My family has always been a museum family. As a child I remember that our outings included trips to museums five times as often as they did shopping or going to the movies. Vacations were filled with visits to aquariums, zoos, local historical archives, and civil war battlefields, where I would stand on the groundContinue reading “Inspiration: Storytellers Who Paint”
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A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 2 of 7)
II. Techno-Politics and Gender Politics: Conflict in the Fembot The question then becomes how our attitudes towards technology inform our attitudes towards gender as seen in the figure of the Fembot in popular science fiction literature. The Fembot is a figure composed of equal parts machine and programmed femininity. In each narrative, the Fembot becomesContinue reading “A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 2 of 7)”
Lovers Lie
I love waking you up just before I disappear into the freezing black of a winter’s morning, when I’m dressed in something flattering, professional, and uncomfortable, and you’re still naked, nestled between the sheets and our electric blanket like a flower petal pressed between two pages in a book. I love waking you up, theContinue reading “Lovers Lie”
A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 1 of 7)
I. The Fembot: An Introduction “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people”, explains theorists Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler (Mulvaney). Kramarae and Treichler are two of many theorists interested in the figure of femininity in common cultural practices. The field of feminist theory and critique has existed for decades and shows no signsContinue reading “A Radical Notion: Feminism and the Figure of the Fembot (Part 1 of 7)”
I Write Because
“I write because there are some things I’m afraid to say out loud” was the quote in my senior yearbook, a string of words nestled beneath a picture of a girl who seems familiar and alien all at the same time, like a face remembered from a dream. I write because of who I am,Continue reading “I Write Because”