Feature today in the Women section in Guardian G2, Six leading feminists recall the writing that first opened their eyes to the women's movement.

You know, I don't recall any of the works of feminism that I read 'opened my eyes' to the subject: they confirmed my existing predisposed notions, they perhaps expanded my thoughts, and were gratifying in ( Read more... )

intertext has a lovely post about childhood reading of fantasy and sf, which reminded me of a post I meant to make and got distracted.

While on one of the panels at Wiscon I averred that reading The Left Hand of Darkness in my early 20s was what got me into reading sff. I had read sf before then, but very little of it in book form, as far as I can remember ( Read more... )

This sounds like excellent nostalgic fun: Great British Comics by Paul Gravett & Peter Stanbury, reviewed by Michel Faber:
A scholarly history is traced in eight substantial chapters, each exploring the evolution of the medium through a different lens: class relations in "For Richer, For Poorer", femininity in "Jolly Hockey Sticks To Sheroes", and ( Read more... )

Went to see the movie Aeon Flux yesterday with owlfish. Enjoyable in a non-taxing, non-pushing any genre or narrative boundaries way. But really not very much like the original (quite apart from the extreme stylisation of AF's look in the original, probably not achievable with a human body), except for the names of the characters and places, the general ( Read more... )