I'm journalist and blogger Diane Shipley and I enjoy TV, books, baby animals, sarcasm and feminism. I also tweet.
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"I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t. You cannot. There are not any. You cannot take yourself to one, take your friend to one, take your daughter to one. There are not any."
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I’m writing an article for a UK magazine about online advice, and need to speak to someone who asked a blogger or a podcaster for advice, was answered publicly (i.e. in a blog post or podcast episode), and either found it helpful or unhelpful. Said person can be anonymous!
dianeshipleyworks@gmailDOTcom.
"I’m a blogger, a Southerner, a hopeless lover of animals, patterns and anything shiny- and I’m also gay. That fact may make no difference to some of you reading, but being able to be 100% myself here means the world to me. This website is my home."
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Autostraddle — Design*Sponge Founder Grace Bonney Comes Out, Is My Idol
This is everything lovely about the internet.
"Here I should confess a bias. I prefer my Shakespeare in modern clothing and with American accents…"
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‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Directed by Joss Whedon - NYTimes.com
I want to see this film, and we all loved Romeo + Juliet, but even so: how dare you.
Tags | Shakespeare | rudeness |
“She recognized that this is how friendships begin: one person reveals a moment of strangeness, and the other person decides just to listen and not exploit it.”
—Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
Why did this make me tear up?
In the charity bookshop today, I picked up some Alice Munro, but then…
"When we talk about pushing boundaries or being edgy or testing taboos or whatever – when we bring names like George Carlin and Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor into this discussion – what people who argue the pro-rape-joke side miss is that, in a country in which 54 percent of rapes are never reported, telling rapists that what they did isn’t a big deal isn’t pushing any limits at all. It’s the damn status quo."
Tags | Feminism | rape culture |
Have you heard about this show everyone’s heard about?
I don’t generally watch British drama because generally American stuff isn’t so, how can I put it? Crappy and derivative. So it’s taken me until now to finally start watching Sherlock and OMG, it’s so good you guys!!!! (If only the entire internet had told me sooner…) I think I might be a ‘shipper by the next episode. And probably a Cumberbitch by series 2.
SO I SAW ONE OF MY KITTENS CLIMBING A TREE TODAY AND SORT OF FREAKED OUT AND WENT TO GO GET IT
THEY’RE NESTING
IN A NEST
I DON’T THINK THEY KNOW THEY’RE CATS
OK, well this is the best thing.
Tags | best things | cats |
