The Audacious Roundup
Keep up with the Joel Gay Creative Fellows, Jet Toomer, Jesus Rodriguez, and Elspeth Michaels.
The December selection for the Audacious Book Club is Daughters of Smoke and Fire by Ava Homa. Our conversation with Ava takes place on December 15th at 8pm EST/5 pm PST and registration is open. If you missed last week’s conversation with Andrew Sean Greer you can watch it online.
I am reading submissions to The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series. Read the guidelines and submit your best writing. Submissions will be open until I have 24 essays.
Don’t Forget: Why Design Matters by Debbie Millman.
Debbie also has a new project, The Remarkable Life Deck, if you want to think through what the next decade of your life could look like. The cards are really beautiful and this is such a valuable exercise for looking ahead and taking stock of where you are. I don’t say that lightly. Normally, this isn’t my kind of thing but The Remarkable Life Deck is excellent.
If you’re looking for a nice notebook, check out my new Draft Writing Journal from Baron Fig. It’s pretty swank if I do say so myself AND back in stock.
It’s the time of year for lists—the New York Times notable 100 of 2022. I’ve never made that list. Yes, it hurts my tender little feelings. Maybe someday.
Soraya Nadia McDonald looks at the connection between those of us who deal with white supremacy as she discusses two new films—Till and Holocaust.
That former president/insurrectionist is back on Twitter. Or, at least, his account has been reinstated. And soon, Musk will be granting amnesty to most people who have been banned or suspended from Twitter. I’m sure that’s going to end well. Apparently, the best way to manage Musk’s companies is to have an entire team that just manages him. Like, corporate nannies. Dril has some thoughts on Twitter’s ongoing evolution.
The current alternatives to Twitter aren’t gardens of eden, though.
Random trivia…Musk’s sister Tosca runs Passionflix.
Another day, another Drump dinner with a white supremacist.
Speaking of, I guess Kanye is running for president again.
There was a mass shooting at a gay bar in Colorado Springs, and, as usual, there were warning signs. The murderer’s father is a piece of work, too. It was club patrons who subdued the shooter and saved many, many lives. It’s interesting to see who the public will and won’t support in the wake of such (preventable) tragedies and this time around, it seems like a lot of people just don’t care that gay and trans people were killed or injured.
Lauren Hough wrote a powerful essay about the refuge and sanctuary gay bars provide.
There was also a mass shooting in Chesapeake, VA and honestly, leaving the house seems like kind of a gamble, these days. And at UVA, students are still reeling from last week’s mass shooting.
And in Buffalo, security guards stopped a man, armed with an AR-15, from killing anyone.
Don’t get it twisted. Old heads usually got a little something going on.
Who is Caroline Ellison?
Tavi Gevinson on Tár and what it says about abusive genius.
It’s a revolving door of Bobs over at Disney and Bob Iger has stepped out of retirement and back into the throne at Disney.
Not Joanna and Chip doing a little rebrand!
A profile of Octavia Butler.
Ice Cube fumbled a $9 million bag to stay unvaccinated. Fascinating.
Sometimes, not even a month in Tuscany is enough to help with burnout.
RIP Jason David Frank. May he rest in Power Ranger.
This one really fucked with my head: video of the guy who's more concerned that his son is IN a gay club than that he MURDERED people in a gay club... he'd really rather his kid be a mass murderer than be gay? This has to be a sick parody!!! But I guess it's not? The real world makes me sad.
TILL is going to be a very hard movie to watch, but it should almost be mandatory for some white folks to see and reckon with.
I'm lactose intolerant and I paid a price on Thanksgiving Day but WTH, life's too short. LOL!!