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Adventures in Feministory: Assia Djebar
In the midst of her university years, Djebar published her first two novels, La Soif and Les Impatients (she also took on her pen name, fearing that her father wouldn’t approve of her writing). The novels were much less politicized than her later writing and received... Read more »
Bechdel Test Canon: Me Without You
Writer-director Sandra Goldbacher’s 2001 feature Me Without You champions the girl who gets overlooked and now serves as further evidence for the kind of actress Michelle Williams was to become. Attempting a British accent, Williams plays mousy intellectual Holly. At first glance,... Read more »
Thursday Night 'Lights: Liz Lemon Needs a Divorce From Tina Fey
In this week’s TNL, it’s all about 30 Rock—specifically, the problem that arises from Tina Fey so closely identifying with her character, Liz Lemon. This week’s episode especially magnified the havoc this wreaks on her long-suffering fictional alter-ego, in both her... Read more »
Bechdel Test Canon: Please Give
Nicole Holofcener once again foregrounds female subjectivity in Please Give, which uses white women’s tears to comment on sisterhood, motherhood,... Read more »
Project Runway All Stars: When Pigs Cry
Our Project Runway All Stars designed for “megacelebrity” (and plush puppet) Miss Piggy last night:
Nothing weird about this promo photo at all. Why do you... Read more »
On Our Radar
Here’s what we’ve been reading this week.
We need to be careful not to let our talk of Paula Deen slip into schaudenfreude.
You know, the whole “Shit [blank] Says to…[blank]” meme has proven to be a... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Finding Autism in Popular Fiction
Of course one doesn’t have to go finding autism in popular fiction—it’s the subject of intense cultural fascination right now, so it’s just there, everywhere. In novels like Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and Jodi Picoult... Read more »
The 99%: Undercover Boss and the Undervalued Worker
Unions are supposed to help workers have jobs that are safe, fairly compensated, and have opportunities for upward mobility. But unions are having trouble doing that these days, in large part because so many legislators and executives (like the ones on Undercover Boss) are going so far to limit... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Autism and Horror
In mainstream film, autistic characters seem to appear most frequently in two types of movies: award-grubbing dramas and horror films. Both genres stick to a disappointingly narrow range of tropes.
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Sm{art}: The Colors of Coco Riot
Bright and graphic illustrations, installations on bathroom politics, and back-page comics for the fabulous Shameless mag? Artist Coco Riot does it all!
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