Review: World War Z
Hunkered down with the living dead scraping at the door Brad Pitt’s Gerry Lane states, “Movement is life.” For over a decade that’s exactly what the Zombie genre has been doing, moving...
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Paula Deen, Racial Slurs and White Resentment in ‘PC America’
US celebrity chef Paula Deen is no stranger to controversy, but last week, the furore she caused may have marked the start of a downward career slide as information surfaced from a deposition...
Steubenville and Rape Culture – Why women can’t feel free in Western Societies
When important media outlets such as CNN sympathize openly with the rapists, it is about time we as a society begin to think about what is wrong with us. That is precisely what occurred recently in...
Review: Annamarie Jagose, Orgasmology
Annamarie Jagose, Orgasmology, Duke UP, 2013. Does orgasm have a history? Queer theorist Annamarie Jagose’s new book attempts to answer this question with a carefully researched journey through the...
Review: ABC’s Mistresses
As soon as I hit ‘play,’ bodies started writhing and undulating all over the screen. I scrolled down carefully to determine whether I’d accidentally loaded soft porn, but I hadn’t, and thus I...
Parents Just Don’t Understand – On Protecting Children At Risk
Emily Lindin is a blogger who has been posting her 6th grade diary entries online every day. A couple of months into the entries, her 11-year-old self lies on her parents’ bed and tries to think of...
Review: NBC’s Hannibal
When it comes to Bryan Fuller, I have come to expect a certain kind of television. Hypersaturated colours, dream-like settings, quirky and enduring characters, a hint of darkness; his television is...
Review: Arrested Development Season 4
The long-delayed fourth season of Fox cult hit Arrested Development debuted on Netflix this weekend, to cries of delights from fans—10% of whom proceeded to marathon the show, consuming all 15...
What Makes a Baby? An Inclusive Children’s Book
Sometimes, it takes a community to build a book. Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth’s What Makes A Baby started as the little Kickstarter project that could, and bloomed into something much larger as...
On Oklahoma and Progressives Who Gloat About Suffering in Red States
It’s a pretty familiar meme by now. After the explosion at the West Fertilizer Plant in West, Texas, some progressives couldn’t wait to weigh in on how Texans had deregulated business, implying...