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On the shore (Falmouth, Mass.)

Even though I took much of August and September off from regularly-scheduled blogging, I haven't done one of these posts since early summer so there's quite a bit accumulated on the interwebs to direct your attention to.

at the corner of your eye I put up the following reviews:

• Our Arcadia, a favorite novel by Robin Lippincott | 2012-09-25
• Just Before August Round-Up: a collective review of Virgins, The Accidental Feminist, The Gay Metropolis, Making Gay History, and Breeders | 2012-07-31
• America and the Pill, a cultural history of birth control pill | 2012-07-24
• I Do, I Don't, an anthology on gay marriage ca. 2004 | 2012-07-17
• Transitions of the Heart, an anthology by mothers of trans kids | 2012-07-10
• 13 books to read instead of Religious Right: The Greatest Threat to Democracy | 2012-06-12
• Big Sex, Little Death, Susie Bright's memoir | 2012-06-19

guest posts at In Our Words include:

• To Be and To Have: Reflections on Getting Gay Married | 2012-07-10
• Holding the Space: Thoughts on Being Queer Allies to Our Straight Co-Conspirators | 2012-08-01
• We Can Give Them Words: Clearing Space for Our Children to Explore Gender | 2012-08-13

at The Pursuit of Harpyness I contributed:

• The link to a great post from the Guardian on the junk science of sexual attraction.
• I wrote about the conservative study One Parent or Five, asking why the diversity of family forms generates so much anxiety (and in turn such poor scholarship!)
• I posted thoughts from Jay Smooth on rapper Frank Ocean's story about falling in love with a male friend.
• I asked the Harpies where they go for their local coffee fix (and shared my own Boston faves).
• A few things I would have written more about if time and energy had aligned.
• A rant about Boston Sports Club advertising (read: fat-shaming).
• Ten things I like about Hanna (in honor of our fast-approaching marriage).
• And finally, three Tuesday Teasers (links lists):
• #13: 2012-07-24
• #12: 2012-07-10
• #11: 2012-06-26

and a few Tumblr-length thoughts over at the feminist librarian reads:

• NOT back-to-school once again!
• I've been reading all these FEELS about parenting and marriage lately...
• instead of talking about [how] home-based births are "unsafe"...
• reading books about wage-work care-giving and motherhood...

Just today, I put up a farewell post at Harpyness; after nearly two years of blogging at what Hanna refers to as "the orange blog" I've decided it's time to move on. In part, the break I took from blogging in the run-up to our marriage helped me see how over-extended I've become on the interwebs. I'd like to re-dedicate myself to this space (the feminist librarian) in the months to come, as well as focusing more systematically on longer-term writing projects. 

In the immediate future, I'll be sharing more stuff about our wedding and book reviews as I am able; my new responsibilities at work are making for a hectic season and I find that I get home in the evenings with less writing energy than usual. I don't expect this to last, but please bear with me while it does -- I love meeting you in this space, and promise I will be here in the years to come. 

Incidentally, this is my 1000th post at annajcook.blogspot.com (which began life in 2007 as "The Future Feminist Librarian-Activist" in the spring before I embarked to graduate school in Boston.