Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Feminist Blog
The week before the Women’s March I was sharing dinner with several good friends, including the woman I would eventually go to the march with in St. Paul, Minnesota. As we ate, we talked, and when the subject turned to the march there was some trepidation voiced. Was it going to be positive? Was it going… Read More
About a year ago, I was having dinner with a friend of mine, and in the course of conversation I asked her, “Would you like to be a pilot someday?” She paused to consider her response before replying no, she thought not. What stuck with me from that exchange wasn’t her no, but her pause. There… Read More
Oh! Did I love Ghostbusters growing up! I used to run around the playground in grade school, imitating the siren of Ecto 1 and spouting off Peter Venkman’s lines. I never bothered including the scary parts in my pretending though cause horror isn’t for me. When Ghostbusters 2 came out I was pumped. I was also nervous… Read More
With the original Independence Day from 1996, the bar was set pretty low in regards to improving the depiction of women. Thinking back, there was basically Viveca A. Fox’s “Jasmine Dubrow”, a professional stripper, whose main job was saving her kid. Basically, the familiar role of mothering her child, care taking others, and marrying Will Smith.… Read More
I was scared going into The Danish Girl because, with it being about the first woman to medically transition from male to female, the subject matter hits quite close to home for me as a transwoman. I went out looking for other reviews by trans people on the film to try and get a read on… Read More
When I was a kid I was in love with the 1976 film Silver Streak. My poor babysitters sometimes had to sit through the movie once only for me to rewind the video when it got to the end in order to play the movie through again. I just adored the scenes of the train winding its way through… Read More
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