The other day, I was scrolling through my 2010’s throwback playlist, and I was feeling in an extra critical mood. The justification for this could have been that I had just finished up another round of back-to-back English literature seminars … Continue reading “That’s so 2010s” How gender stereotypes have evolved in songwriting over the last decade
Originally published in the Summer Issue 2020. Recently I was playing a game called A Fold Apart. It is a romance game, but what was striking to me about the game was its use of gender. Choosing one’s gender … Continue reading When does gender in a video game actually matter?
Defying the stereotype that “women’s movie ideas aren’t commercial enough for Hollywood,” Wonder Woman, with a female lead (Gal Gadot) and a female director (Patti Jenkins), may be this summer’s great hit movie, grossing nearly $800 million worldwide as of August … Continue reading The Bechdel(-Wallace) Test “Pretty strict, but a good idea.”
Topside Press was founded in Brooklyn in 2011 with the intention of publishing literature by, for, and about transgender people. Topside recently went on the Never Mind the Hormones tour, which sought to “bring the vanguard of trans writing in … Continue reading Topside Press
●●●●○ Four young women sit on the floor in a square, facing inward. A game starts. We are not told the rules but it is something like charades: each woman performs a mini-narrative inspired by actions and questions written on … Continue reading ARISE – Review
If the essence of fashion is at least partly an articulation of the times that we live in, then it is relatively unsurprising that more and more designers are playing with the traditional boundaries of gender. Same-sex marriage has become … Continue reading Blurred Lines