Pride Month is here, which means J.K. Rowling is on the internet being a bigot. I’m only kidding. She does it year round, it’s just that more people take note during June. Once more, I see friends and acquaintances on social media debating whether or not she is, in fact, a bigoted TERF piece ofContinue reading “Harry Potter and the Wizarding World of Systemic Racism”
Category Archives: Reading
Why Genderswapping DUNE’s Liet-Kynes Is Actually Perfect
Let me tell you about the feminist message you absolutely missed in Dune, and why Sharon Duncan-Brewster is perfect to play Liet.
The Sad Tale of the Ininite Monkeys, Who Just Wanted Science Fiction Without Politics
This post is adapted and expanded from a Twitter thread. It may sound familiar to some of you. Do not click this link. (“Indie Sci-Fi Authors Are Upending Traditional Publishing, And It’s Turned Into A War”) It’s hot garbage. I warned you. It’s an article from The Federalist, a conservative web-magazine founded about six yearsContinue reading “The Sad Tale of the Ininite Monkeys, Who Just Wanted Science Fiction Without Politics”
What I’ve Been Reading Lately – 2-19
Read any good books lately?
Long Live the (Well Executed) Trope
Sometimes I get to write a sentence – one sentence – that is straight pulp, like Saturday morning cartoons or bubble helmeted heroes fighting green monsters on an alien world.
What I’ve Been Reading Lately 12-18
These are some of the books I read last month and what I thought of them…
