Thursday Links

John Green, author, vlogger, and lover of the interrobang, is about to publish his new novel, The Fault in Our Stars. Hear him read the first chapter here.

Laurie Penny’s musing on self presentation and consumerism, and what it means to “smarten up” as she puts it, is fantastic, and you should all read it.

This article on the state of sex education in New York high schools is depressing. But the author is 17, and that’s awesome.

Pacific Rain executes a tremendous Anthropologie knock off and creates some gorgeous gold and quartz earrings.

Katie’s proud of the Girl Scouts stand on transgendered children in her adopted home state.

Do you follow Laura Ingalls Wilder on Twitter?

Millie laughed so hard at this MS Paint music video for Look at Me Know she couldn’t breathe. Lyrics seriously NSFW.

This article about why the Oxfordian theory of Shakespeare’s authorship is bunk is fantastic.

Have a million dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Perhaps you should get a human slinky!

These are some serious braids.

Nature wants to eat you. True facts.

This is a long but very well written essay about the role of police in the Occupy movement.

Jess embroidered constellations on her cardigan and it is AWESOME!

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2 Responses to Thursday Links

  1. “You don’t have to be a truther or a birther to enjoy a conspiracy theory.” Amen to that!

  2. I love the Laurie Penny article – thank you for posting this!

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