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Why BookTok Still Centres White WomenBookTok has changed how readers discover novels, revived interest in physical books and turned private reading habits into public performance. Across TikTok,…
When Perfectionism Becomes Virtue or VillainyPerfectionism is often presented as a personal trait, yet the way it is discussed depends heavily on who displays it. A man demanding exacting standards may be…
Why the Hot Girl Walk trend keeps disabled women on the sidelinesThe Hot Girl Walk, which exploded on TikTok in 2023, promised women a simple prescription for better mental health: walk, look hot, feel great. The trend…
How Andor Offers a Feminist Model of Resistance in Sci-FiAndor is often praised for making the politics of Star Wars feel material: people organise in secret, ration food, fear informants and debate the cost of…
When Power Is Mistaken for Depth in Female VillainsThe “strong female villain” has become one of contemporary screen culture’s most recognisable shortcuts. She enters with immaculate styling, cutting dialogue…
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…