“I’ll find a match / Or maybe two or three.”
Bertha Antoinette Mason Rochester as a Disney Princess by Shipwrecked’s Sinead Persaud.
“Mad As Hell: Thoughts On Aaron Sorkin”
At Asking The Wrong Questions, Abigail Nussbaum writes about Aaron Sorkin, the “Oh Shenandoah” episode of Sorkin’s The Newsroom, The Newsroom writer Alena Smith and women speaking out about their experiences. “What we’re seeing here is Aaron Sorkin becoming an Aaron Sorkin character, making the same arguments as […]
Lexi Alexander on The Movie Crypt
Director Lexi Alexander joins Adam Green and Joe Lynch on Geek Nation’s The Movie Crypt. “From Lexi’s early days as a martial arts world champion living in Germany, to a comprehensive look into how her short film (Johnny Flynton) secured an Oscar nomination and how the Academy’s nomination […]
“Visible Girls: London’s Lost Female Subcultures”
Dangerous Minds has a gallery of photographs from Anita Corbins project photographing young women in 1980s London. “In the early 1980s, photographer Anita Corbin documented the ‘informal uniforms’ of young women’s subcultures across London. Corbin photographed rude girls, rockabillies, mods, skinheads, and some ‘less defined’ female groups including […]
“Iris Allen, Laurel Lance & Lois Lane Syndrome”
Dr. Nerdlove takes a brief break from helping the nerd get the girl to address something that’s been bugging him. “Pardon me while I go off on a bit of a media criticism/ rant here. So I’ve been enjoying the *hell* out of The Flash lately except for […]
“He Wears The Mask Just To Cover The Raw Flesh”
At The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about Dr. Doom: “Comics are so often seen as the province of white geeky nerds. But, more broadly, comics are the literature of outcasts, of pariahs, of Jews, of gays, of blacks. It’s really no mistake that we saw ourselves in Doom, […]
The Cultural Gutter 