Gay Pride: It’s Complicated

The radical queers (who I love and appreciate and consider myself part of, sometimes) are going to hate me for saying this, but we are NOT different from other people. … (Read more here)

xoJane, June 23, 2011

Introducing “We Can Do It!” with Becky Stark

Community enthusiasm and empowerment happens around conversation. So when we at ReadyMade decided to launch an online video component to our website—call it ReadyMade TV, if you will—we thought we’d feature not only instructional introductions to favorite projects in the magazine and blog, but also an original series about the nature of creativity called “We Can Do It!” This funny, lightly philosophical mini-talk show launches in one week, on Tuesday, June 21. … (Read more here)

ReadyMade, June 14, 2011

Where the Weird Stuff Really Is

“I thought there was no way it could actually be just birds, nonstop, and I was wrong.” … (Read more here)

xoJane, June 13, 2011

‘Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms’ documents how some went public, privately

A writer’s inner struggles can become like a series of public myths: the compulsions followed by purges, inner ego wildfires sandbagged with unbearable doubt, the ignoring of health issues, losing partners, weird habits and confessions of allegedly horrible secrets. These bad habits are sometimes no fun to be around, but stories of self-invention are always interesting to read about, especially in Carmela Ciuraru’s “Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms.” … (Read more here)

The Daily, June 12, 2011