2018 Year End Link Roundup
Posted in Editorials on December 31st, 2018by Elizabeth
As with 2017, my personal life is just fine. My son is healthy and growing, Adam and I make time for work and being together and personal projects. We went to a Families Belong Together March, and I met comedy writer Pat Cassels while bowling for abortion funds. I went to Elton John’s Farewell tour and had an amazing time and had my most viral tweet ever. Karen and I made 12 episodes of Feminist Coffee Hour, which I am so proud of.
I don’t have much to say about movies or music (though I loved The Shape of Water, and Blackkklansman) or tv (two of my favorites – Portlandia and The X-Files ended this year and I also watched a lot of baking shows and 90’s sci-fi.) But here’s some recommendations for some articles, podcasts and books:
In Case You Missed It
Judge finalizes $25 million Trump University settlement for students of ‘sham university’
Ivanka Trump tried to ‘bribe’ Planned Parenthood to stop performing abortions
Counter-Protesting at Abortion Clinics Is Actually Counterproductive
Point: A year after Charlottesville, the alt-right is in shambles
Counterpoint: The White Nationalists Are Winning
If Nike Is Serious About Oppression Against People of Color, They Should Pay Their Own Workers
Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes: ‘We Need More Violence from the Trump People’
Amtrak Hijacker Participated In Neo-Nazi Chats with Charlottesville Organizers
No Evidence New York Legislator Died from Flu Shot
How We Know Brett Kavanaugh Is Lying
When A Woman Is Raped In Rural Alaska, Does Anyone Care?
Dean Skelos, Ex-New York Senate Leader, Gets 4 Years and 3 Months in Prison
Fox News calls Donald Trump a dictator
The Deadly Incel Movement’s Absurd Pop Culture Roots
Anti-fascists were stabbed at a neo-Nazi rally. Then police tried to charge them
Podcast Recommendations
Of course I think you should listen to my show, Feminist Coffee Hour. We even did a year-end wrap up with almost all positive news stories from 2018 – check it out!
Scam Wow – This show about great American scams is hilarious and informative.
The Dream This is a podcast about one of my obsessions: multi level marketing and why it’s evil.
The Shadows – a work of fiction from Kaitlin Prest. A soulful, haunting romance. I listened to it in November and I am still thinking about it.
Books
My Favorite Books of 2018
Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
Failure is an Option by H. Jon Benjamin
(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump by Jonathan Weisman
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein
Song of A Captive Bird by Jasmin Darznik
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen
Top books I read this year that were published in other years
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman
You’ll Grow Our of It by Jessi Klein
Happy New Year! Here’s hoping for love, joy and peace to all in 2019.
