Links: Events, Nuns, & Cosplay

For all the American Bitchery, Thanksgiving is tomorrow! We hope all the food is tasty and the family socializing doesn’t stress you out too much. For anyone not celebrating Thanksgiving, we still hope your Thursday is fantastic.

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If you’re in the D.C. area, there’s an awesome romance event happening at Politics & Prose with Sarah, Alyssa Cole, and Alisha Rai! Hope you can make it out on November 30th at 7pm.

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Let me introduce you to your new favorite web series: Black Girl in a Big Dress.

BLACK GIRL IN A BIG DRESS is a series about an African American Anglophile cosplayer in love with the Victorian Era who’s trying to bring a fantasy courtship from her re-entactment events into the real world.

Adrienne feels happy and confident when she’s dressed up living life like it’s a fairy tale, but back in the real world, it’s a whole different story. Put her in a petticoat, and Adrienne can hold court with the best of them. But when the costumes come off and she has to just be herself, she has a hard time knowing who that is or how she fits in.

Join Adrienne as she navigates relationships with confident, charismatic roommate Liz, cute coworker, Sean, and man of her dreams Lord Fitzhugh…who probably has a real name, she just doesn’t know what it is.

If you give it a watch, let me know what you think!

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Want a cute story about nuns and cheesecake?:

CAMBRIDGE, N.Y. — At first, the prep work for 200 four-pound cheesecakes in the sunny, commercial kitchen seemed familiar, unremarkable. An elderly woman in a bandanna wielded a cheese cutter, slicing through fat bricks of cream cheese. Another woman with silvery bangs poured heavy cream into the mixer, dipped a tasting pinkie into the batter and grinned. Rich vanilla perfumed the air. As containers from Florida were opened, bright bursts of Key lime scent escaped.

Familiar — and not. In this bakery, wall-mounted religious icons watched over the proceedings. Words on a poster speculated about how the Nativity would have been more efficient, nurturing and peaceful if Three Wise Women had been at the scene. Most strikingly, except for the clatter of aluminum springform pans being oiled by hand, the bakery was mostly quiet. When the nuns of New Skete bake, they pray.

“Scripture says, ‘Pray always,’ ” said Sister Cecelia Harvey, prioress of this monastery in rural upstate New York. She is a petite white-haired nun with an easy laugh and a wry sense of humor. “Can you not be aware of God while you’re putting cheese in a bowl and mixing things up?”

It was a story I never knew I needed.

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Rebekah Weatherspoon is on the Les Do Books podcast with Tara Scott talking about lesbian romance and lesbian fiction!

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And if you need a laugh in preparation for the holiday weekend, here’s “Tips for Emily’s Low-Key Destination Bachelorette! PLEASE READ.”

Please enter your flight information in the previously sent Google Doc. We know many of you already did this, but someone accidentally deleted all of the information. We aren’t upset. It’s fine. It was just a major inconvenience.

Also: PLEASE DON’T accidentally delete all of the information!!!!!

Your room has been assigned, and a monogrammed p.j.’s set (cute!) will denote which bed is yours. DO NOT trade beds. It took us a chain of a hundred and thirty-three e-mails to settle on a plan. @JACKIE, we are sorry you are the only person who will have to sleep on an air mattress in the laundry room. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that you deleted the Google Doc and created a logistical nightmare for everyone.

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Don’t forget to share what super cool things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!