Feminism: It’s Necessary
My current laptop was purchased around early March this year – an act of necessity after its predecessor suddenly carked it. Though I ported all my files across, the one thing I didn’t do – have never...
View ArticleWhy Teaching Equality Hurts Men
Don’t let the title put you off. This isn’t what you think. With few exceptions, there comes a point in every little girl’s life when she first suffers exclusion on the basis of gender. For me, this...
View ArticleOnce Upon A Time
I started watching Once Upon A Time a few days ago, intrigued by the idea of fairy tale characters with amnesia being slowly reawakened to themselves in the modern world. Despite my initial misgivings,...
View ArticleThe Male Gaze & The Magicians
Right now, I’m a third of the way through Lev Grossman’s The Magicians, a book whose paciness, premise and execution I’m thus far enjoying, but which is nonetheless conspiring to irk me on gender...
View ArticleThe X Files: S1 & S2
Recently, I’ve started watching my way through The X Files, a show that was big enough to amorphously dominate my pop cultural recollections of tween- and teenhood, but which, with the exception of two...
View ArticleThe X Files: S3 & S4
I’ve now reached the end of S4 of The X Files, and am happy to say that I’m still enjoying the show. Granted, it hasn’t improved on race issues, which has lead to some truly cringeworthy moments – as I...
View ArticleRageblogging: The Rod Rees Edition
Sometimes, I read a thing, and despite whatever mixture of rage, incredulity, consternation and general agogness it provokes in me, I nonetheless manage to sit down, muster my thoughts in an orderly...
View ArticleHawaii Five-0: Thoughts
I started watching the Hawaii Five-0 remake on LoveFilm Instant in a fit of cynical boredom. I expected it to be hilariously terrible; I expected to get ten, maybe fifteen minutes into the first...
View ArticleSeeming Female: Gender In Digital Spaces
The myth of the Fake Geek Girl and her perfidious sister, the Fake Gamer Girl, is like a pervasive popcultural weed. No sooner has the concept been debunked, uprooted and flung on the fire in one...
View ArticleGender, Orphan Black & The Meta Of Meta
Recently, my husband and I burned through S1 of Orphan Black, which, as promised by virtually the entire internet, was awesome. But in all the praise I’d seen for it, a line from one review in...
View ArticleRyan Boudinot and the Peril of MFAs
Trigger warning: references to child abuse. For the most part, MFA students who choose to write memoirs are narcissists using the genre as therapy. They want someone to feel sorry for them, and they...
View ArticleWestworld: (De)Humanising the Other
Warning: total spoilers for S1 of Westworld. Trigger warning: talk of rape, sexual assault and queer death. Note: Throughout this review, it will be necessary to distinguish between the writers of...
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