culture consumed (August, 2019)

tv

• finished Season 3 of One Day at a Time (3.11-3.13)
  
• the first 2 episodes of Slings and Arrows
  
• assorted tv while with the Florida fam ( Read more... )

art

• the MFA's Gender Bending Fashion exhibit again (3 more times, in fact -- with Thom G, my mom, and Holly)

live theatre

• Cymbeline (Shakespeare on the Common)
  
• The Donkey Show (with assorted friends who had never been and wanted to go before it closed; I had been early in its run ten years ago)

music

• Elsie Eastman's EP Postcard

books

• We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology ed. Fabio Fernandes & Djibril al-Ayad
  
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (graphic novel) -- so good
  
• Except When They Don't written by Laura Gehl and illustrated by Joshua Heinsz (picturebook) -- meh
  
• Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee (anthology, set in the Machineries of Empire universe, lots of which is flash fiction, but it also includes the "Glass Cannon" novella sequel to Revenant Gun)
  
• The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar (feminist sci-fi bookclub) and its companion novel, A Stranger in Olondria
  
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (graphic novel)
  
• and read over a dozen picture books to M

spoken word poetry -- serenadestrong reminded me that Sarah Kay exists, and I went down a bit of an Internet rabbit hole

• Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye "An Origin Story"
  
• "Private Parts" by Sarah Kay
  
• 9 Sarah Kay Poems To Share With Someone Who Gives You The Feels -- which I was going to power through, but the first couple I really wanted to savor
  
  
  1. Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye "When Love Arrives"
     
  2. Sarah Kay - "The Type" ( Read more... )
  
  
• Sarah Kay TED2011 "If I should have a daughter..."
  
• (and on a YouTube recommendation) Phil Kaye at TEDxFoggyBottom "Poetry in maximum security prison"

movies

• (most of) Julie Taymor's 2010 The Tempest starring Helen Mirren as Prospera -- which was Not Good (we fast-forwarded through most of the "comedic" scenes)
  
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (fannish movie night) which was actually really fun (including some of the DVD bonus features)