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Surprise me View in browser July 13, 2018 Xavier Schipani    This week Thanks for all your nice notes about last week's no-news, all-books edition! I'm back in the shit this week: On the podcast, we discuss all matters fecal. Featuring the shit-stress/mind-body connection, a great interview with Dr. Susan Stryker about public toilets as staging sites for collective social anxieties, and some surprising stats. (Bet you didn't know that white men do the most pooping per week?) Anyway, give it a listen if you're interested in plumbing the depths of poo and gender. I'm reading Protest isn't civil. (And, remember, it's forbidden in Russia.) The Trump administration uses the language of domestic violence. The desert is as cruel as any cage. Pregnant women have been shackled and miscarried in immigration detention. How Canada successfully welcomes immigrants without triggering a populist backlash. How a shitty tech guy is cashing in on Trump's xenophobia. Cheers for the 14th Amendment! Who owns Uncle Ben?America's history of class denialism. The case for just giving people money—especially if they are experiencing homelessness. The con queen of Hollywood. Middle children are going extinct. Youngest-child Kylie Jenner is poised to become the youngest self-made billionaire ever. On the campaign trail with Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri. A letter from a parent on identifying and addressing sexual abuse. A chilling obit for Himmler's daughter, who always believed her Nazi father was a great man. A fascinating dispatch from Cairo's belly dancing scene, which features a lot of Eastern European women. A modern Muslim woman on escaping the taboos pressuring her from all sides. Goodbye, Roe. We need to talk about our abortions. How the 1990s shaped #MeToo, a movement that some say has gotten too broad and that men are definitely talking about in therapy. Annabella Sciorra and the other careers lost to harassment and abuse. Against the verb "to man." The man who invented the internet is sad about how it turned out. Some say we're living in the reputation age. But you don't have to live in public.    Members only Become a paying member for just $5/year. I'd love your support, and you'll get pie charts in return! Click here to see what they're all about. Today you're missing some quality feminist toilet humor. I'm looking & listening Hannah Gadsby's Nanette, which I don't think can accurately be called stand-up comedy, but should not be labeled "kind of like a TED Talk" either. I think it's a new form! The narrative keynote with no event. The two episodes of Still Processing in which Asian-Americans talk about racism. War poems. The history of curb cuts. Death, Sex, and Money on modern masculinity. GIFspiration from Elena Rossini's This Is What a Film Director Looks Like gif archive, which seeks to expand perceptions of who's behind the camera. I endorse Layla Saad's instagram account, where she's doing a series called #MeAndWhiteSupremacy. Here's an overview: "White folks: Time for some radical truth-telling about you and your complicity in white supremacy. Not those white people ‘out there’. Not white people as a collective. But you. Just you. We start tomorrow. 28 days of simple yet direct questions for you to share where you are at in your journey so far of understanding and owning your racism. This is not me educating you. This is you being honest about the work you have been doing so far, and how you have been internalising that work." I haven't been commenting on her posts, but I have been spending time with her questions and thinking about my personal answers. She has created a pretty radical experiment in taking high-level, academic-sounding concepts and pushing people to ground them in their own thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It's structural and political, yeah, but it's fundamentally personal. Huge thanks to Layla Saad for this undertaking. You endorse Books books books! Thanks to everyone who recommended great things to read. There were too many to include them all, but I made a page highlighting the books endorsed by multiple people: Check it out here. What do you endorse? Doesn't have to be a book: Submit a link here. IRL This Sunday evening! July 15, Los Angeles: I'll be in conversation with Glynnis MacNicol at Skylight Books The Classifieds A guide to achieving your goals. Written by experts — 10% off this weekend for AF readers CODE: AnnRules “Glynnis MacNicol’s NO ONE TELLS YOU THIS is the story of a woman living by her own rules—alone—and having the audacity to enjoy it.”—Jessica Bennett. Read it now. Newsletter with real talk on love, pleasure, and non-monogamy delivered to your inbox starting July 18. Subscribe here to Something Bright. Parafine Press offers boutique self-publishing services. 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