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snippets of some random conversations from this week that made my day and related links:

Context:

Controversies around men wearing women clothes / why even clothes are gendered / the difference between attracted to men in women clothing as a woman and wanting to be like the men in women clothing as a woman / just wanting to be feminine in a way a man is
I shared a video of birds chirping heard from my room saying : one of the things I love about being at home is this pre-noon silence being drowned by birdsong
The authors having the same birthday month as me : Zora Neale Hurston (7th Jan 1891), Simone de Beauvoir (9th Jan 1908), Anne Brontë (17th Jan 1820), Edith Wharton (24th Jan 1862), Virginia Woolf (25th Jan 1882)
On the films from 'The Before Trilogy', the blurring of the line between the characters and the actors as they aged together and are also created by them. (Related interviews)
On bengali fried snacks and street food. (Bong Eats: my comfort bengali food channel)
Still haven't written anything, that would be three months of writing block T_T
The sad girl trope that has become so popular in recent years / have only read the classic sad girl-I'm not like other girls trope that is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. (Some Sylvia related links— Sylvia's Childhood Manuscript ; Lesbianism & Sexuality in Jar Bell Jar ; On the Friendship and Rivalry of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton ; Sylvia's Death by Anne Sexton ; Sylvia Plath and the Loneliness of Love; Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being.
Just a July conclusion: being in between things