Who is HBO’s Girls For?
Watching HBO’s Girls felt like standing around at a party with a bunch of people trading insider jokes I don’t get; at the same time that I was being welcomed as part of the club, it was obvious...
Category: Women
Hunger Games: The Revolution Might Be Televised
Fans of Suzanne Collins’ dark teen trilogy as well as newcomers to the series should find the film of The Hunger Games satisfying. It’s a gripping story, well-told. Four weeks after its release,...
The Trans-Vaginal Ultrasounds You Didn’t Hear About: Ignoring Anti-Choice Extremism in Texas
In February, the state of Virginia became a focal point of attention in the national media when its legislature attempted to pass a forced ultrasound law that required doctors to know the gestational...
Doing it for Themselves: Connecting Girls on International Women’s Day
8 March! Don’t we love 8 March? It is that wonderful day during the course of which we internationally celebrate women! Women are pretty great. I know because I am one of them. Women are, however,...
Review: Sex and Disability
Sex and Disability (ed. Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow), Duke University Press, 2012. Sex and Disability is a fascinating collection of essays bringing together two taboo topics, discussed from a...
What Love Looks Like: Seeing Valentine’s Day Anew
Who likes to show Valentine's Day a bit of love? Show of hands. I, for one, never have, because it has seemed to me that squishing expressions of love into one day of socially-approved...
Review: Doctor Who Christmas special
Doctor Who fans around the world were far more interested in the landfall of this year’s Christmas special, ‘The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe,’ than they were in the progress of NORAD...
Slumming: Consuming misery on reality TV
I have been in rickety condemned buildings that it was absolutely dangerous to go through! Found six families living in one miserably ventilated cellar—24 persons, 16 of them adults, living in the...
Is Department of Justice Action on Voter Suppression Too Little, Too Late?
The 2008 Obama campaign’s brilliance when it came to grassroots organising and get out the vote campaigns clearly terrified the right, which has responded with a campaign to eradicate voting rights...
Gendering Fairy Tales: Or, the Difference Between Grimm and Once Upon a Time
In the world of books, changing the gender of the protagonist apparently changes the genre; if it’s a woman, it’s chick lit, if it’s a man, it’s literary fiction. This trend can be seen...