I came across a call for submissions to a writing competition recently. The subject, sex. Any kind of sex, they said, any form, any genre. Go wild. The deadline for entry is two days from now. I've had a week to mull it over. I don't enter competitions much anymore. Mostly because they either cost … Continue reading About Sex
Category: Essays
The Problem With Dead White Men: A Response to a Response
David Didau's simplistic rebuttal of Mary Bousted relies on a deliberately sustained ignorance of the formation of the canon and the history of women's and peoples of former colonies writing. This is especially disturbing as he is a public speaker influential amongst teachers and teacher training providers.
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The Leather Skirt
The leather skirt is sitting in the wash basket. It has no stains, not a mark that you could see. But its dirty. I washed it a few times before but it never really gets clean. I threw it in a bin once. But it came back. And I thought, I’ll give it another chance. … Continue reading The Leather Skirt
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Conclusions; or, Re-imagining Feminist Cultural Criticism (Part 5/5)
Re-imagining the Natural (Part 5)
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Ursula K Le Guin, a Return to Ecofeminist Science Fiction
Re-imagining the Natural: Putting the World to Rights in the Fictional Ecotones of Cavendish, Lane and Le Guin Part 4
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The Problematic Emancipatory Hope of The New Science in Lane’s Mizora
Reimagining the Natural: Putting the World to Rights in the Fictional Ecotones of Cavendish, Lane, and Le Guin Part 3
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Margaret Cavendish’s Blazing World and the Fallacy of the New Science
Re-Imagining the Natural: Putting the World to Rights in the Fictional Ecotones of Cavendsih, Lane, and Le Guin, Part 2
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Re-imagining the Natural: Putting the World to Rights in the Fictional Ecotones of Cavendish, Lane, and Le Guin (Introduction)
A feminist reading of interconnected women's fantastic science-fiction utopias through the lens of Cavendish's Observations which traces the cross-temporal approaches to gendered knowledge production. Using Cixous’ ‘écriture feminine’ as a guide to identify common linguistic and formal tactics for the outmanoeuvring of masculine discourse, this work posits fantasy and science-fiction as ‘ecotones’ of past and future resistance to dominant hegemonic forces, asserting the importance of the imagination as a subversive means of ‘knowing’ the world.
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Women’s Knowledge, Magic, and the Patriarchy
So last week someone sent me this video, and frankly, if you haven't watched it, you should. I'm not just doing Philosophy Tube's promo for him here. The reason I am posting this video here is because it reminded me of an essay I had written at the beginning of my MA which I think … Continue reading Women’s Knowledge, Magic, and the Patriarchy
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Desire, Power, and ‘Demonic’ Femininity in M. G Lewis’ The Monk and Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya
Dacre's novel insists on the mutability of sex and gender, brandishing a demonic femininity in the face of the unequal distribution of power and gender binary.
The Haphazard Writer's Journal 