On Passing the Bechdel Test
I was probably 16 years old when I first learnt about the Bechdel Test. Five years into a seven-year stint at an all-girl’s’ school, I was learning most of my socio-political theory and nuggets of feminist knowledge from Meaningful Threads on Twitter, like every other blossoming social activist did at one point or another. For …
Top 5 Signs That Your Boyfriend Has Mommy Issues: as seen on WebMD
Is your boyfriend weirdly close with his mum? Are you wondering if he’s got mummy issues? Does he take the Tik Tok “Mommy” audio too far? Does he idolise Homelander from the Boys too much? Well girl, you’ve come to the right place. I’m here to arm you with 5 of the best ways to …
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Eastern European Mummies
Sat around a tiny kitchen in Schafer House with three people I had met that day, I felt intimidated. We burnt through all of the typical freshers’ questions with only one left, “where are you from?”. Thirty minutes later the laughter continued, as me and the other two girls bonded over having eastern European mothers, …
It’s everything about you, mom.
Being the daughter of the perfect woman sucks. What sucks even more, is the invalidation that tags along. After all, it can’t be considered childhood trauma if your mother was the epitome of perfect so you end up blaming yourself for feeling anger towards the woman who treated you like her personal project. All those …
Carolee Schneemann’s body politics: sexuality, the female body and the symbol of woman
“Can I be both an image and an image maker?” Rooted in this question, Carolee Schneemann’s ‘Body Politics’ is affronting, feverish and unapologetically erotic. Spanning six decades, the exhibition is both exhaustive and exhausting as viewers are propelled through twelve zones and two stories in the Barbican’s vast gallery space. As its title suggests, ‘Body …
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Indigo De Souza loves her mum… so she made an album about it
Indigo De Souza doesn’t need anyone to love her as she loves her mom more than any of you fools; this is declared in track 8, ‘ghost,’ part of the 2018 album “I love My Mom.” The cover of the album displays a skeletal maternal-figure reaching out towards her infant amidst a psychedelic forest, with …
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