Voting for Hillary Clinton
Voting is a citizen’s superpower. Why not use it?
Read moreMonth: February 2016
Morning after
We tend to celebrate most things, and we often do it with wine, almost always with splendid food, and every single time with conversation.
Read moreFour-word love story
Intellectual judgement buried in the syllabus
School, 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 moreLetters to Tiptree on sale for a dollar so you can read and nominate it for a Hugo Award
Nominations 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 moreBare Hands
I 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 moreFilms and TV about women don’t win awards: some data
I 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 moreWomen characters in film and tv should do more than struggle
I’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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