Turned in my essays and found myself a new cheaper room with a window settee where I plan to read forever and ever, and also walk to uni from quite easily. Monday I'm moving my stuff and Tuesday I’ll be off to Barcelona for a month to stay with my dad and my little sisters. While there I'm also meant to read a lot about gender and fanfic since that ( Read more... )

Today’s been the day for thoughtfulness about freedom of speech, first a librarian wrote a wonderfully reasoned but very PC letter to a customer who wanted to ban a picture book about a gay weeding, then Jazzypom wrote a post about the unspoken fandom prohibition on criticism since it’s a "safe space to have fun in" and "real life is hard enough", ( Read more... )

Parallelisms between Chauvinism, Colonialism and class discrimination in "The Joys of Motherhood" and "Untouchable"

by Johanna Rullo

The "Joys of Motherhood" by Buchi Emecheta tells a story in which the white man, the colonialist, it's the outsider to a perfectly established society and whose intervention only harms this society's members, makes ( Read more... )

I have been forced to thought about an issue that, truth be told, I have been wondering about anyway: Are labels appropiate or necessary? Is the lack of labels a problem? I think it is, words are what the world is make of for me and if something cannot be named it almos cannot exist, I found something Darkmoon says in this presentation to be the perfect ( Read more... )