Wonderful essay today in
@literaryhub.bsky.social by Elizabeth Costello. "As in our own society, decisions about language reflect and create systems of social control. People in power aim to stay that way by choosing what is and isn’t named."
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Gorilla Under the Bed: Desire and Death in James Tiptree Jr.’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
In her biography of James Tiptree Jr., Julie Phillips shares stories of Tiptree’s adventures in Africa as a child. Tiptree was one of the noms de plume employed by Alice Bradley Sheldon, who, in th…
