More Than A Magazine, A Movement
Hope Singsen had done very little producing before she began putting together The #HealMeToo Festival, which just wrapped in New York City. She started with a plan to find a space to produce Skin, her solo show about the road and obstacles to healing and reclaiming intimacy after childhood sexual trauma, and to share that […]
“Girls of the Sun,” “Her Smell” and “Little” are three very different films with a similar focus: the tumultuous journeys of women who want more.
Many young women feel the need to coach themselves through moments where they are asking for things from others, no matter how small, because being “demanding like that” makes them feel less likeable and less loveable. “Shrill” shows them otherwise.
I think it is safe to say that my fire for poetry has been re-ignited. With all of these incredible collections, how could it not be? These are poems for understanding, compassion, anger and resistance.
Katherine Reki punctuates the end of each sentence with exuberant laughter, as if the world is a place of great joy. This is more a reflection of her good nature, because the focus of her work as an emerging filmmaker—”A Mother’s Blood,” about witchcraft accusations in Papua New Guinea—is anything but a laughing matter.
Imagine an app that tracks your movement wherever you go. Imagine that it sends notifications to a male member in your family whenever you check in at an airport. Imagine that it gives them the power, in just a few clicks on their own smartphone, of banning you from traveling altogether. This app is called Absher. You can find it at the Google Marketplace and in the Apple App Store.
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.
“Killing Eve,” “High Life” and “The Wind” feature female leads seeking thrills—and show us the danger of trying to put women in their place.
There is a lingering anxiety that our various performances of “black excellence” will somehow be undercut as fraudulent. I see that theme recurring throughout the film “Us.”
These are the only two female superhero leads that we have ever seen in Marvel or DC films, and whether it’s incidental or not, the two heroes tell us a lot about how our culture thinks about power, femininity and womanhood.