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For whatever reason, I cannot get livejournal to format this post properly so I'm just going to link to it on my other blog:

Judy Grahn, The Work of a Common Woman (1985)

If the stories in 2008’s   Mammoth Book of SF 21 were particularly concerned with death, annihilation and endings, the overarching theme in this collection from 1992 seems to be a questioning of the relationship between concepts of nature and normality.  Some of the best stories collected here look at the ways in which nature, as a concept, is ( Read more... )

"The taboo on anger is especially - although by no means exclusively or inclusively - directed against girls. And when the directive, ‘Nice girls don’t get angry’ is internalized, it can have damaging effects. It can act as an internal break on a girl or woman’s ability to assert herself. Wary of the consequences of feeling anger, she becomes ( Read more... )

Albert Nobbs is a film which I found both impressive and disappointing.  It’s unusually intelligent about gender but it also contains some of the weaknesses that often undermine the representation of LGBT characters in film and, ultimately, it left me feeling ambivalent.

Set in nineteenth-century Ireland, the film centres on the figure of Albert ( ( Read more... )

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"When feminism exploded into my life, it gave me a vision of the world totally different from everything I had assumed or hoped. The concept of a feminist literature offered the possibility of pride in my sexuality. It saved me from either giving up writing entirely, or the worse prospect of writing lies in order to achieve some measure of grudging ( Read more... )

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"Throughout my life somebody has always tried to set the boundaries of who and what I will be allowed to be: if working class, an intellectual, upwardly mobile type who knows her place, or at least the virtues of gratitude; if a lesbian, an acceptable lesbian, not too forward about the details of her sexual practice; if a writer, a humble, ( Read more... )

 "I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

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