Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality
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The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement's campaign for marriage equality...
What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women's Movement
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What Women Want is a trenchant examination of the struggle for women's equality, and a prescription...
Women, Monstrosity and Horror Film: Gynaehorror
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Women occupy a privileged place in horror film. Horror is a space of entertainment and excitement,...
We Need to Talk About Grief: How to be a Friend to the One Who's Left Behind
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Talking about death and grief has become something of a modern taboo. Most of us would rather avoid...
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music
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In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR's acclaimed music critic...
ClareR (5854 KP) rated Raybearer (Raybearer #1) in Books
Sep 15, 2020 (Updated Sep 15, 2020)
Tarisai learns that her education has been leading her to one end: to become part of the crowned Prince’s Council of Eleven, and to ultimately kill him. But Tarisai doesn’t want to fulfil her life’s purpose. She doesn’t want to be a murderer, and she actually really likes the Prince.
I shouldn’t be surprised, because I’ve said it often enough myself, but for those uninitiated in YA books, this actually deals with some pretty serious themes: gender roles, and the fact that girls don’t all want their sole life purpose to be that of a child bearer, and parental abuse of children (in this case, physical abuse - eg. hitting). So this isn’t a book for the faint hearted! It’s a beautifully told story though, it has a feel of the fairytale or myth about it, and I definitely think that it was time well spent. To top it off, I see that this is the first book in perhaps a duology or trilogy? I’ll be looking out for the next one, because I’m intrigued to see how this story will develop.
Many thanks to the publisher, Hot Key Books, and to NetGalley for my copy of this book.
James P. Sumner (65 KP) rated What Men Want (2019) in Movies
Jul 10, 2019
Yeah...
The premise remains the same: fate intervenes and gives a headstrong, intimidating woman who thinks she's doing a good job of making it in a man's world the power to hear men's thoughts... which quickly shows her she knows nothing at all.
This R-rated comedy has a few laughs, but falls into cringe territory more often than it needs to. It's predictable, which was to be expected, really, given the genre. However, I confess to being pleasantly surprised by it. Certainly not the best comedy I've seen by a long way, but on a par with the Baywatch remake in terms of the level of humour and the assumed target audience.
Taraji P. Henson is great in the lead role, with the supporting cast all doing a solid, if not a little routine job of backing her up. It's the kind of film you go into understanding what you're getting - a few laughs, a few cringes, a lot of inappropriate and suggestive themes and, ultimately, something that makes you forget the real world for a couple of hours. Nothing more, nothing less.
Overall, it's not bad, but it's far from great. This is something you watch on a Friday night when you've had a hard week and your brain needs a rest.
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Two of the greatest current challenges are climate change (and variability) and food security....
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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"I couldn't have a conversation with white folks about the details of a problem if they didn't want...
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