My Favourite Internet Things (This Week) #4

This is the fourth instalment in what I've now decided is going to be a series: My Favourite Internet Things, in which I compile interesting/amusing things I've seen on the internet this week.

This post is going up about a week later than I originally intended, because I just got kind of overwhelmed with things and wasn't able to get it up last Sunday/Monday, and I thought it would be better to just wait a whole week after that than to put it up mid-week. But here it is! I am currently writing this with a headache that I haven't been able to shift all day, so please excuse me if this post seems a bit off. I was tempted to just leave this post again, but I really want to get into the habit of posting regularly on here and this series is a good source of encouragement for me. 

On another note, I'm trying to think of a new name for this series. I'm not particularly keen on the current name, nor am I sure it really fits with the theme of many of the links, so if you have any suggestions for alternative names, please let me know! I will be glad to steal them. Now, on to the links:

Important articles

• At Wear Your Voice, eight non-binary people share what they want society to learn about gender. I originally meant to share this around Non-Binary Day (14th July), but it's always a good time to analyse our preconceptions about gender and learn how to better support our non-binary siblings.
• This article details the history of Quentin Tarantino's mistreatment of the women he works with. On top of Tarantino's failure to do anything when he knew about Harvey Weinstein's abuse of women, learning what actresses like Uma Thurman and Diane Kruger have to say about Tarantino's actions on set is very disturbing.
• reCAPTCHA is possibly (probably) exploiting us all. I've been wondering about the "I'm not a robot" things lately as I noticed many of them were no longer requiring me to pass any obvious checks before they confirmed my humanity. After reading this article, I feel uneasy about the change.

Bookish stuff (i.e. most of these links are related to books or reading even though I didn't plan it this way)

• The New York Public Library has book recommendations for Game of Thrones characters, who I guess need something to do now their series has ended. I found the suggestion for Joffrey particularly amusing.
• Also at NYPL, literary cats! Cats! In books! Read this and try to forget the horror that is the new trailer for the Cats film (no, I'm not linking it here - Google at your own risk).
• BookRiot has a list of non-fiction essays you can read for free online, by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Joan Didion, and Roxane Gay. Go forth and read.
• 'Our Last Guest', a short story by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, is beautifully eerie and poignant. Now I can't wait to read her latest novel, Starling Days, as soon as I find the money.

Miscellaneous interesting things

• It's a few years old, but this Japan Times article on 'an “art collective” of “ultra-technologists”' is still worth a look. (Full disclosure: I haven't actually read the whole article yet, but I thought the photos of teamLab's 'A Forest Where Gods Live' exhibition were too striking to not share.) 
• The Smithsonian website has a short history of gendered kids' clothing, which shows how the idea of pink as a girls' colour is only relatively recent. I'd also like to see a more in-depth look at how gendered clothing was marketed though, since the article moves over that part a bit too quickly for me.

That's all for this week. Don't forget to let me know if you have any suggestions of alternative names for this series (column? category?). If I don't receive any suggestions, I will most likely end up going with a terrible 'link'-based pun. You have been warned.