Handmaid’s Tale, Season 2: You Should Know About Octavia Butler
Today marks the return of Hulu’s prestige literary-inspired dystopian drama for its second season, The Handmaid’s Tale.I’m not here to shit on this show. It’s good, compelling TV. It’s important TV. It walks a fine line between being pointed enough to bring women’s rights into pop-cultural discussion while still remaining…
Here Too Soon: Feminist Media Just Before Their Time
Sometimes there’s a strange serendipity that happens in culture and pop-culture. There are times when things line up, like when movies come out in perfectly matching pairs about such random things as asteroids, ants, volcanoes, androids, and mars. And then there are times when two things absolutely perfect for each…
Meditations on Mortality
Have you ever had that sort of confluence of media when you watch, read, or play a number of things and they all seem to play off of each other? One year I went for months when, not only was every book I read great, but they also perfectly paired…
Before the Exodus There Was Visibility
This has been a weird holiday season. I feel like since the election last year I’ve been saying that for each Jewish holiday. It’s like Trump has codified a modern American bigotry. This Passover the 🙄 has ranged from the benign, well-meaning gentile telling me about their non-Jewish seder1 to articles claiming…
The Chaotic Neutral WrestleMania 34 Prediction Post!
It’s that time of year again. As always, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox our television screens will be graced by the grand daddy of all wrestling shows. It’s WrestleMania! (Actually, the bit with the full moon and such is how we figure…
Adventures in Itch.io: Normal Human Face Simulator
My friend busted out Mortal Kombat XL at a recent party and I had forgotten how much fun those games are. So when the next party happened to be at my place, I wanted to reciprocate as a good host. I found a little indie game called Normal Human Face…
