Link Loves: Volume II

This week’s links are up and there’s a bit more variety in that they’re not just articles:

I read this piece, ‘The Male Gaze‘, last year, saved in my Pocket, and decided to reread when I saw the Gillette ad. It’s a longread, but it’s a good one, considering its message can be applied to much more than movies. “We are capable of more. This is a clarion call to every person challenged by this culture-wide reckoning: To see more, we have to lose the blinders that have long and faithfully guided our vision. This will be uncomfortable.”

One for the creatives and business peeps out there, but also useful for keeping up with trends: the Pinterest version that is.

I love a good booklist, and here’s two from LitHub – some 2019 anticipated reads, and some 2019 book adaptations (I’m most looking forward to The Nightingale).

And since we’re on a literary bent (come on, when am I not?) and I’ve been seriously wanderlusting after Paris in the snow, here’s a guide to that wonderful city from the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir.

In honour of MLK Day, a clip from Chinua Achebe’s interview with the Paris Review, a reminder that actions speak louder than words, and a playlist to boot.

And with Australia Day yesterday, I had to share this link from Lit Hub, which is particularly related to Indigenous American civilisations, but incredibly important to understanding the history of the rest of the world too. I studied this while in the UK and this is so important to understand. For too long, we’ve been willfully blind, ignorant and deaf to everything Indigenous Australians have been saying. We’re not prepared to own up to it. I love Australia, it’s my home, but this silencing and privilege is over.

And introducing a bit of style and home decor, Jacey Duprie recently shared a sneak peak into her home, and always craving a little LA interior design, I’ve linked it here.

In light of this week’s fashion shows in Paris, a piece on the democratisation of creativity. This interests me on a study note, as I took a unit on Politics and Literature in Britain, and how the 1930s was a particularly important period in how the arts were democratised firstly by whom (not just intellectuals), and also to whom (again, not just intellectuals).

Finally, a bit of fashion and blogging and definitely Paris dreaming. Sarah Loven has updated her site recently and as dreamy as the whole site is, her photography and mood when it comes to Paris is definitely something I rate.

So, until next week, enjoy this week’s links, go back to last week’s, and enjoy some musings on the word ‘muse’.

-nat 🥀♥️