Marching into spring: a project, a short story, and some funny stuff!

[Sarah Seltzer]

Hello pals and readers!

Consider this a direct plea to take action; my friend Meredith and I are starting a crowdsourcing project called Having it Some, which collects family leave (and sabbaticals and other dope work-life policies!), aiming for transparency in lots of different sectors. 

• We've been written up at Feministing, The Daily News, Ann Friedman's newsletter, and TakePart.  So, if you are employed and have an employee handbook accessible at your desk or online, flip through to the leave section, and submit now! www.havingitsome.tumblr.com/submit I'd rather you do that than read the rest of this, I swear.

But if you must continue on...

My short story on Storychord is about a widow who takes her daughter to Paris and finds their vacation priorities out of sync. Thanks, Elisabeth, for curating the issue!

A review of Elisa Albert's excellent "After Birth" at Lilith Magazine.

My favorite pieces from Flavorwire so far in 2015: 

• Beyond Mansplaining: A New Lexicon of Misogynist Trolling Behaviors

• What the Internet’s MFA Wars Are Really About Yes, there were internet MFA wars. I blame capitalism.

• Female Friendship Is Life’s Great, Thwarted Romance in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels

• Notoriously Difficult Literary Classics, Transformed Into Popular Page-Turners I accepted Fay Weldon's modest proposal, and bowdlerized literature's most complex passages.

• Jane Eyre, Lizzy Bennet, and Jo March Walk Onto a Stage: Remixing a New Canon of Heroines  A theater review/essay pondering the existence of a "heroine canon."

• Knoptimism vs. Liz Lemonism: How ‘Parks and Recreation’ Took a Different Feminist Route

• Holy Moses, Oh Jeez! Parsing the Erotic Vocabulary of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. I close-read the novel to find some of its most oft-repeated phrases.

And more...

• Jonathan Franzen Is Wrong: Genre Fiction Is All About Moral Complexity

• It’s “A Matter of Time” Until New Protests Explode: Author Michael Gould-Wartofsky on Occupy’s Past and Future. 

• The 25 Most Homoerotic Friendships in Literature

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