2025-12-29 18:28:42
Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors
RE: #Unicode is a wonderful thing.
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Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator search to gain clarity soon https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/22/dallas-cowboys-defensive-coordinator-search-clarity-soon-2026/882976…
What We Build — #leadership
Watching Mark Carney give his speech Canada's path forward • La voie que le Canada a choisie.
As an American watching our autohegemoncide, seeing us hurting our closest friends, I am glad for the clarity of this speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve4FwAexdSQ
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website
to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism,
he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change,
after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday
that defies …
Executives don’t want to just sell juice. They want to empower you with an agentic, customizable, and seamless juice experience.
But no one has stopped to think about what any of that actually means. Before designing a "solution," you need a good, *shared* problem definition. If the beautiful clarity within the design team shatters on contact with any handoff, you didn't finish the job.
Read more in this week's Product Picnic:
5-time Pro Bowler Maxx Crosby needed rest but the Raiders need clarity https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/01/5-time-pro-bowler-maxx-crosby-needed-rest-but-the-raiders-need-clarity/
🎻 The best recording ever of Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 is from 1962. The GOAT Jascha Heifetz with unparalleled precision, clarity, and musicality. And that transition from the first into the second movement… 🤯
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw7o3mURxqw
Executive presence is not about how you stand or what you wear.
It comes from four qualities you build from the inside out: care, clarity, curiosity, and courage.
The leaders who inspire others stop performing and start living these qualities.
What would change if you focused on these instead of trying to project confidence?
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Trump, Vance, and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Hate (Andrew Weinstein/Moral Clarity)
https://andrewweinstein.substack.com/p/trump-vance-and-the-mainstreaming
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p5#a260116p5
How about let’s not?
#apple #liquidAss
From a system, I want confidence, certainty, and clarity.
@… for clarity: I don't see pkgbase as strange, or dangerous.
It's sometimes misunderstood. Sometimes the big picture is not seen.
The 15.0 errata page, for example. The recent statement about major upgrades from 14.3 is wrong:
"systems installed with pkgbase(7) must backup and reinstall"
– that's unneces…
Guard or tackle? Cowboys Pro Bowler Tyler Smith seeks positional clarity in meeting with Brian Schottenheimer
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-offensive…
so, the list.
while i do not think that "making a list" is inherently wrong, doing something like that requires a clarity of purpose and a specific, achievable objective.
i do not think this particular list fits the requirements
Just my luck to be visiting Antigua and Dominica on day #Drumpf admin declares the two islands as subject to US Travel Ban?
https://www.imidaily.com/north-america/ant
Whatever happens to our democracy, history will remember our 3 good SCOTUS justices as a voice of clarity when civil society was unraveling around them.
Future generations will point to their writing and say, “Look at this. It’s not like people didn’t understand what was happening at the time. They knew perfectly well.”
EDIT: I said Sotomayor at first; this is Jackson!! “What would you do with a brain if you had one, Paul?” I’m sure I have no idea.
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💥2000 meters to Andriivka
The closer you get to combat, the more jarring it becomes.
Death comes randomly.
The noise is terrifying;
the fear is stifling.
And most people can’t bear to see what war actually does to the human body
—how a brief instant can transform a living, breathing person
into ugly scraps of flesh.
The fighting in Ukraine has, in many ways,
transformed the nature of warfare.
As many as 80 percent of battle casu…
Sens. Mark Warner and Josh Hawley introduce a bipartisan bill that would require companies and US agencies to submit quarterly reports on AI-related job impacts (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/ai-jobs-act-warner-hawley.html
Tyler Smith seeking clarity on position future for Cowboys' offensive line https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-seeking-clarity-on-position-future-for-cowboys-offensive-line
Ukraine is where despot empires break - from Napoleon to Hitler to Putin, Ukraine is the battlefield where things are decided.
Giorgio reviews the history with many maps and clarity, the type of reporting we no longer find in the USA.
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What if real executive presence wasn't about how you look or sound?
The leaders who inspire us aren't following scripts. They're living four qualities:
Care - paying real attention
Clarity - seeing what matters
Curiosity - asking deeper questions
Courage - facing hard truths
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FPF Releases Updated Report on the State Comprehensive Privacy Law Landscape
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@…
Also in Asterisk: an interesting article about the history of the DSM-5, and its critics.
> The psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams captures this concern with unusual clarity in her 2021 essay “Diagnosis and Its Discontents.” She reflects on a shift that began with the release of DSM-III, when psychiatry embraced a more descriptive, symptom-based diagnostic model. The change, she notes, quietly restructured how people speak about themselves in therapy. Once, a client might enter the roo…
Opinion | Japan’s New Clarity on Taiwan Is a Wake-Up Call - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/H40Vp
It pairs well with something that I think it was @… said at one point "the job of the senior engineer is to bring clarity"
So often in tech work we end up in a field of ambiguous possibilities, and people usually default to throwing habits and opinions out.
But it turns out, in a great many cases, _we can actually check what the right answer is_, and we should generally do that.
Tyler Smith seeking clarity on position future for Cowboys' offensive line https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/tyler-smith-seeking-clarity-on-position-future-for-cowboys-offensive-line
US Rep. Jamie Raskin demands CBS explain how it edited a recent Trump interview, saying Trump seems to be exercising "direct control" over editorial choices (Dominick Mastrangelo/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5631560-…
Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a "rolling scan" scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/01
Cowboys OL Tyler Smith to press coaches for clarity on position https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/05/cowboys-tyler-smith-left-guard-left-tackle-clarity/88034864007/
The Daily Wrap Up -- [Transcripts edited for clarity, flow and length] -- It has been another day, hasn't it? (Mary L Trump/The Good in Us)
https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-95f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p68#a260109p68
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MixWithMaryAnneHobbs
Clarity:
🎵 Reflex
#Clarity
https://claritymusik.bandcamp.com/track/reflex
This piece from @… is especially good. None of the pieces should be entirely unfamiliar to anybody who’s been paying attention — racism, how power self-perpetuates, the past, the future, denial — but Larson brings the big picture into focus with unusual clarity.
🧵
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/10/21/the-gops-new-new-jim-crow/
NFL clinching scenarios: How Broncos, Patriots and/or Rams can clinch playoff berths in Week 15
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The Daily Wrap Up -- [ Transcript edited for clarity, length and flow] -- Hi, welcome to Mary Trump Live. (Mary L Trump/The Good in Us)
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https://www.brichapman.com/p/the-4-cs-of-executive-presence-and?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=…
Few people would claim with absolute certainty to know how the pandemic began. Both sides are gathering evidence to support their case, yet neither can fully rule out the possibility put forward by the other. This lack of clarity is not unlike what we see with most emerging diseases. For instance, we still don’t know how the devastating Ebola outbreak in west Africa began in 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/25/covid-lab-leak-theory-right-conspiracy-science?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Research shows science and politics writing keeps getting harder to read. Many articles now require college-level (undergraduate) education or more to follow.
Clarity isn’t a luxury. It’s the difference between public engagement and public exclusion.
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