Disability Futures will have at least two more 20-person cohorts. Great, but "the feedback from the first class ... was frank: Do even better in the selection process." - The New York Times
The Mail on Sunday reported that the two actors had dropped out because of clashes that had taken place since rehearsals began. It said the row had left McKellen “under strain” and “in tears”. - The Guardian
And not just directors. "Most daycares operate on a traditional workday schedule that isn't suitable for the families of shift worker in industries like film and TV, emergency response, health-care and hotel services." - CBC
The ABA took its Twitter private after promoting a scientifically inaccurate anti-trans book to indie bookstores, apologizing, and then deleting the apology. - LitHub
Users claim they can "reality shift" to any fictional world; just, they say, "switch your consciousness to the right parallel universe." - Washington Post
Why? "Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow, one of Japan’s livelier practices, has objected that 'we independent artists are banned and totally deleted from the list of the designers.'" - The Observer (UK)
One descendant: "Everything that are and were essentially derived from their relationship to their community, and that's from their intellectual achievements to their wealth, which was stolen wealth." - NPR
"A nation’s archive ... is a living testament to the many facets of national identity and history." India's opaque plan for its national archives threatens all of that, a scholar says. - Contingent Magazine
"Across Africa, literary journals managed by young writers and artists are emerging with the aim of publishing both new and established voices, collaborating across geographies." - The New York Times
U.S. prosecutors want to return "a 10th-century Khmer sandstone statue said to have been plundered more than 20 years ago from a temple." - The New York Times
Whew, this time has been weird. "It was a fun challenge, and also, it just hit differently because we were in lockdown living in our fantasy world." - Variety
