Sci fi, fantasy and being female in a futuristic world.
A Black Mirror to Technology
Spoiler Alert: Black Mirror is a new series created by Charlie Brooker, described as “tap[ping] into our contemporary unease about the modern world”. The trilogy of hour long episodes are perceptive, dark, frightening; even touching at times. Despite the series having the genre of black comedy ascribed to it, I very rarely laughed. Read more…
04/01/2012
Polyamory: the solution to everything!
Guest blog by stavvers
Sometimes, I shout at the TV. Scratch that. When I am watching TV, I am usually shouting at it at some point.
18/10/2011
Love conquers all with violet light!
Guest blog by @mortari
DC comics’ portrayal of female characters has been the subject of a lot of discussion recently, following their ill-advised and highly sexualised reboot of popular characters Catwoman and Starfire.
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28/09/2011
Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling
Spoilerific Review: Butler writes about a society of vampires far removed from the usual trope. Although they drink blood, the Ina live in gender segregated societies with polyamorous, part human, families. Read more…
08/08/2011
Slave girls & the men who love them
In my experiments with Star Trek Enterprise, I recently watched ep 17 of the 4th season; Bound, the one with the very naughty Orion slave girls. There are many patently obvious things I can say about the women in this episode, instead I thought I’d talk about male representation.
24/07/2011
TARDIS & Damask come together
To make a beautiful t-shirt baby. This new offering from Threadless is designed by Rosemary Travale an artist from Hamilton, Ontario.
22/06/2011
Green Lantern: Just say no
Heartbroken as I am to admit this, but the Green Lantern movie was a resounding failure. I’m heartbroken because I have long since held that Ryan Reynolds is my (devastatingly attractive) homeboy.
20/06/2011
Enterprise & inappropriate aliens
As a fitting introduction to this blog, I’d like to make a complaint. For a long time I ignored the existence of the most recent Star Trek; Enterprise – unimpressed with the syrupy credits in the few episodes I’d watched. Read more…
19/06/2011