Though, seriously? Rhiannon Lucy Coslett wrote a piece for the New Statesman on the subject, because she felt trigger warnings held her back recovering from PTSD, and therefore, no one should get trigger warnings. Well, except may be a few spaces for survivors (but don't call them victims, because that smacks of "victimhood"), but she isn't clear ( Read more... )

So, I don't talk about the economy much. I mean, basically, you can't change the fact that you live during a recession, or at least a recession in part of the world, and all the doom predictions just make me weary. In the mean time, I have to get on with my life ( Read more... )

Writers among you, do you ever get that feeling that you're stalling? Like, you can string a sentence together and convey your meaning, and you can slip a theme in there and a plot, and tell something about your character, but that's it? There's no shine to it, no brilliance ( Read more... )

I read somewhere that a woman's group in the UK is planning to burn Fifty Shades of Grey because it encourages abusive relationships. Allow me to boggle at that ( Read more... )

American highways and byways are the dreamscape of my childhood, the result of a culture imported to all of the world, blended with local culture but unique only to one: its own. It's cultural appropriation as much as it's export; America chooses to export it but we're not forced to buy it. This dreamscape is a myth both cultural as well as almost ( Read more... )

Folks, I have a question.

See, we all hang out every day (or nearly every day) in fandom, and if you're like me, you hang out in slash fandom. Yet a majority of slash fandom would label themselves as straight. What is it like to be writing or reading slash in fandom, any fandom, when you're straight? Was there a first time when you encountered ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about Hawaii Five-0 a lot since it's been trying to claw back to its old level of goodness; thinking about what makes it work and why it's special to me when it's everything I shouldn't like. What I'm trying to figure out, and what I think has been a problem this season, is Five-0's identity ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. Lenkov et al.,

I exist.

I'm an educated, white, feminist woman, and I love your show. I exist.

I'm not your target audience, and I'm okay with that. Being a woman and a transformative artist, I'm used to reading between the lines of a text. I know that I and others like me barely make a dent in your viewing figures ( Read more... )

As regards the show in general...

Poll Hawaii Five-0

So, you know, once upon a time, I was in love with a show, and it burned me. It burned me badly, and because that's the way I roll, I left that fandom and meandered around a bit. Then I hit on Hawaii Five-0, and honestly, I was looking for a fun two weeks to entertain myself with and not at all a new canon to fall in love with ( Read more... )