Voting for Hillary Clinton
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Read moreWe tend to celebrate most things, and we often do it with wine, almost always with splendid food, and every single time with conversation.
Read moreSchool, at all levels, is where we learn what’s important. The Open Syllabus Project offers a tool to look at the intellectual judgements embedded in our education.
Read moreNominations are now open for the Hugo Awards. For Best Related Work I’d like to point you to Letters to Tiptree, edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Alexandra Pierce.
Read moreI got this yesterday: video put together by Lou Duffy-Howard, bassist extraordinaire, for “Bare Hands,” a track recorded by Janes Plane, the band I was in, in 1982. I was 21.
Read moreI analysed the last 25 years’ results for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards for Best Picture (Oscar™), and for the Television Academy’s Prime-Time Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series (Emmy™). The data show that tv shows about women never win, and that films about women almost never win. Women’s stories are not taken seriously.
Read moreI’m tired of my screen choices being to watch a rollercoaster ride about men, or an angsty film or show about a woman struggling because she is a woman. I want to see some fabulously exciting screen stories about women who are simply people.
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