Toilets, book bans and murderous mums

Museums Association lists all the recipients of the £24m arts council funding including the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

The Bronte Society

£100,000 to install fully accessible, environmentally sustainable toilets at the museum in Haworth, Yorkshire. (Geraldine Kendall Adams)

A columnist from The Canberra Times  discusses Cumberland City Council's deplorable ban on same-sex parents books.

I loved reading Day of the Triffds back when I was a girl. It didn't make me want to poison people or even devour them. I loved reading Wuthering Heights at the time but didn't wish to be a single person in that extremely frightening book. I've read a bunch of books to my children and they didn't grow up to be wild things, run chocolate factories or become muddle-headed. That, they have left to their aging mother. (Jenna Price)

Yes, the fact that children understand the concept of fiction is still something many people haven't come to terms with.

Bloody Disgusting features the latest episode of the podcast The Lady Killers: A Feminine Rage Podcast on Evil Dead Rise (2023).

The Lady Killers continue Murderous Moms Month by dissecting the taboo terrors in Lee Cronin’s shocking film. Co-hosts Jenn Adams, Mae Shults, and Rocco T. Thompson discuss their favorite franchise entries, the most upsetting kills, problematic narrative choices, and their undying affinity for wood chippers and chainsaws. Why is a killer mom so upsetting? What should Beth do about her impending arrival? Should we all read Wuthering Heights and is there anything Staffanie can’t do? They’ll chew on these questions and more as they celebrate a film that may or may not mean more to them than pizza. (Jenn Adams)