Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: discrimination

  • Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear… and Why

    Sady Doyle’s Trainwreck is an examination of the media treatment of female celebrities (mostly celebrities, always women) when they go off the rails. Starting from the contemporary examples of Amy…

  • MicroRebellions

    I have a new blogging project – MicroRebellions. It was inspired by the confluence of two things: 1. A quote from Albert Camus “The only way to deal with an…

  • Thank you hater!

    This is awesome. That is all. (H/T to Dances with Fat for sharing it).

  • Thoughts on reading: The Bluest Eye

    I discovered I could edit on the train so I wasn’t reading for a while. I’ve got as far as I can with editing the current work-in-progress; it now needs…

  • Writing and Unconscious Bias

    I’ve been pondering this one for a while. A few weeks ago I stumbled across a radical feminist critique of one of my favourite shows, Firefly. My first reaction was…

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