“The Next Generation awakened in me a feeling of terrible and suffocating yearning — that hopeless childish escape wish that’s the wake of a certain kind of fantasy. That feeling that in a different world you’d be happy. I carefully recorded each episode on our VCR — I […]
The first two seasons of Star Trek, simultaneously.
William Shatner talks about his book on CBC Radio’s Q and his world on NPR’s Fresh Air.
There’s an interesting exploration of the fan fiction term “Mary Sue” and it’s sexist connotations at Adventures of Comic Book Girl: “So the only time female can be default is when discussing a badly written character, someone who is more powerful or important or liked than they should […]
As a follow up to “The Yellow Curse,” Grady Hendrix has posted a gallery of images offering a tour of racist stereotypes of Chinese people from 1881 to the present.
George Takei tries to broker a peace between Star Wars and Star Trek fans by asking them to join together against a common foe.
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The Cultural Gutter 