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…
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,…
How Writing Closed Captions Turned Me off TV For Good
Post-MFA, a writer spends time in the captioning trenches
How to Write About Your Ancestral Village
You buy a one-way ticket to Beijing, and tell your mother you are traveling alone to figure out if China might be the answer.