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Fascinating article on estrogen and its under-studied relationship to psychosis. In fact, estrogen seems comprehensively under-studied and under-explained. I am a conventionally well-educated Western woman and I had no idea what perimenopause was until my periods changed into the prom scene from Carrie (not the more discreet locker room scene, as previously had been the case).
William Alexander, Nomad: Gabe’s adventures as Earth’s ambassador to the universe continue: he connects to the previous ambassador, whose attempt to figure out how the genocidal Outlast are spreading has left her visually impaired, as well as the Kaen ambassador, who turns out to be descended from the Maya people who left thousands of years ago (in a neat reversal of the “aliens built the pyramids” canard). Struggling with ICE as well as the Outlast, he tries to make a fragile peace. (Alexander was writing about warehouses full of kids separated by chain link fences and mylar blankets a few years before Trump, because they existed before Trump.)
Omar El Akkad, American War: In the future, America descends into civil war after climate change and other disasters lead the national government to (try to) ban fossil fuels. Sarat, a refugee girl, becomes a terrorist after a massacre at her refugee camp, recruited by a man funded by a foreign empire that wants the civil war to keep going. I did not like it for the same reason that I did not like Naomi Alderman’s The Power: it’s a straight up role reversal (which can also read as revenge fantasy) that doesn’t illuminate anything in the way I like speculative fiction to do; to me it’s just non-sf literary fiction with a search/replace. Also, apparently this future South has anti-Catholic bias but not anti-black bias; I’m not saying that’s impossible, because people are strange, but I have questions about the worldbuilding.
William Alexander, Nomad: Gabe’s adventures as Earth’s ambassador to the universe continue: he connects to the previous ambassador, whose attempt to figure out how the genocidal Outlast are spreading has left her visually impaired, as well as the Kaen ambassador, who turns out to be descended from the Maya people who left thousands of years ago (in a neat reversal of the “aliens built the pyramids” canard). Struggling with ICE as well as the Outlast, he tries to make a fragile peace. (Alexander was writing about warehouses full of kids separated by chain link fences and mylar blankets a few years before Trump, because they existed before Trump.)
Omar El Akkad, American War: In the future, America descends into civil war after climate change and other disasters lead the national government to (try to) ban fossil fuels. Sarat, a refugee girl, becomes a terrorist after a massacre at her refugee camp, recruited by a man funded by a foreign empire that wants the civil war to keep going. I did not like it for the same reason that I did not like Naomi Alderman’s The Power: it’s a straight up role reversal (which can also read as revenge fantasy) that doesn’t illuminate anything in the way I like speculative fiction to do; to me it’s just non-sf literary fiction with a search/replace. Also, apparently this future South has anti-Catholic bias but not anti-black bias; I’m not saying that’s impossible, because people are strange, but I have questions about the worldbuilding.
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I recently was diagnosed with ADHD, and learned that a lot of women my age were never diagnosed b/c most of the research was done on boys and women manifest symptoms differently, so most girls were just not diagnosed. I missed out on medication and treatment for almost 40 years because it was assumed that studying boys was good enough.
I just... my anger over how much women's health is ignored in studies (more importantly, in FUNDING studies) so that there is such little info about really important stuff for women that has real consequences for their lives, their families, their kids, and so on is just HULK SIZED.
I am sorry that you've graduated to the Prom Scene from Carrie. Hopefully that won't last for too terribly long, and that your next step is better and more comfortable for you. Because UGH.
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