LGBT YA Book Review: Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters
This is part of a series concerned with young adult books with LGBT themes, because I read a lot of …
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LGBT YA Book Review: Becoming Nancy by Terry Ronald
This is part of a series concerned with young adult books with LGBT themes, because I read a lot of …
LGBT YA Book Review: Is He or Isn’t He? by John Hall
This is the first review in a series concerned with young adult books with LGBT themes, because I read a …
Book Review: A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend by Emily Horner
Emily Horner’s A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend (2010) is glorious. Cass Meyer, bicyclist, pacifist, Quaker, and high …
The Fifty-Sixth Down Under Feminists Carnival
Welcome to the fifty-sixth month of Down Under Feminists Carnival goodness. I am your host, Chally, and I am glad …
Review: Sapphistries by Leila J. Rupp
Leila J. Rupp, Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women (New York: New York University Rress, 2009). Firstly, I …
My Transsexual Summer, and what goes into diverse representations
My Transsexual Summer recently aired around these parts, a year after it was aired by the UK’s Channel Four. It’s …
Reimagining narratives that centre whiteness
This seems to be turning into a theme, so, previously on race and fiction: Writing Race, How to write yourself …
‘One still ought to show the good manners to act ashamed’
I recently read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. If you’re up for another work on racism and colonialism from …
Review: Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids (2011) has been billed as an important feminist step forward in Hollywood comedies, as more of the same, as …
Winners & Losers has definitely lost
In my last post on new Australian drama Winners & Losers, I mentioned that I wanted to write a post …
Winners & Losers winning and losing
There’s a new show on Channel 7, an Australian production, called Winners & Losers. It’s about high school friends were …
Review: Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room
Recently, I rather excitedly went to see the Sydney Theatre Company production of In the Next Room, or the vibrator …
Review: Lasting Treasures by Julie Ellis
This piece contains lots of spoilers. I wanted to love this book, I really did. I have enjoyed the couple …
Webcomics Wednesday: Riot Nrrd
Riot Nrrd by JR. This is the greatest comic ever. It references Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin and Margaret Atwood …
