Remain in light

Surprise me View in browser October 12, 2018 Mitjili Napurrula    This week Today's episode of Call Your Girlfriend—which features the fantastic Stacey Abrams, who's running for governor of Georgia—is titled after a Marian Wright Edelman quote: "Be a good ancestor." This is advice I'm really trying to take to heart. I'm also trying to keep in mind this, from Austin Kleon: "Be the light, or reflect it." Don't just keep shouting about how everything is fucked. And, occasionally, give in to the urge to escape. I've got an essay in the new issue of The Gentlewoman about how I learned to love edible cannabis. (Spoiler: It's less about my personal journey than it is about the market growing up and offering some lower-dose options.) The full issue is not online but please pick up a copy if you see it on a newsstand. It's the one with—gasp!—director Agnès Varda on the cover. I'm reading Wesley Morris on art and culture as a battleground for social justice. Mac McClelland drives the California coastline. Lydia Kiseling on the pleasures of YouTube travel—and the weird stuff kids are watching on the internet. Everyone feels alienated in America right now. How Russian meddling was decisive in the 2016 election. Unbelievable: Some children whose parents were deported are being put up for adoption in the U.S. How we described evil before Hitler. The graphic design of white supremacist movements. The rise and fall of affirmative action. A lawyer and an incarcerated person fell in love and upended the Texas prison system. Children getting married. High school students in Kentucky address a mental-health crisis. Don't count on Taylor Swift to save us. Have most men been in bar fights? Trump, Kanye, and male bonding. The first family of memes. The secrets hidden in the melting Alps. The writer Olivia Laing, interviewed with screenshots. Angela Flournoy on Barry Jenkins. The women journalists covering Duterte's drug war in the Philippines. An attempt to track down the Chinese factory worker who left a pleading note in a Wal-Mart handbag. The fight for retail workers in the U.S., and the service workers in Vegas being replaced by robots. HaaAaaAAaaahAAHahhhAAaahh AAahh AAHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Members only You know that you'll see a handmade chart here every single week when you become a paying member, right? It's just $5/year, though you can pay me more if you feel like it. I'd love your support. What are you missing? Today it's (naturally) a MOON PIE. I'm looking & listening A Star is Boar. On wearing lipstick in public and saying goodbye to male identity. On the Cameo app and how to control a celebrity. And, per the title of this email, Angelique Kidjo's re-imagining of Talking Heads' classic "Remain in Light." GIFspiration Apparently moons can have moons, and some people are calling them ... moonmoons. I can't stop thinking about this. 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