the officials all have generational wealth or other (mostly symbolic) jobs. Not taking their small government salary means nothing to them. For her, it means having to pick up part time work or not being able to pay her rent. It becomes a whole thing.

There‘s a plot point where the city council votes to abstain from taking their salaries until they can pass a vote on a particular issue. However, she’s the only person actually depending on that salary to live.

I’m thinking about it!

One of the hallmark qualities of YA literature is in its ontology of meaning. Teens are interested in stories that matter. They care about big questions – questions about morality,
meaning, identity, questions of existential urgency.

The best covers seem to recognise this.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

I also get into how readers respond to this sequence in the comments, especially when it comes to their understandings of how consent is working, which is one of the super interesting affordances of Webtoon

Great thread! I actually have a recent article out in Feminist Formations on how this sequence in Lore Olympus can help complicate understandings of consent and acquaintance rape, which you can find here if you’re interested: muse.jhu.edu/article/962234

I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078

There are about six answers to this.

1. The clothing in the Regency is not fugly, and much of the Victorian era clothing is. THE SLEEVES. *shudders* I say this as someone who writes in the Victorian era.