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My Reality: How to Become an Orphan
by Roxanna Bennett [Trigger Warning for discussions of child rape and molestation] I divorced my entire family in 2005 and it was the healthiest action I’ve ever taken for myself. In 2004, I started...
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Downton Abbey’s Lessons for Ladies
by Roxanna Bennett -Spoiler Alert to end of Season 3- The third season of Downton Abbey is over. We feminist fans shed some tears when Lady Sybil died, cheered when under-butler Thomas Barrow informed...
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Review: All Men Are Jerks *Until Proven Otherwise by Daylle Deanna Schwartz
by Roxanna Bennett All Men are Jerks *Until Proven Otherwise, a self-help dating book by Daylle Deanna Schwartz, sinks victim-blaming to new depths. From the back cover where the author states: “Men...
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Book Review: Iris Has Free Time
by Roxanna Bennett “I prefer to call them pink-outs, because I’m a girl,” the narrator, a charming young alcoholic states. Less a coherent memoir and more a strung-together series of short, sometimes...
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Sister: An Unflinching Look at Maternal Health Worldwide
by Roxanna Bennett “Pregnancy is a normal physiological event,” states Goitom Berhane, a health officer in residency at a rural hospital in Ethiopia. “This is not a disease. It is only that society is...
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Trigger Warning for Happy Fun Ball?
by Roxanna Bennett A few years ago I signed up for an Artist-Educator class. I was working at an art gallery teaching kids and wanted to learn to write a more structured curriculum. I was super stoked...
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Yes, All Women
by Roxanna Bennett Content Note: Discussion of violent misogyny “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” – Margaret Atwood I do not want to write this,...
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Canada Post Cuts Will Exacerbate Inequality
In December, Canada Post announced they would be replacing door-to-door home delivery with community mailboxes for over five million Canadians. Canada Post claims home delivery is not profitable and...
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A Queer Capital Looks at Gay History in Washington, D.C.
“In Washington, D.C., racial privilege combined with class and gender privilege, enabled white middle-class gay men to dominate the sexual geography of most of the city and to do so without having to...
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Feminist Movie Review: Divergent
One of my “ice-breakers” when I teach art to kids is to get talking to each other is the classic: “Who would win in a fight” question. For years this question was usually limited to male superheroes....
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Sarah Hepola’s Blackout Explores Addiction While Unpacking Rape Culture
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank To Forget by Sarah Hepola is a standard memoir of addiction and recovery, following the textbook arc of excess, regret and sobriety. What separates this book...
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(Straight) Ladies, the Smarter You Are the More Likely You Are To Die Alone,...
It’s a day that ends in Y, which means that yet another article about the living hell of being a single woman has been published, this time over at Elite Daily. “Ladies, The Smarter You Are, The More...
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Sense8 Episode 1: ‘Limbic Resonance’
Nomi (Jamie Clayton) and Amanita (Freema Agyeman) in Sense8 Created by J. Michael Straczynski, (Babylon 5) and the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix, Cloud Atlas), Sense8 is a 12-episode Netflix original...
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Sense8 Episode 2: ‘I Am Also A We’
Daniela (Eréndira Ibarra) with Lito and Hernando SPOILER ALERT In the opening scene of this episode we learn that Nomi is a reformed, paroled, hactivist (a woman who is a badass hacker, how much more...
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Sense8 Episode 3: ‘Smart Money’s On The Skinny Bitch’
Bae Doona as Sun Actual plot things to get out of the way before talking about this episode: Will wakes up in a hospital bed after having inadvertently gotten Jonas, the only person who seems to know...
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Sense8 Episode 4: ‘What’s Going On’
Tina Desai as Kala Plot things: Wolfgang and his totes adorb bestie Felix go shoe shopping, as one does, after selling some of the diamonds they heisted. Capheus learns that his new status as the...
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Sense8 Episode 5: ‘Art is Like Religion’
Max Riemelt as Wolfgang Plot things: Wolfgang is being threatened by his creepy criminal uncle. Sun makes a decision about taking the fall for her idiot brother. Capheus is running a dangerous errand...
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Sense8 Episode 6: ‘Demons’
Plot things: Riley and Will crush on each other. Wolfgang and Kala also crush on each other, although she’s convinced he’s a demon because he’s always naked and tempting her to not get married. Sun...
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Sense8 Episode 7: ‘WWN Double D?’
Plot things: Sun is transferred to prison, Nomi hacks the heck outta the horrible doctor who tried to butcher her brain. Daniela’s horrible ex-boyfriend comes to visit and discovers Lito’s secret....
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Sense8 Episode 8: ‘We Will All Be Judged by the Courage of Our Hearts’
Bae Doona as Sun Plot things: Content warning for child abuse and domestic violence. Everything happens in this episode. Nomi and Will uncover more information about the creepy brain surgeon and...
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