ff

ALL THE THINGS! there's a song there. check it out, it has great horn-bits.

too busy running and dancing and working and making jokes and making plans, i have been neglecting this here blorg. just gonna throw all the various bits i had drafted to post and then didn't. lots to read, lots and lots woooo!

* gloria steinem quote

* kerry washington speech

* how to uphold white supremacy by focusing on diversity and inclusion

* for whose protection

* this is what the fashion industry thinks diversity looks like

* THIS BOOK LOOKS SO GOOD I WANT TO GET IT FOR EVERYONE aka illustrated feminist heroes abcs

* why i only read books by women in 2013 (hey i'm doing that this year!)

okay greatjob! i have a thing in my brain that i'm stoked about. shhhh. i'll tell y'all about it. soon.

happy friday!

today i read

 

{sara benincasa for human parts at medium}

* stick around

find the thing that helps you stick around. flowers. trees. when things are okay, the list can be a million times longer, but when things are not okay, a list of one or two... it can be enough. it could be.

recently i added: books. if one option is to not be here, and another option is to quit everything and read books in bed for the rest of forever, forsaking all other things (except, of course, flowers, dogs)... i'm just saying... it is an idea.

etta

speeeeaking of women writers... here's what my sister has been getting up to......

* everybody wants etta

i mean, whatever, no big deal, she's just a mega super star who is going to take over the world and go on oprah. dibs on being her stylist! DIBS DIBS!

room

lovely things that have been making me glad lately. good colours and shiny things and the remembering of the humans who gave me them and organization. and heels.

ff

this week was going to be about this christian dude who critically dealt with his belief structure and came to some pretty sound conclusions. cause i really liked the piece.

but then!

 {dougal mcneil on reading female authors}

i found this other piece. and i was much more engaged and interested in actually writing about it. so. still read the first. but! here's today's focus:

* reading (or not reading) women authors

firstly, let me say that it would probably help if more women were published, so literary world, PUBLISH MY SISTER ALREADY!!! i mean. jeeez. (okay, i know he says that women being published isn't the problem. but still. publish her anyways. jeeez.)

also.

be sure to look at the pie-charts linked in the article. (cause. PIE!) about women vs. men in journalism.*

also.

this is something emma has mentioned before. making an effort to include female authors in her courses and so on. because the thing is, a lot of the 'classics' are written by men. (that has a lot to do with the times in which same 'classics' were written, and the voices women were given/allowed then.) so we tend to read those. but even beyond that... when it comes to literature outside the lines of 'chick lit'... it does seem to me that we (i) tend to end up reading soo sooo many more men than women. and i'm a person who thinks about these things. (i'm a person with a feminist weekly-feature!)

in my current bookclub we have read:
hope, a tragedy - auslander.
1q84 - murakami.
the leftovers - perotta.
isobel & emile - reed.
freedom - franzen.

all contemporary novels. all male authors.

i have to admit i'm ashamed. (and since i chose a book everyone pretty much hated, followed by a book with over 900 pages, i won't get to pick again anytime soon. so. shoot.)

i have, on my own time, read one joan didion book recently. and bought two more for future reads. (which i'll write a purchase post about soon.)

my past bookclub only held together for three books, but of those two were by men.

sigh. i don't feel good about this. i will need to work to improve.

*because. maybe, just maybe, this is part of the reason someone (ANYONE) thought that this piece of trash was suitable for publication in what many would consider to be a fairly liberal and intellectual newspaper. in canada. HEAVY SIGHS!

purchase

now that fashion month is over*, i am going to start slipping more non-fashion posts in. i still have lots of clipped paris shows to write about, so there's lots of fashion to come. but. diversify! all the stuff that was being neglected during the wacko-runways times!

*sure, sure, there's toronto fashion week. and hearts and puppies. but it doesn't count. on the grand scale. sooorrrryyyy toronto. i might write a little bit about some stuff, but i don't think i'll actually make it to any shows this time round. so. blah blah whatevers!!!

OKAY! so back to confessing my purchases! here's one i bought a little while back. for. BOOKCLUB!!

 two copies of 'hope, a tragedy' by shalom auslander. one for me and one for jeff. it has a great cover. i can't tell you what i think of the book though, because a) i'm not done and b) that's for bookclub, silly! i bought them at book city. which i love. and which, i hear, is not doing well. boooo!

warm glow

i've been hunting the last two weeks for a work gift-exchange challenge: a used copy of a favourite kid's christmas book. challenge indeed! see, most of the books i loved most are out of print and crazy hard to find... i had ordered 'morriss's disappearing bag' on amazon, but then instead of shipping it, the seller canceled my order after a few days. jerk. i was all in a panic.

but. oh! then! yesterday! just in time!

i found the greatest thing at seeker's books on bloor!

remember this gem?! i had forgotten. i loved this book so so so much. and the person receiving this book has a little boy and a little girl... and he's from winnipeg, so there's a bit of prairie in their blood. oh. it is perfect. i'm so so happy about finding it. i almost started to cry in the bookstore cause my heart got so big so fast...

i can't wait to be home for christmas. i can't wait. it is the most magical thing.