Hello there, Wednesday! How is everyone doing? Made it through the holiday, I hope! I had a great Thanksgiving and then promptly caught a stomach bug, effectively negating the food baby I so carefully made on Turkey Day.
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I want to start with something serious first and then get to some more lighthearted things. Bust has been keeping an updated list of famous men accused of sexual harassment and assault SINCE the news regarding Harvey Weinstein broke. It’s disheartening to think these are all cases in the last few months, but I appreciate seeing an updated list as I’m refusing to support any media or projects associated with these men.
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DC area Bitches! We hope you can make the Romance & Resistance event tomorrow. Come say hi to Sarah, Alyssa Cole, and Alisha Rai!
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Bustle has blurbs from several romance authors on the importance of the genre:
“Romance is hope. It’s a ray of sunlight on a rainy day. Most of all, it’s a guarantee of a happy ending. Is it escapism for me? You bet it is. But now more than ever, I think we could all use a little escape. For me, reading romance is self-care when the outside is harsh, aggressive, and anxiety-inducing. And for me, writing romance is almost like a super power because I can potentially create that feeling for somebody else.”
Santino Hassell is author of Illegal Contact.
Hear that, romance authors? You’re superheroes!
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Want to see Great British Bake Off bakes in miniature form? Of course you do!
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If you need another reason to love Gal Gadot, read her interview with GQ. Oh, how I wish I was that interviewer.
Gadot grew up in the water—gal is the Hebrew word for “wave”—and after an hour of talking on the beach, she suggests we go for a swim. A few moments later, there is Gal Gadot, in black couture leather-flower Gottex, floating in the lapis-blue Mediterranean, eyes closed, with her face turned up to the dazzling noon sun, and also, uh, me. She chose this floating spot scrupulously, picking her way around underwater rocks until there was only soft sand beneath her feet. Little fish flick silently around her body. “Tell me what you like to eat,” she purrs, breaking the calm quiet of passing swells. Then she springs her observation trap: “BECAUSE I NOTICE YOU DID NOT EAT THE EGG SANDWICH THAT I BROUGHT YOU.”
If you ever meet Gal, be sure to eat the food she brings to you.
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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!
I enjoyed the GQ interview.
“She arrives at the beach with her hair in a bun, wearing old rubber flip-flops, denim cut-offs so distressed as to be inconsolable…”
That list of names is just sickening and I have no doubt that it will continue to grow as the abused feel more comfortable coming forward with names and details. I hope that in time this type of thing will become a rarity. I hope every man in power who has even considered sexual harassment/assault is quaking in their boots. Their time is over.
Hi! I love your site and try to get everyone I know to read it and eve bring it up during holiday family conversations, baby showers, and the gym (true story). However… your links posts are difficult to read in how they are formatted – is there anyway this could change so it’s easier to read? I wish I had a suggestion instead of just complaining, but I don’t know how to do that.
Hey Susan: I’d be happy to address the problem if you could tell me what’s difficult about it? Is it the text size or something else?
That Bust list, tho! Ugh. I’m forwarding the heck out of it.
(A different Susan, btw.)
I had my Gal Gadot love under control, and then I read that GQ piece.
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About the sexual harassment – have you seen the awesome sketch SNL made about it?