What's got my attention this week #29

A bumper list of links and recs

My woman of the week: Lesley Horton, a Canadian traffic reporter with Global News who called out the troll who’d been body shaming her for years. “This is what women my age look like”

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• Poet Benjamin Zephaniah died. 😞 Writers remembered him.
• Taylor Swift was named Time person of the year. Seems fair enough. But then “the internet” heralded the “year of the girl”. What does that really mean? Two writers tried to tackle it, in the Atlantic and the Guardian.
• Feeling emotionally numb? There’s a word for that.
• Love this piece by Grace Dent on life without booze.
• “Will 63 perhaps be my most beautiful year?” Now this is a 40 things by 40 list I can get on board with.
• There have also been two fascinating pieces on the gender binary this week: Who gets to play in women’s leagues? An…