Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 16

Jasmine doesn’t do advertisements. Since her early 20s, she’s been staunchly anti-capitalist, believes ads are, at best, meaningless propaganda that only serve the ruling class. But she’s a businesswoman now and step one in becoming a #GirlBoss is putting yourself out there. At the Staples Copy and Print counter, she stares at a gloss-finish poster that reads JASMINE’S BROWS AND CUTS in Pinterest-ready cursive. The A in Jasmine and O in brow are substituted with two wonky asters, both missing half their petals. She stayed up till midnight designing the poster in Canva.
Read more of “Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts” in The Puritan.

The Art of Teaching Writing:

Sarah Polley’s new book:

The Walrus @thewalrus

“Relieved and slightly shaken to realize that now, decades later, nobody recognizes her.” Rather than enjoy her new found anonymity, @realsarahpolley digs deep into the early, and often traumatic, experiences that shaped her.

Who Does Sarah Polley Think She Is? | The WalrusShe first gained fame as a child actor. The writer and director has been confronting the traumas of these early experiences ever sincethewalrus.ca

On The Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV by Soraya Roberts:

The Walrus @thewalrus

From the exclusionary collection of viewership ratings, to the lack of BIPOC in the writers’ room, @sorayaroberts argues that diversity in Canadian television is even more behind than we think.

The Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV | The WalrusHow risk avoidance shapes our entertainmentthewalrus.ca

The value of boring tasks:

Literary Hub @lithub

"There is value in boring tasks that engage the body but not the mind. Boring tasks and practices free the creative mind from the constant inundation of the ordinary."

You Can’t Have Creativity Without BoredomWhen I was a child, my mother used to tell me that boredom was just a lack of imagination. I’m sure her parents told her the same thing. The expression was probably everywhere in popular culture. I…lithub.com

On ADHD:

I particularly relate having recently been diagnosed myself.

Kelli María Korducki @kelkord

ADHD is real, wildly misunderstood, and one of the most annoying disorders to talk about or hear people discussing. I would know; I have it, too. For The Guardian, I wrote about why the ADHD landscape is such a big old mess, aka capitalism and bad faith

TikTok trends or the pandemic? What’s behind the rise in ADHD diagnosesBy 2016, the reported incidence of adult ADHD rose by 123% in the US – increases in stimulant medication prescriptions suggest its rise continuestheguardian.com

New short story by Zoe Whittall:

Zoe Whittall @zoewhittall

I've been working on my short story collection today. It's called Wild Failure and will be out next year. Still happy with this one:

Half Pipe | HazlittNow that strangers have seen me naked, I can move on to worrying about getting into college or my inevitable death.hazlitt.net

Here’s great webinar from the FOLD with Amanda Leduc:

How Your Brain Conjures Dreams

You dream for two hours every night, but for something so common, it’s a remarkably enigmatic process. Only in the past few decades, with the advance of technology like fMRIs that lets us record and visualize activity in the brain, have neuroscientists begun to figure out how and why we experience these reveries. While sleepy interludes seem to rely on many of the same mental processes we use while awake, researchers are still trying to understand the way they work together during slumber. Here’s how we think our brains drive our nocturnal hallucinations.

How to Stand Up for Yourself

No one sets out to be a doormat. Yet some people are chronically passive, always putting other’s needs before their own. These are the folks who end up babysitting for an acquaintance instead of going to their yoga class. In the long run, being unable to express what you want is a recipe for perpetual dissatisfaction, because your needs always end up on the back burner. The good news is people can learn to ask for the things they want at home, at work and even at a local restaurant when you get a burnt steak and want a new one.

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Some good advice:

James Clear @JamesClear

If it works, keep doing it. (An idea that is ignored surprisingly often.)

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“Asleep Till You’re Awake” by Francine Cunningtom from God Isn’t Here Today: Stories

“Crybaby” by Samantha Jones

“On Not Sharing Ideas Before They Are Hatched” by Kathryn Mockler

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“Jasmine’s Brows and Cuts” by Rachel Lachmansingh

I’m doing Jami Attenberg’s #1000wordsofsummer challenge. It starts June 4:

A range of disability ‘Bechdel tests’:

A review of “The Book of Grief and Hamburgers” by Stuart Ross

New series from The Tyee

New publishing program from Dionne Brand:

Some interesting writing website recommendations here:

The Art of Teaching Writing:

Sarah Polley’s new book:

On The Superficial Diversity of Canadian TV by Soraya Roberts:

The value of boring tasks:

On ADHD:

New short story by Zoe Whittall:

Here’s great webinar from the FOLD with Amanda Leduc:

How Your Brain Conjures Dreams

How to Stand Up for Yourself

My Trainer Phil has started a newsletter! Check it out!

Some good advice:

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