How to Remember Where You Parked Using the Google Assistant
There’s nothing quite like the frustration of forgetting where you parked. Fortunately, if you have an iPhone, iPad, or Android smartphone with the Google Assistant installed,...
Sign Up For AWS’s Savings Plans To Cut Your EC2 Bill In Half
AWS EC2 On-Demand is notoriously pricey, and AWS offers many ways to cut down on hosting costs. Savings Plans is the newest pricing model, which is...
Classic Queer Books You Might Have Missed
I feel a little self-conscious about this admission, but here it goes: I’m mostly a self-taught writer. I was a women’s studies major who went on...
What Does It Mean to Perform Whiteness?
Brit Bennett’s sophomore novel, The Vanishing Half, opens in the fictional town of Mallard, Louisiana. Mallard is founded as a haven for, and populated exclusively by,...
America Has Never Wanted Non-White Citizens
In Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America, her first book of nonfiction, novelist Laila Lalami meditates on what it means to be American if you’re not...
7 of the best Squarespace templates for your blog
There’s a good reason why Squarespace is an incredibly popular web building and hosting service: it allows people to build gorgeous websites easily and affordably, thanks...
9+ Tolkien-Inspired Recipes to Enjoy on Hobbit Day
Happy Hobbit Day, the day we celebrate the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, arguably two of the most significant hobbits of Middle-earth history. And though...
California School District Considers Classic Book Ban
The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) has issued a letter to the Burbank School District in Burbank, California, regarding the district’s proposed censorship of several American...
12 Gay YA Books to Make You Feel Yourself (Or Make You Cry)
I don’t believe in the idea of guilty pleasures. I even used to run a pop culture blog centered around the fact that they shouldn’t be...
Why There Aren’t More Jointly Authored Novels
While joint authorship is frequent in academic writing, it’s less common within writing for general audiences. There are lots of exceptions, of course. Jointly authored novels...
