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Why the sex scene in Saltburn broke more than the internetEmerald Fennell’s Saltburn turned a private act into a public spectacle. Its most notorious moment is less a conventional sex scene than a collision of desire,…
What the trad wives trend costs women's economic independenceThe trad wife aesthetic presents domestic submission as a lifestyle upgrade: linen dresses, sourdough, polished kitchens and a husband whose income supposedly…
How Beauty Filters Repackage Colonial Beauty StandardsA beauty filter can appear to be a playful layer of digital styling: smoother skin, brighter eyes, a narrower nose, fuller lips. Yet these edits are rarely…
When True Crime Turns Women’s Pain Into SpectacleThe uncomfortable parallels between true crime fandom and the male gaze become visible when attention shifts from justice to possession. Both can frame women’s…
Why Female Rage In Horror Films Keeps Getting Coded As Monstrous MotherhoodHorror has long understood women’s anger as a special kind of threat. A man’s fury can be framed as revenge, justice or tragic excess; a woman’s fury is more…
When Deepfake Porn Makes Consent Impossible to SeeA face can be copied, altered and placed into sexual footage without its owner ever performing, agreeing to, or even knowing about the scene. Deepfake…
Canada's feminist columnists are disappearing from newsroomsCanadian newsrooms have spent two decades promising to diversify their opinion pages, yet feminist columnists keep vanishing from mastheads. From the Postmedia…
The Politics Of Clean Girl Aesthetics And RespectabilityThe clean girl look presents itself as effortless: brushed-up brows, glossy lips, dewy skin, slick hair, neutral clothing and an apparently empty schedule. On…
Why Women Talking Sidelines Trans InclusivitySarah Polley's 2022 film "Women Talking" won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and travelled the festival circuit with rare unanimous praise.…
How slime culture turns disgust towards girls into entertainmentSlime is bright, sticky, noisy and hard to look at without imagining what it might resemble. Across YouTube, TikTok, television, toy aisles and school…