New Yorkers who had been following the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case got a nasty shock this Saturday. In my case, it was broken to me gently. While I was picking up a soda in my local bodega, a...
HBO's True Blood, a vampire and lust-filled adaptation of the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, has been captivating summer audiences for three seasons now with Alan Ball at the helm....
During the 1990s, Ireland emerged from the oppressive theocracy of the Catholic Church. The progress began a decade earlier but with the Celtic Tiger and throwing off of shivering prayers, there was...
Lisa Isherwood and Mark Jordan, Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots: Essays in Honour of Marcella Althaus-Reid, SCM Press, 2010. Argentinian theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid was a pioneer in the field...
There is, perhaps, no politician more poetic than Sarah Palin. Yes, yes, I know: Contain your rage. What I mean by this is that Sarah Palin simply does not think in prose. Not for her, the...
Feminism FOR REAL, edited by Jessica Yee, Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 2011 Mainstream feminist activism and academics, even in the 21st century, have continued to be overly-invested in...
Deciphering the universe of Hindi soaps demands an astute eye for the texture of relationships within joint families. A few clarifications, hence, for folk unfamiliar with the nuances of an Indian...
If the international spread of SlutWalk means anything, it means this: You should never underestimate the power of a simple idea. Nor should you expect that idea to remain simple for very long....
Adam Kostko, Awkwardness, O books, 2010 It's a sign of a good piece of cultural criticism that it makes you re-evaluate a piece of art you'd previously discarded as uninteresting or even unpleasant....
H.R. 3 has been protested almost since the day it was introduced. The “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” which does pretty much what it says on the tin -- imposes a series of draconian...
