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Why Kevin Can F**k Himself Needed a Female Showrunner to Land Its GimmickKevin Can F**k Himself arrived with a formally clever premise: a bright, multi-camera sitcom could suddenly collapse into the darker visual language of a…
How Fleabag Reclaimed Female Grief Without Forgiving Toxic BehaviorFleabag understands grief as an unruly, embarrassing force rather than a solemn performance. It appears in sex, jokes, resentment, avoidance and sudden…
Poor Things And The Limits Of The Female GazeYorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things presents Bella Baxter’s sexual awakening as a rebellion against Victorian patriarchy. Its lavish production design, comic…
Kill Bill, Promising Young Woman, and Revenge FantasiesRevenge stories offer a seductive answer to a problem that real institutions often leave unresolved: what happens when women are harmed and nobody with power…
Who Gets Protected in Women’s Sport?The debate over women’s sport is often presented as a simple conflict between fairness and inclusion. That framing hides the people most affected by its…
When the witch becomes a warningWitches organise our imagination of female power. They appear as hag, crone, seductress, healer, rebel and mentor, yet these figures carry the same social…
Why the Born Sexy Yesterday trope keeps slipping past criticsSome screen characters arrive as fully sexualised women with the emotional knowledge, social experience, or critical vocabulary of children. They may be…
Female-fronted bands trapped in political reviewsFor years, a familiar review pattern has followed women who lead bands. Their lyrics are scanned for political awareness, their interviews are treated as…
Girlhood in YA Fiction Still Centres WhitenessWalk into Dymocks in the Melbourne CBD or browse the teen shelves at Big W and the pattern is unmistakable. Row upon row of girls in pretty dresses, girls…
What everything now got wrong about sex-positive educationSex-positive education is often sold as a liberation from shame. Asking students to name desire, practise consent, and reject embarrassment can be empowering.…