workweek reading recs (14 April 2025)

[matsushima]

 

• In Defense of Spiders: One writer explores the liminal spaces between self-censorship and creativity (2025/04)
• The A.I. Romance Factory (archive link) (2025/04)
• The Sea of Crises (?)
  tw: suicide (graphic, method described)
• The Battle of Boca Chica (2014/05)
• This Be The Place: Singing in Many Languages (2025/04)
• Poetry: The Storyteller Gets Her Name, by Ari Tison
• Podcast: Behind the Bastards: Part One: Thomas Kinkade: The Evil-est Painter

If you like these round-ups, you might also enjoy The Lazy Reader, who does more detailed weekly posts with links to recommended longform articles!

This week's nonprofit is J-ALL: Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislation. From their website: "Japan needs a LGBT Anti-Discrimination Law equivalent to the standards of other industrially-developed countries."