elisi | Lockdown Update Day 191

During teaching today I was petting my cat and my co-teacher announced it and asked to see the cat. Then no fewer than 60% of the students reached down and pulled THEIR cats up into view of the cameras and suddenly my Zoom squares were all cats and everything was perfect.
— Sarah Williams (@misanthropologa) September 23, 2020

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She Who Must Not Be Named news - good & thoughtful review in Vox of the new novel:

Troubled Blood sees J.K. Rowling at the mercy of all her worst impulses
In her latest detective novel, Rowling spends most of her time explaining why she’s mad at modern feminism.

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Sady Doyle: Something Strange: The Nightmare Before Christmas (Harry Selick & Tim Burton*, 1993)
For the newsletter, I wrote about RBG, TERFs, my favorite family holiday, and "The Nightmare Before Christmas"