I'm retooling my Intro to Women's Studies syllabus for the coming semester, and I've decided to have a pretty big film component to it. I've created five categories of movies that more or less correspond to the material I'm covering in class. The idea is that Sally Student will pick one film from each category, read the assigned readings, and write ( Read more... )

I admit, I wrote this story entirely so I could engage in this particular form of pronoun fuckery.

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(I had a reply to andrewducker's link post here that got way too long, so I figured I'd bring it over here ( Read more... )

We went to see Gone Girl today, and I have some thoughts on it. However, they are super-spoilery, so if you intend to see the movie, trust me that you'd rather go into it knowing as little as possible ( Read more... )

A while back, I got a great comment on my 'Bless Your Heart' author's notes that went like this:
I liked the story. The issue you raised of lesbian performance and the male gaze, got me wondering about this whole genre of BL with its principally female audience (understand that I quite enjoy said genre and am not trying to criticize it). I feel ( Read more... )