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Reason · Jul 10

How studying friendship has changed the way I understand my own loneliness

A few years ago, I had just moved into a house.

The Conversation · May 15

Nussaibah Younis: ‘The Bell Jar helped me through my own mental illness’

The author on taking solace in Joan Didion, discovering Donna Tartt and being cheered up by David Sedaris

The Guardian - UK · Feb 6

The Women of NOW review: superb history of feminist growth and groundswell

Katherine Turk has produced a must-read on the group which did so much for American women in the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - US · Sep 2, 2023

Review: ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ on Broadway: Britney Spears songs in an ill-shaped musical

NEW YORK — To use the Britney Spears catalog as the material for a musical preaching feminist enlightenment is, to put it mildly, a stretch. The now reclusive pop star’s heavily sexualized and self-objectifying body of work includes such fodder as “Baby One More Time,” (”hit me baby ...”), “Make…

Chicago Tribune · Jun 26, 2023

Theater Review: 'Once Upon a One More Time' with Britney Spears songs will drive you crazy

“Once Upon a One More Time,” a musical on Broadway stuffed with Britney Spears songs, is pure summer dumb, says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy

The Independent UK · Jun 23, 2023

The inherent misogyny of AI portraits – Amelia Earhart rendered naked on a bed

The hugely popular Lensa AI app creates portraits based on image prompts, but users say it sexualizes them unnecessarily

The Guardian - US · Dec 9, 2022

Why "Stepford Wives" still resonates

Sure, suburban living turned women into robots, but this telling also reveals the complicity of husbands

Salon · Aug 8, 2022

'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

On August 26 1970, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in a Women’s Strike. Organised by feminist activist Betty Friedan, the march highlighted the fact women still performed the vast majority of domestic work.

The Conversation · Jul 24, 2022

Why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on.

The New Daily · Jul 24, 2022