10 Things You Need To Read This Sunday

1. Listen — I’m not about to watch Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime staged-reality series, but I’m definitely glad it got a terrible man to resign from office in my home state.

2. This was a very interesting/informative column about Kamala Harris and the state of the Democratic party.

3. I made this eggplant bacon for “B”LTs this week and while it didn’t turn out crispy, it was super good — highly recommend if you love eggplant as much as I do!

4. This story about literary world (of all the worlds…?) scammer Anna March was deeply fascinating.

5. Hello, here is Jonathan Van Ness talking about his beauty routine, a true salve for the soul.

6. This is a super long but good read about the chaos that’s unfolded at Facebook in the past two years.

7. I loved this (heartbreaking) piece of writing on Eater, which serves as a good reminder that plenty of work environments are unwelcoming thanks to toxic masculinity, and change needs to happen.

8. “Yet, even if we can signal points of identity — gender, race, class, style, interests — our looks can never fully be synecdoche for who we are. Because we are too many things to see at once, and there are only so many things we can signal at a time. Even if I am at once a suffragette and someone who enjoys having a bare face, I can only either wear red lipstick or not. I can’t wear jeans and a T-shirt and a dress, though I am both a tomboy and someone who enjoys more traditionally feminine expressions. I may successfully succeed in showing you some things, but to know everything about me that makes me me, you need to do more than just look.” I don’t know anything about crystals but I am loving this column on Catapult.

9. I am very keen to read the upcoming book White Fragility after reading this review in The New Yorker.

10. ICYMI: Shammara wrote a very insightful piece on just who has the privilege to be able to rally against fast fashion — check it out!