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The 99%: "Finding North"
This is the second of three posts on films from the 2012 Sundance Film Festival addressing inequality, poverty, and... Read more »
Double Rainbow: A Quick Look at the Savant
In popular fiction, savant skills and autism are almost synonymous. Portraying a character as a savant has become a way of driving home the fact that the character is autistic. The savant archetype is glaringly problematic because of the cultural baggage associated with idea of the “savant,”... Read more »
Pop Pedestal: Paula Small from Home Movies
Welcome back to Pop Pedestal, the series where we pay tribute to pop culture personalities we admire. For this round we’re celebrating Paula Small, the too-laid-back-for-words mom from Home Movies.
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Douchebag Decree: Stephen "Republicans and Democrats Sitting Together is Like Date Rape" Moore
In the frenzy of cable news chatter that followed Tuesday’s State of the Union address, one pundit stood out in the crowd, a beacon on a douchebag hill. The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore out-... Read more »
Bechdel Test Canon: An Angel At My Table
Jane Campion’s biopic An Angel At My Table feels far more epic in its devotion to writer Janet Frame’s small moments than courtroom scenes that turn history into playacting and battle sequences that turn soldiers into figurines. These are the films women should be making.... Read more »
Bibliobitch: CALYX Journal is Still Going Strong
CALYX Journal begins its 36th year of publishing fine art and literature by women with its winter 2012 issue (vol. 27, no. 3). This self-described feminist literary journal allows women’s... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Mattie Ross
Mattie Ross, the young protagonist of the Coen brothers’ acclaimed 2010 film True Grit, is so compelling and memorable because she is so odd. Her eccentricities are characterized by what I would call “autistic difference” but, given the nature of the film, my aim is not read... Read more »
The 99%: "The Queen of Versailles"
Lauren Greenfield’s film The Queen of Versailles is both an infuriating and humanizing portrait of the economic collapse from the perspective of one of the country’s richest families.
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The Sky is Blue, Water is Wet, and the Oscar Nominations are a Big Feminist Disappointment
This morning, the nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards were announced. And this morning, as has happened every Oscar nominee morning for the past 83 years, the roster of hopefuls is... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Tucson Public School Officials Ban Ethnic Studies Program and Shelve Books
Straight from the “people still do this?” department, the Governing Board of the Tucson Unified School District responded to pressure from creepy Arizona Tea Party officials by dismantling the district’s Mexican-American Studies program, and... Read more »
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