Lisa Van de Ven

@Nanaaba @mediagfs Happy birthday Nana!

It’s my birthday! Gratitude time. If you’ve helped my career, parenting, life or @mediagfs 🙏🏿 If you’ve asked for advice or let me support your greatness 🙏🏿 Want to celebrate? Send a special $43 (x1, 2, or 3) gf.me/u/y5qkp6 ps thanks for the education & the jokes!

If he gets 72,000 retweets he gets a lifetime supply of peanut butter. Seems like a worthy cause to me.

"Genius itself, the way we typically conceive of it, remains infused with the male gaze, or perhaps more aptly, the male haze: It is gendered by implication." I'm a little late to it, but loved this story in @TheAtlantic. theatlantic.com/entertainment/…

I read #IllBeGoneInTheDark a couple weeks ago and was blown away by #MichelleMcNamara's writing. I could imagine it bringing new light to a case that had never been solved, and now it looks like it's done exactly that! #GoldenStateKiller huffingtonpost.ca/entry/golden-s…

ICYMI: These three noteworthy books allow readers an intimate view into one of today’s most divisive issues — @lisavandeven #WorldBookDay2018 #WorldBookDay ucobserver.org/culture/2018/0…

"A note on the sheep: it appears that they are the only animal in all of Catan. Strange. I cannot help but slightly mistrust this place." This may reveal me as the board game geek I am, but this had me cracking up. mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-d…

WASHINGTON -- The president's divorce lawyer says the president's personal lawyer, whose home was raided by the FBI, might rat out the president to the special counsel who has charged four members of the president's campaign, because he is afraid of being raped by black men.

How can recent fiction exploring the refugee experience help guide the ongoing discussion? My essay in the April edition of the @UC_Observer. ucobserver.org/culture/2018/0…

This story felt sadly familiar. twitter.com/LauraMLippman/…

The president, sounding tyrant-adjacent, floats the idea of pulling news outlets off the air for critical stories about him.

Another case of "how did this even make it through in the first place?". twitter.com/MsPackyetti/st…

@JodiLewchuk You're definitely one of the friends I was thinking of, since I know we've had several of these conversations over the past few years.

How is this even a thing in 2017? detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…

I feel like I should send this to all of my female friends of a certain age. oprah.com/sp/new-midlife…

He was way ahead of his time

@Donald_Knight It's been a while, but it looks like it's Alexandria, by Hush Homes.

Why TV needs more nasty women. My culture essay for the @UC_Observer. ucobserver.org/culture/2017/0…

@MacFrost Hi Carla - I'm happy to pass it on in private, except I can't DM you unless you follow me.

Long-time lurker. First-time (in a long while) poster. Putting my foot back in the Twitter pond after a long hiatus. How's everyone doing?

Can non-Canadians write a Canadian novel? My essay in the @UC_Observer. bit.ly/LYKQp0