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Another reminder that green/feminist movements are as marked by gender and class as right wing politics…
I’m seeing correlations between slutwalk discourse and this little trail of articles dealing with race/food politics/gardening/environmentalism/cycling. While I’m fascinated by discussions of food and health and environmentalism as a socialist project, for a while now I’ve had a little [...]
hot male bodies
By dogpossum On 13th May, 2011 · 4 Comments · In conferences, fillums, lindy hop and other dances, menz, music, research, supernatural, wimminz
I talk an awful lot about women’s bodies, and women and the erotic gaze. I am, of course, working with the assumption that most dance performances are geared towards a male gaze, which Laura Mulvey introduces in her 1975 article “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, and which caused such a [...]
excellently Bgrade SF telly
By dogpossum On 17th March, 2011 · 4 Comments · In buffy and angel, dollhouse, fringe, sarah connor chronicles, smallville, stargate universe, television, veronica mars, wimminz
I will watch any SF or supernatural television program at least once. Some stick, some don’t. I favour programs with female protagonists. I like queer stories or subtexts because they tend to fuck up the gender norms.
Besides the usual big names (Buffy, Dr Who), I am also into Bgrade stuff. Mostly because Bgrade stuff [...]
dull with a side of dreary
By dogpossum On 19th January, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In academia, Austenauts, crafty bastard, djing, lindy hop and other dances, mood swings
The rain has eased a bit, and Brisbane is recovering. Slowly. Here in Sydney the weather turned mild, but the humidity increased, and we’ve had drizzles of rain off and on every other day.
I’ve been crocheting like a crazy person (you can see some of the amigurumi I’ve been doing here) and [...]
sinister blues
By dogpossum On 21st July, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In clicky, djing, lindy hop and other dances, music, television, true blood
I just want to keep a copy of this comment from faceplant, because I think it’s interesting.
I’ve been thinking about and playing some music that I think of as ‘sinister blues’. I call it that mostly because I remember seeing the Belle and Sebastian CD If you’re feeling sinister on the coffee table [...]
I didn’t like True Blood immediately. It took me a few episodes. Sometimes it’s dumb. But it’s also really great. I like supernatural telly. I watch every supernatural telly show I can get my hands on, no matter how terrible. I also read supernatural romance fiction, both adult and young adult. I like [...]
I just discovered Jasika Nicole, the actress who plays Astrid, is gay. She is also a scribbler and she has a blog.
Meredith Woerner’s story about the women characters in Stargate Universe covers many of the problems I’ve been having with the program.
Basically: the sisters in SGU are boring stereotypes. Sex on legs, angry lesbians, useless babies. Etcetera, etcetera. I want to love this program, but it’s not making it easy.
Also, the [...]
adventures with badass sistahs in outer space: olivia dunham
By dogpossum On 19th October, 2009 · 1 Comment · In academia, buffy and angel, digging, fringe, teaching, television, veronica mars
I love SF telly. I love it. I watch every SF program, just in case. I also like supernatural, fantasy and general make believe stuff.
But I tend to have less patience with programs that do not have good female characters. I make exceptions for programs like Supernatural which explore male characters and [...]
