My week is up!
Hello everyone, again. My week here is just about up (although I still have about an hour and a half here on the west coast of the US.). I wish time and circumstance (a grueling heatwave) allowed me to post more, but I got a few good posts here. I probably should have signed up [...]
...read moreFemale Noir: Rewriting a Genre
As I’ve mentioned before (and, as is obvious to anyone who’s read my blog,) I have a bit of a thing for mysteries and hardboiled noir. I’m by no means an expert on either genre, admittedly, but it’s a hobby interest of mine. I just really love the way gender plays out in them: in [...]
...read moreOpen Thread: When Art and Ideals Collide
When we look at art, pop culture, and media on feminist and progressive blogs, sometimes it seems all too easy to force the discussion into a simple good/bad debate: See this movie because it has a strong female character. Don’t read this book because it’s full of stereotypes. This work is feminist. This film is [...]
...read moreLove Crime/Hate Crime: Banning Baby Be-Bop
[Ginny Maziarka] cautioned that her group would let people know that the library was not a safe place unless it segregated and labeled YA titles with explicit content. I’ve always thought of the public library as being a safe place. Part of it is just the way I’ve always romanticized books in my head, but [...]
...read moreNo, I said, ” ‘ello,” but close enough.
Hello, hello; is anyone out there? It’s another guest blogger for you to meet! My name is Steph, and I’m writing to you in the midst of a heatwave in otherwise beautiful Portland, Oregon. I suppose I’ll begin with the definitions, though beyond the basics, I’ve never been very good at them. I’m a 22-year-old [...]
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