Are You Having a Good Time? Abuse, Bad Jokes & Making Light of Gender-Based Violence in 2024
By Emma Louise Backe In year marked by monumental legal cases against abusive men—Gisèle Pelicot in France, Cassie’s lawsuit against…
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Book Review: Gender, Race, Identity & Batman in Gotham City Living
By Alissa Whitmore Erica McCrystal’s ambitious Gotham City Living: The Social Dynamics in the Batman Comics and Media (2021) aims…
Book Review: The Truths of Monsters
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Whedon, Fandom, and Cancel Culture
By Alissa Whitmore “A guy who goes around saying ‘I’m a feminist’ usually has an agenda that is not feminist….
Replicants and Reproduction: Blade Runner 2049 and Sci Fi’s Obsession with Motherhood
By Emma Louise Backe (Warning: Blade Runner 2049 spoilers.) From the outset of Blade Runner 2049, Agent K (Ryan Gosling)…
The Geek Anthropologist 