workweek reading recs (29 September 2025)

[matsushima]

• Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter (2024/04)
• Fake Oxford: Three kids thought they got the college acceptance of their dreams. When they got to school, they found something far different. (2025/09)
• hen Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer (2025/09)
• Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause (2025/09)
• People are grieving the 'death' of their AI lovers after a chatbot app abruptly shut down (2023/10)
• Disney and the Decline of America's Middle Class (2025/08)
• The photographs edited 150 years before Photoshop (2025/05)
• From the archives: The Strange, Sad Story of the Ken Doll's Crotch (2019/10)

This week, consider signing up for (and donating to) Queer Liberation Library. (Please note: You will need a U.S. mailing address to register. I was able to sign up from overseas using my permanent U.S. address.)