In an intense two-month sprint, the DH Lab at MIT hit the ground running with the Gender/Novels project. Their mission? To teach a program to deliver meaningful data about gender from a truly colossal number of books on a sentence-by-sentence level of detail—and to establish their new lab as a force on campus. This is what they learned.
Author: Alison Lanier
Alison Lanier is an MFA candidate at University of Massachusetts Boston, a member of the Writers' Room of Boston, and a founding editor of Mortar Magazine. She also serves as an editor at Critical Flame and as an editorial assistant at AGNI, and previously at Counterpoint and The Wellesley Review. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared at Atticus Review, The Establishment, Burningword, Origins, and elsewhere.
Let Us Now Praise Brutal Women
Suddenly, massive blockbusters resolve around the power of a woman’s body, to a greater degree than its sexualization. These brutal women are the wickedly, unapologetically powerful characters redrawing the genres that so long excluded them—and doing so not as novelties, but as icons.
Daisies in the Age of Trump
The two Maries seem precisely the opposite of all the fear and worry that I’d felt in the Women’s March.