Utilitarian Review 1/25/17

Patreon

—I wrote 7000 words on Alice Guy Blaché, the first female director, and feminism vs. essentialism.

—I wrote a poem about freelancing and despair.
 

Utilitarians Everywhere

At the LA Times, I pointed out that Trump won, so why are we supposed to feel sorry for his voters?

For my first piece at Trackrecord I wrote about Rhiannon Giddens and how folk music became white music.

At Quartz I wrote about selfies as art.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

Stranger Things and how non greeks (like my son) aren’t so bad.

how women directors are different, and how they aren’t.

Utilitarian Review 2/18/17

 
Patreon

—I wrote a long piece on gaze theory, Pyscho, and Project Runway. (for patrons)

—I wrote a very NSFW parody of a T-Mobile ad.

Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about

fascist US presidents before Trump.

Iron Fist and boring white guy billionaires.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—I interviewed Lirael Lowenstein, a street medic, about black bloc tactics and myths about protest.

—I wrote about Trump and Gates and plutocracy.

—I wrote about Alice Guy-Blaché’s lovely short, silent, gender-bending film Pierette’s Escapades.

Utilitarian Review 2/10/17

 
On Patreon

I wrote:

—about director Alice Guy-Blaché’s wonderful Madame Has Her Cravings, and the naturalness and unnaturalness of pregnancy.

—on the second episode of Twin Peaks and camp utopia.

—some notes for an intro on Alice Guy-Blaché.

 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about Phoebe Maltz Bovy’s The Perils of Privilege, and the pros and cons of privilege call outs.

At Random Nerds I wrote about Beyoncé at the CMAs and racism in country music.

At Splice Today I wrote about

Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker, which doesn’t find any women on the road.

Laura Agustín’s The Three-Headed Dog, a novel that punctures trafficking myths.

Utilitarian Review 2/3/17

On Patreon

—I started my Twin Peaks rewatch with s1e1, and talked about genre tropes over an abyss.

—I wrote about the Black Mirror episode Nosedive, and glib anti-politeness.

—I explained why Trump is not Big Brother (Big Brother isn’t racist.)

Utilitarians Everywhere

At Splice Today I wrote about

—why Elementary is better than Sherlock.

Yoko Ono’s friendly butts.

Jude Sierra’s lovely m/m romance Idlewild.

For the Reader I wrote about Myzica‘s sugary indie pop.