[BLOG] Some Sunday links
Jan. 21st, 2018 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about a week of her life as a freelance writer, highlighting so much of her work relates to social connections as opposed to actual writing.
- The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas shares an astonishingly prescient take by E.B. White on the power of television from 1938.
- Hornet Stories notes the efforts of the Indonesian government to get the Google Play Store there to block 70 apps used by LGBT people.
- At In a State of Migration, Lyman Stone looks at demographic trends in Hawaii, the other major insular possession of the United States. Low fertility and a high cost of living may actually lead to population decline there, too, in the foreseeable future.
- Joe. My. God. notes the death, at 59, of trailblazing gay comedian Bob Smith.
- JSTOR Daily links/u> to a paper noting how Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Uprising played a critical role in shaping post-war Jewish identity.
- Towleroad notes the announcement of an astonishingly preserved 1945 film clip showing gay men, out, at a pool party in 1945 Missouri.
- Window on Eurasia notes one prominent Donbas separatists' push for an aggressive response to the Ukrainian government over the collapse of Minsk, including an attempt to reclaim the remainder of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts from Kyiv.