Theodora Goss’ Big Idea
“[T]here’s almost always a female monster, and she’s almost always destroyed.” More from Theodora Goss on the big idea of her book, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, at Scalzi.com. (Thanks, James!)
A Report on My Experience with Kabi Nagata’s Lesbian Experience With Loneliness.
I stayed up too late reading Kabi Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (Los Angeles: Seven Seas Press, 2017). It’s one of those books. It moves fast and covers more ground than it seems to. I thought I’d just take a look at it before going to sleep […]
“My Soul Looks Back and Wonders: A Critical Examination of the Wonder Woman Movie”
At Son of Baldwin, Valerie Complex and Robert Jones, Jr. discuss Wonder Woman (2017): “We are being critical of the art we digest. I don’t find a single thing wrong with that. If some wish to characterize this as nitpicking, I find that dismissive, but that is their […]
Smells like Progress: Aiyyaa
What happens when a Bollywood film gives the female lead all the privileges and powers that male leads get and she does things that very few women on screen ever get to do, including making herself and others laugh while still being taken seriously? Aiyyaa (2012), a nearly […]
“Why the Female Villains on The Handmaid’s Tale are so Terrifying”
Angelica Jade Bastíen writes about white femininity and oppression in the television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale. “It’s easy to rest the blame of the horrors of Gilead solely at the feet of men like Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes). But no system this deeply entrenched and high […]
The Feminine Critique: “Texas Skeptics in 3D”
At the Feminine Critique, friends of the Gutter Emily Intravia and Christine Makepeace have released “The Feminine Critique Episode 87, “wherein Christine Makepeace completely changes Emily Intravia’s opinion of The Skeptic and the ladies have a very scientifically based discussion about the impossible physics of shirts in Texas […]
The Cultural Gutter 