Wayward Sisters: An Anthology of Monstrous Women Allison O’Toole and M. Blankier (editors) February 2018 Most women already know how it feels to be made monstrous. If we can tell what most frightens a society from what form its monsters take and what they threaten, the very ideas governing what societies and people will be…
A Compendium of Resistance: Comics for Choice Fights for Reproductive Justice
Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics Ed. Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor, and Ø. K. Fox (Editors) Summer 2017
A TARDIS Full of Coats: Why Queer Women are Already Costuming the First Female Doctor
Even before Jodie Whittaker pushed back Peter Capaldi’s hood to reveal herself as the first woman actor to play the Doctor, Doctor Who’s female and non-binary fans–especially those whose gender expression tacks masculine-of-centre–were already watching odds shorten on Peter Capaldi’s replacement being a different gender … and skipping ahead to what style and costume will…
Malvolia in Yellow: Reflecting on National Theatre’s Twelfth Night
I wasn’t the only one who missed her step on the London Underground, when the screens switch one poster to another even faster than the escalator pulls you down, because Tamsin Greig was standing in a tuxedo and high heels. One louche hand on hip and a champagne bottle by her feet, a couple of…