Despite divergences of opinion amongst Muslim religious scholars as to whether covering the face of a woman in Islam is compulsory or not, practice testifies that many Muslim women customarily do....
The show opens with a vista that’s achingly familiar for me — though I know it’s shot in British Columbia, that great stock replacement for the Pacific Northwest, it feels like home. The...
GamerGate’s toxic torrent has been at once enfeebling and enervating. Its furious assault on, chiefly, women in games and those who espoused anything approximating feminist views therein has had...
Irony rides a pale horse. Where have all the Panzers gone? The architects of blitzkrieg have been reduced to legs and tails and hooves as Patton and Zhukov strangle the Thousand Year Reich. Oblivious...
At a time when bullets and swords kill in droves, Malala Youzrafi’s story and the honour awarded to her in shape of the Nobel peace prize this month is a humbling reminder of the power of good...
Is Outlander ‘the feminist answer to Game of Thrones,’ as some people seem to be billing it? That would depend, one supposes, on which definition of feminism is being used. If ‘feminism’...
The remarkable and sinister “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” begins in abrupt fashion. Jeremiah a Kentucky farmer wrestles with his daughter Sarah. She stabs him with a headless chicken, an act both...
Showtime’s The Affair is generating a great deal of buzz on the fall television schedule, as a show that might provide an intriguing narrative approach and some insight into the way we view men,...
The foundations of modern conservatism have always been nebulous. It is less a defined set of principles than a reactionary disdain for change and bleary-eyed nostalgia for some imaginary pastoral...
The life of a socially conscious American Horror Story fan is rarely an easy or enviable one. Actually, the life of a socially conscious, feminist horror fan is no walk in the park, generally...
