Link Roundup #26: Links I've Had Open on My Phone Forever

A collection of links I’ve had open on my phone since 2020

Valerie ShaindlinJanuary 6, 2023

Link Roundup #25: Feeling Lucky, Grateful, Angry, Sad

Just five links, mostly about women authors. It’s still COVID, & I’m exhausted.

Valerie ShaindlinSeptember 9, 2020Ferrante, food, Ehrenreich, race, white supremacy, Manne, Goldstein, women authorsComment

Feminist Required Reading: Beginner, Intermediate, & Advanced

I’ve compiled a list of the top ten nonfiction books (and two academic articles) that can be considered required reading for any feminist in 2020. Drawing from both the classics and some of the most influential and important contemporary work.

On the Police Taking a Knee as Propaganda

We need to all think critically, and recognize what messages images are meant to convey.

FeminismValerie ShaindlinJune 2, 2020critical thinking, police, politics, semiotics, social justice, BLMComment

A Demographically-Representative American Reading List

What would a demographically-representative reading list look like?

LibrarianValerie ShaindlinJune 1, 2020booklist, books, reading list, reading recs, reading, to read, ReadingComment

Book Review: Women of the Midan

I wrote a book review of Women of the Midan: The Untold Stories of Egypt’s Revolutionaries, for the Oral History Review. Read the full version here; the published version will be behind a paywall & is much shorter.

LibrarianValerie ShaindlinMay 14, 2020Women of the Midan, women authors, activism, book review, Egypt, Sherine HafezComment

What My Book Clubs are Reading Right Now

Here’s what all four of the book clubs I’m in, are reading right now.

LibrarianValerie ShaindlinMay 12, 2020book clubs, reading, reading recs, reading list, to readComment

How to Do Nothing: Resisting, Reflecting

A book and an interview/article that I find helpful right now.

LibrarianValerie ShaindlinMay 11, 2020productivity, economics, How to Do Nothing, books, Jenny O'Dell, art, creativityComment

How to Practice Meditation & Yoga

Here are a few quick tips as well as a compilation of resources for those who want to start practicing yoga and.or meditation.

YogaValerie ShaindlinMay 7, 2020playlist, yoga playlist, fitness, exercise, yogi, yoga, meditationComment

The Yoga Equipment I Use & Recommend

Here are my favorite yoga essentials: my favorite mat, travel mat, leggings, blocks, and more.

YogaValerie ShaindlinMay 6, 2020yoga, yogi, exercise, fitness, equipmentComment

My Favorite Books Published in 2019

These are my 4 favorite books published in 2019.

Valerie ShaindlinApril 9, 2020books, reading, best of, JVN, essays, nonfiction, fictionComment

Link Roundup: Quarantine Edition

Quarantine is weird.

Valerie ShaindlinApril 9, 2020Kardashians, celebrity, social justice, prison, scamming, true crime, Mormonism, alt-right, writing, Janelle Monae, homelessness, sex, reading, UgandaComment

Link Roundup #23: Books in Prisons, Plants, Giza, & Gender in the Library

Valerie ShaindlinOctober 24, 2019economics, tattoos, teens, hip hop, music, Hustlers, prison, books, gender, plants, art, libraryComment

Link Roundup #22: Pen Pals, Brains, & Language Justice

Link Roundup #22: Articles about pen pals, our brains, language justice, and the 1619 project. And Beyoncé (duh).

Valerie ShaindlinSeptember 27, 2019millennials, language, oral history, Hawaiian, 1619, slavery, Beyoncé, brains, travel, criticismComment

Link Roundup #21: Lizzo, Beyoncé, Antidepressants & the End Times

Valerie ShaindlinSeptember 13, 2019Beyoncé, Lizzo, Climate Change, homelessness, library, royalty, Indigeneity, writing

Link Roundup #20: PR Protests, Lingering Loss, Rosalía, & Postracial Myths in Silicon Valley

Valerie ShaindlinSeptember 10, 2019Silicon Valley, music, feminism, race, Puerto Rico, technology, brains, cultural heritage, reading, Rosalía, Judge Judy, sexism

A Mexico City Reading List

A Mexico City reading list for anyone on their way to or intrigued by CDMX.

Valerie ShaindlinSeptember 3, 2019CDMX, Mexico, travel, Central America, reading list, Sandra Cisneros, feminism

Link Roundup #19: Warren's Ideas, Sexism in the Academy, Ketamine Trips, & Rihanna

Here are links to articles I’ve been meaning to read: Elizabeth Warren, Rachel Kushner, and Rihanna. Ketamine trips, working witches, and “the banality of empathy”.

Link Roundup #23: Feminist Fashion, Academic Freedom, & Student Debt

Link Roundup #23: Is feminist fashion good activism? The limits of academic freedom, the burden of student debt, and more.

Valerie ShaindlinSeptember 1, 2019poverty, feminism, fashion, Tavi Gevinson, academia, book clubs, brains, anxiety, activism, Margaret Atwood, domestic work, librarian, Ai-jen Poo, students, debtComment

How to Do Nothing

A brief review of Jenny O’Dell’s fantastic interdisciplinary book, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy