I watched The Last Jedi on Saturday.

So here be spoilers. You have been warned. Proceed at your own discretion.

( Spoilers. Like. For the entire movie. I warned you. )

When I'm all grown up, I want to be like:

• Cat Grant &
• Diane Lockhart &
• Alex Danvers &
• Lyla Michaels &
• Elizabeth Weir &

So, I realized I haven't posted in like four weeks and since I'll be off the grid for another two weeks from tomorrow, I decided to give you a little update.

( My life is boring. BORING. )

So, I still haven't written another word for my thesis but I did do an astonishing amount of reading, at least judging from all the colorful post-its and pagemarkers I stuck in the library books on my cupboard and thanks to the wonderful recommendations from immertreu (thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!) I did find some literature specializing on Stargate ( ( Read more... )

Okay, so I went to a left-wing conference on security politics (or, as we like to call it, peace politics. Because words matters, you guys.) in the last two days and again, I'm wondering why the hell I still do that. It's not like it was terrible or anything, in fact there were a lot of interesting panels and panelists. I'm just really tired of the ( Read more... )

Once again, it's International Women's Day and I'm getting pretty pissed at all the "Give your lady some flowers today!" and "Hey, guys, treat your lady to something nice today!" posts that keep coming up in my Facebook timeline. I don't want flowers and chocolates, I want equal fucking rights and equal pay, I don't want to have to be afraid when I ( Read more... )

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So. It's that time of semester again. (taking off a month from work to write at least one twenty pages paper, better two, I mean.)

This semester's first try: a paper about military women in the Vietnam War going by the (tentative) title of So Women Weren’t There: Female Soldiers in the Vietnam War - In-Country and Back in the World. and well, the ( Read more... )

A very happy International Women's Day to all you wild women on my flist \o/ May you annoy the shit out of every misogynist that crosses your path and be so fabulous that they will feel like worthless worms in your presence and an awesome day to you, too!

(no, I'm not drunk and/or high, that's my usual sober self.)

But. It's Women's History Month again, y'all! My favorite month, right after December and I can't believe it took me until today to realize that it's March already woohoo! Anyway, let's all give a warm big welcome to Women's History Month and bask in the glow of (hopefully) thousands of articles about women making history (and conviniently forget ( Read more... )