I move home next week. After two and a half months in the Bay Area I’ll board a plane at SFO direct to JFK and start the next, next chapter of my life. I wanted to write a blog post to acknowledge this, to talk about how important and intense this summer has been, but […]
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Fifty Shades was truly a game changer, and its heteronormative romance plot allowed it to be a runaway success.
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Ella Enchanted makes it clear that obedience is not a virtue, and that never having the option to refuse is a miserable, unlivable existence.
Read MoreIt was inevitable that I would some day write feminist commentary on The Bachelorette, and ladies and gents, that day has come. Tonight was the episode of the franchise when all the shit usually hits the fan: the fantasy suite episode. Last season, when our darling bachelorette Andi was merely a final three contestant on Juan Pablo’s […]
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The fact is the “respectable girl from a nice family in Connecticut” ship has already sailed.
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Feminist erotica speaks to that muddled mess of political consequence and human compulsion.
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Ella Dawson 