140 articles and essays to read and save and love, in celebration of the 100th edition of “Things I Read That I Love”

Topics include Elliot Smith, larping, snuff, Lean In and facebook feminism, the lived history of Concord MA, child sex trafficking, growing up Chinese in West Van and so much more!

Topics include a “the girl in the closet” (a terrifying story of child abuse), stripping, the funeral business, 12 Years a Slave, sadness, sweatshops, bell hooks on “Lean In” and moar!

This week, Cohen asserts “people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman…” who “used to be a lesbian.” WOW!

Let’s face it, that’s all that we care about.

“For some reason this movie really wants us to know that sometimes Britney and Jamie Lynn have wrestling matches and Jamie Lynn always wins.  Picture that for a minute.  Now move on.”

This week on Glee, everybody sang Billy Joel songs and everything hurt!

“This would be a great time to merge an app review with how adorable everyone is with their perfect humans because everyone who works here is a total critter.”

“I would love to know how much money this show spends on snakes, drummers, and chalk.”

“It is still quite strange to not be in school anymore and I do have to keep reminding myself that it is OK to take some time off. That I do not have to start my “career” right this second. That as long as I am lucky enough to provide food, water, and shelter for myself, I will be ok.”

“Maybe years of blogging ruined me, or maybe they created a productive tension.”

Autostraddle’s television writers on their favorite lezalicious, bisexual, queer and trans* ladies on the 2013 teevee!

“Oh, wait, so you’re not dressing in a mass-produced stereotypical ‘Native’ costume, and instead were just dressing as one of the most racist caricatures depicting an Indigenous person in the history of American cinema?”

Okay, so you have a pen and paper and some feelings. Now what?

I need a sanitizing hand wipe for my soul, you guys.

“Laneia, that was our first official interaction in the world — you seeing a link to my blog on The Planet Boards and wanting to delete it.”

Books by authors whose longform work we’ve read in “Things I Read That I Love,” plus other reads relevant to your interests! For longform lovers and lovers of longform lovers alike.

From Psycho to The Silence of the Lambs, horror movies have a long history of using trans women as insane murderers and creepy villains. It contributes to very real and very violent transmisogyny against actual trans women.

“Snakes hatch from eggs and crawl on them. They stab each other in the chest with needles. You know, typical married sex.”

The first thing you should know about “Concussion” is that Robin Weigert has sex.