They Can’t Take That Away From Me
On (Re)Reading Toni Morrison’s Jazz Why do I love this story? Is it just the sheer bliss of Morrison’s words spilling across the page, yes, like the jazz of the title, uncontained, perfect, prose you can dance to? It’s her writing, yes, the beauty of it, but more besides. It’s a story–is it ever a [...]
...read moreHow Come It’s Never Joss’ Fault? The Scapegoating of Female Creators in Pop Culture
I got into one of those discussions about Buffy the other day. You know, the one where you get all excited because you’re talking to a fellow fan and you want to bask in the greatness and talk about some of the terrific characterisation that went on, and then, well, they have to bring up [...]
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WorldCupWorldCupWorldCupWorldCup
Anyone else very, very excited about it? Who are you all rooting for? And also you’re welcome for these photos of World Cup players in their skivvies. And here’s the article about the cover story.
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But he’s an artist! She’s a “drunk cow”! What do you MEAN he can’t rape her?
Sexual assault trigger warning. You know the drill. Last month, I was graciously allowed to write a guest post here on Feministe – about Russian artist Ilya Trushevsky, and how people are defending him much like the fools who defend Roman Polanski. Gee, I had no idea how right I was. I mean, I knew [...]
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