Next up in quarterly review faves: non-fiction and lit fic. Biggest surprise: all the nature non-fiction I've done in the last three months, none of it ended up sticking with me, and the reading experience/writing quality was really hit and miss. Might have to rethink sampling in that subgenre (no more picking it up because it has a tree on the cover! Literary fiction is never my primary genre, at least I read ONE I loved! 🤷🏼♂️
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Happy Trans Visibility Day- I SEE YOU!
Trans Day of Visibility began 15 years ago. The founder is still moved by its success💕
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https://www.npr.org/2024/03/30/1241589753/transgender-day-of-visibility-rachel-c...
FYI 🐇
Easter can happen on any day from March 22 to April 25. https://www.projectpluto.com/easter.htm
pickFucking fascinating. Maybe a little too much Freud. Apologies for the dreadful cover showing in your feed.
Carol J. Clover's 'Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film' remains one of my faves of the collection, I realize that's my final girl bias showing through.
I think I honestly enjoyed Thomas Doherty's 'Genre, Gender and The Aliens Trilogy' (written back when it was just a trilogy) because those films made such an impression on me. 1/?
The film being discussed is from Belgium in 1970.
It is 2024. WHY are there no feminist, lesbian vampire films I'm hearing about in present day North America?!
That would be so epic. 🙇🏼♂️
👀 Well THAT certainly sounds worth tracking down. 😉
I'm definitely getting 'not mad, just disappointed' in the contemporary consumer/movie goer, vibes from Sharrett.
Just another way to say apathetic cynicism isn't a useful attitude?
Queer = Awesome
Aka inclusively challenging the status quo.
Sorry for any outdated terms on display; I gather from this second edition's introduction, some of these essays are from the 90s or earlier.
Love the idea that as early as the 1980s, slasher films were part of the conversation around distinguishing sex from gender and maybe even opening the floor to gender fluidity, even while the author is careful to acknowledge the non-progressive aspects of how women were traditionally treated in them.
Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film by Carol J. Clover is my favourite essay so far in this collection.
