Category: Pop Culture
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Selfies – “Electronic Masturbation?”
Written and posted for new blog, Fanny Pack, on 19th November 2014. Please head over there and follow them for more of the same Feminist articles written by myself and others! Today’s technological advances have made it possible for us to make as many self-portraits as many times a day, hour, or even minute, in any…
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The Most Ridiculous Bits of Twilight That you Probably Missed
A/N: Originally posted 14/03/13 on my now defunct Tumblr. I would like to start this post with a disclaimer, maybe even an apology. After all, no self-respecting geeky feminist can admit to actually enjoying one of the most hated book series’ in recent pop cultural history, can she? I would like to do that, but…
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Make Your Ultimate Disney-owned Property Team in #TheBigFour Game!
This started as a little time-waster game at the comic book company I work for (Cosmic Anvil – producers of the Age of Revolution comic book series) but we found it so much fun I decided to spread it out into the wider world! To form your team, all you have to do is choose ONE character…
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A Response to ‘Women Against Feminism.’
Imagine this: The year is 2014. You are a white Western woman. You wake up in the morning in a comfortably sized house or flat. You have a full or part-time job that enables you to pay your rent or mortgage. You have been to school and maybe even college or university as well. You…
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Superman Returns & Man of Steel: Man vs. Myth
“Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Regions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic magic ring of myth.” – Joseph Campbell, The Hero…
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Godzilla vs. MUTO vs. Humanity: Who are the real monsters?
SPOILERS AHEAD. Ye have been warned. I love the Fantasy genre and I love the Sci-Fi genre. But….Sci-Fi holds a special place in my heart. This isn’t because I think it is inherently better than Fantasy, it’s a personal opinion. A personal opinion that I think stems from the general but fundamental difference between…
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The Problem with Graphic Novels
I have loved comic books right from when I first learnt how to read. It started with Tintin and Asterix and Obelix as a child, which my mum introduced me to. I later discovered superheroes as a teenager – Batman and X-Men were (and still are) particular favourites. Not long after that I started…
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Disability Visibility in Comics & Manga
Roughly a year ago now I started reading a manga called Gangsta online and became pretty much hooked from the first few pages. I lapped up every chapter that was available, and every subsequent chapter that was painfully slowly uploaded by the scanlators (I would explain what a ‘scanlator’ is, but the clue…
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Sparkly Vamps vs. Groggy Heroines: A possibly controversial Twilight/Hunger Games analysis.
It seems like decades has passed since I stayed up all night to read the entirety of New Moon in my room, lying on my bed on my stomach, legs crossed in the air in the manner that all teenage girls seem to read books in films. My mum came in at about 6:00am and…
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What RuPaul’s Drag Race Taught Me About Being A Woman
“In a male dominated society, dressing as a woman can seem like treason.” – RuPaul Charles My favourite reality-contest-show-thing, RuPaul’s Drag Race – in all its glorious camp and absurdity – presents a perfect case to prove the feminine mystique. Drag performed with such professionalism and aptitude in the show, that it lays bare just…
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