Why All Writers Should Play Dungeons & Dragons
Roleplaying games, once considered nerdy, are getting popular—and for writers, readers, and storytellers, they’re full of potential {read} {wayback machine link}
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde review – prophetic and necessary
The black lesbian feminist writer and poet, who died 25 years ago, is better known than ever, her words often quoted in books and on social media {read}
Anne Sexton’s Sensual Love Poem “Song for a Lady,” in an Animation Inspired by Oliver Sacks
“So many doors open when you are present with an angle.”
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde review – prophetic and necessary
The black lesbian feminist writer and poet, who died 25 years ago, is better known than ever, her words often quoted in books and on social media
This Future Looks Familiar: Watching Blade Runner in 2017
I would not call the world of Blade Runner strange, because it’s the opposite of strange. It’s familiar. If you subtract the flying cars and the jets of flame shooting…
I Saw “Mother!” So You Don’t Have To
Mother! is what happens when a dude has an idea he thinks is brilliant and no one checks him on it.
Hugh Hefner: Misogyny, Sexual Exploitation and White Male Liberalism
So this fantasyland of “free love” was really about emotional manipulation of women who were financially and emotionally vulnerable. And so it begins. Hugh Hefner, the Playboy King is dead,…
Women Aren’t Nags—We’re Just Fed Up
Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.
Hugh Hefner is no ‘hero’ – he built an empire on misogyny
We shouldn't let the Playboy founder's death mask the fact that he normalised the sexual objectification of women, argues Claire Heuchan Reading all of the glowing tributes to Hugh Hefner,…
The Medieval Tropics
In much of the tropics, insects, heat, and humidity meant that even if texts were written on palm leaves and animal skins, they had to be deliberately preserved or copied…