Ancient Grains Archive
Trick, Treat, or Overthrow: Advanced Feminist Cosplay
Ancient Grains, Artwork
Oct 29, 2013
Worried about what to wear this Halloween? Worry no more. (Some costumes may require a working knowledge of Edwardian-era architecture/light hand replacement.) This year, why not try dressing as:
...bell "Captain" hooks? Slash at the twin crocodiles of racism and sexism with the hooks of righteousness and self-knowledge.
...Read More
Link Roundup!
Ancient Grains, The Internet
Oct 29, 2013
"I Married a Jew" (The Atlantic, 1939)
But it is hard for Ben to take the long view. He looks upon Hitler as something malignantly unique, and it is no use trying to tell him that a hundred years hence the world will no more call Hitler ...Read More
What Your Scented Candle Says About You
Ancient Grains, Design
Oct 28, 2013
Previously in What Your ____ Says About You: Posters and cats.
Sugar Cookie: It is deeply important to you that you be thought of as a welcoming person. You have been known to refer to your house as a "refuge," and sometimes hope that others say the same thing about it when
...Read More
Everybody Go Buy The Summer Prince Right Now
Ancient Grains, Books
Oct 28, 2013
Previously in Everybody Go Buy: Nella Larsen's Passing.
Hello! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to go out and acquire for yourself a copy of Alaya Dawn Johnson's The Summer Prince (Amazon | Indiebound). It's okay if you
...Read More
The Shoes in the Walls That Keep Witches Away
Ancient Grains, Witches
Oct 28, 2013
The kind of magic I find myself closest to believing in, particularly on windy days, is the magic of Merricat Blackwood and concealed objects. You remember the magic of concealed objects, don't you?
All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just ...Read More
Unsafe Spaces
Ancient Grains, Politics
Oct 28, 2013
“But they're so nice to me. Are you sure things happened this way?”
“He's never done anything like this before...”
“We spoke to her, and she knows that the way she lashed out is wrong.”
“We should all come together to process this. In ...Read More
How Not To Take The GRE With a Non-Standard-English Name
Ancient Grains, Weird True Tales
Oct 28, 2013
October is almost over, which means we are now well in the midst of application season.
If you are, like me, a school-loving, knowledge-hungry chump, you too might be in the process of trying to make your way along the tiers of Higher Education. I applied to grad school three years ago and
...Read More
Jaya Catches Up: Weetzie Bat
Ancient Grains, Books
Oct 28, 2013
Previous installments of the series can be found here. Most recently: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
For most of my life, when I heard someone talk about Weetzie Bat, I assumed it was a book about an actual bat. I imagined something like an anthropomorphic fruit bat: small, cute, not
...Read More