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What Quiet Quitting Reveals About Women’s Emotional LabourQuiet quitting was never really about refusing to work. The phrase describes employees completing their paid duties without volunteering for endless extras,…
Canadian funding cuts are devastating women-led artsLast summer, while Australian arts communities were still processing another round of adjustments at the Australia Council, news from Ottawa landed with a…
Crafting dissent: the aesthetic politics of Women's March signsThe way a protest sign is made says as much as the words scrawled across it. From hand-embroidered fabrics to stencilled cardboard, the visual vocabulary of…
Everything Everywhere’s Feminist Power and Its LimitsEverything Everywhere All at Once arrived as a strange, exhilarating answer to a familiar Hollywood problem: how can a film centre an older Asian woman without…
How The Bachelor Franchise Perpetuates Racial and Gender HierarchiesFor more than two decades, The Bachelor franchise has offered a glossy promise: that love can be found in a hot tub, a private jet, or a group date…
Cycles of Silence: Why Menstrual Health Disappears in Science FictionScience fiction promises radical futures, yet the genre repeatedly stumbles over a basic biological reality shared by roughly half the human population:…
What Girl Math Reveals About Money and Gender“Girl math” began as a playful internet explanation for spending that feels emotionally free. A coffee paid with cash, a dress worn several times, or a…
How Barbieheimer Exposed The Gendered Box Of Blockbuster CinemaWhen Barbie and Oppenheimer opened on the same weekend in July 2023, the paired release became a global cultural event. Audiences dressed in pink, booked…
The Gendered History of the Housewife Aesthetic in Interior Design MediaA polished kitchen, a bowl of lemons and a woman in linen can look like harmless lifestyle content. Yet interior design media has long used domestic spaces to…
Why The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Trope Still Gets A PassThe Manic Pixie Dream Boy is a familiar figure in romantic comedy and coming-of-age stories: charming, eccentric, emotionally open and apparently immune to…