What's got my attention this week #34

Links, recs and whole bunch of things you might find interesting

Graphic novelist, Posy Simmonds, 78, became the first Brit and only the 5th woman to win the Grand Prix at the prestigious Angoulême comics festival. I really recommend Gemma Bovery, Tamara Drewe and Cassandra Darke (above).

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• Why Cindy Sherman isn’t going quietly into “this ageing process”.
• Between the reality and the caricature of living alone. This, by Poorna Bell, is my piece of the week.
• Also loved this piece by Jody Day about no longer recognising herself in the mirror, and think you will too.
• How it feels to be told “it’s all in your head” for twenty years. This story about medical gaslighting will be familiar to far too many women.
• It’s time to stop ignoring all the mundane miracles in your life.
• 51 years after Roe v Wade, Jill Filipovic examines what has been lost.
• Sex myths that long-term couples should ignore.
• Goodbye – and good riddance – to the era of the professional spouse. (Let’s be honest here: wife.) £