Yes, in the 1970s and 1980s, there were some famous bodice-rippers – the kind where women are “overcome” by lusty men, and fall for their rapists over the course of the book. But that was then, and this is now. Author Jasmine Guillory: “One of the women told me that she wanted her little girl, when she got old enough, to read my book to know what consent was and how a man should treat her.”
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Betzabe Garcia Is Emerging As An Atypical Director Who Takes On Whatever She Wants
Betzabé Garcia broke out with a documentary in 2015, and since then she’s won awards for her short films – and now she’s working on “an over the top, hyper-stylized documentary which peers into the life of Garcia’s roommate, the now-famous YouTuber #Mickey, who at the age of 11 started making videos as a way of dealing with the intense homophobia present in her community.”
Ted Hughes Was Obsessed With Shakespeare (And His Own Inner Demons)
The poet believed that Shakespeare wrote some of the plays almost as a single work, about Puritan suppression of sexuality and an avenging goddess. Why read it now? “The thrilling effrontery of Hughes’s vision has three outstanding and transcendent qualities. First, it hot-wires the reader into the wild voltage of his fascination with myth, language and folklore.”
The Truly Awesome Joys Of Little Free Libraries
The guy who started them wanted to outdo Andrew Carnegie by one library – but now there are more than 75,000 Little Free Libraries across the world. “They promote a friendly, sharing economy. No one tracks who took what. There’s no due date. No fines. You might never return a book. You might leave another instead. And, they are inherently cute.”
What’s The Status Of African-American Theatre In 2018?
Robert Hooks, founder of the Negro Ensemble Company of New York and the DC Black Repertory Company, has some thoughts: “All the people that run [non-Black-specific] companies are getting the grants from the foundations I couldn’t get because they did one black play in their season. The black theater producers, the people who are in the community need the grants, and they can’t get them because the established theaters downtown are taking advantage of those grants.”
Jamie Lee Curtis Says The Success Of ‘Halloween’ Is A Victory For Women
She doesn’t just mean her demographic – women over 55, women leading a horror film – for whom she has utterly smashed movie records in the past few weeks. She means everyone. “This level of PTSD is not unique to Laurie Strode. It’s universal to every woman alive because women have been oppressed since the beginning of time. Bigger than that, people have felt the boot of sexual, criminal, political, emotional and environmental violence.”
The Monster Lies Within (Just Ask Your Screen)
Take a look at films and movies from the past, say, 20 years. It’s not pretty. “If this survey of today’s extreme culture tells us anything, it is that humans have worn out their welcome.”
Facebook Finally Got Fined For The Cambridge Analytica Debacle
And the fine was minuscule. Of course. The only way to truly see how little the fine affects Facebook is to put it in contrast to how much money the company makes per hour. “Still, even by that metric, Facebook’s profit dwarfs the fine.”
The Gospel Group That Has Hit It Big After The Royal Wedding
The Kingdom Choir and its leader Karen Gibson weren’t well-known, and then Meghan Markle and Princy Harry asked them to sing at their wedding. Then they sang “Stand by Me” at the May 19 nuptials. “For a group whose biggest previous audience was 200 people, the transition from obscurity to international acclaim was instant.”
The Short-Sightedness Of Killing FilmStruck And DramaFever
Sure, WarnerMedia claims that FilmStruck, DramaFever (a Korean drama service), and Super Deluxe is just a way to shutter anything that doesn’t get enough data for the new behemoth that is the combined AT&T and Warner. But that was, honestly, not very smart. “If WarnerMedia had eventually rolled FilmStruck into its bigger service, it would have been an enticing add-on for movie lovers, who are largely underserved by the big streaming services.”