Happy news from Kat Stoeffel, at NYMag‘s ladyblog The Cut — “Notorious R.B.G. Gets Her Own Biography, From the People Who Made Her a Meme“:
Notorious R.B.G., the popular meme blog beloved by Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself, will soon be expanded into a full-blown biography of the Supreme Court Justice, co-authored by blog creator Shana Knizhnik and MSNBC reporter Irin Carmon. Combining reporting, feminist history, and photography, Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be an unobjective and irreverent celebration of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and role in the women’s movement, Carmon told the Cut…
Carmon sees R.B.G.’s recent elevation to Tumblr deity as a result of the general absence of “unapologetically fierce” women like Ginsburg in powerful positions, and of how outspoken Ginsburg has become in recent months (in particular, over her concern for the impact of the law on actual humans, a historic blind spot for the Supreme Court). “As the court has moved to the right and undone a lot of what R.B.G. and her generation fought for, she has let loose in a way that really resonates online, where people are frustrated about many of the same things,” Carmon (below) told the Cut…
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