While nostalgia can be comforting on an individual level, large-scale nostalgia is where the wheels come off.
Nostalgia Means Nothing If We Refuse to Learn From the Past (a Medium Excerpt)
On Medium: The Complexity Behind That Women-Focused Moment In Avengers: Endgame (An Excerpt)
In a three-hour movie filled with weighty moments, one in particular seems to have sparked a debate that perfectly mirrors its actual complexity.
Can We Have Movie Heroism Without The Sexism, Please? (An Excerpt)
Published recently, on Medium: Can We Have Movie Heroism Without The Sexism, Please? Most movie heroism, of men and women, is underpinned by the victimisation of women — and, ironically, that’s the only kind of gender equality in cinema The Bride (Uma Thurman) in Kill Bill It’s fairly standard Hollywood screenwriting. The hero can’t be... Continue Reading →
The Expansion Of The British Social Class Divide (An excerpt)
Published recently, on Medium: The Expansion Of The British Social Class Divide How one South East London estate came to embody the true nature of the U.K’s social housing crisis I have great privilege. At the age of 40, I own the detached home in which I live, located on a quiet street, in a... Continue Reading →
Captain Marvel And The Patriarchal Tool (on Medium)
An excerpt from my latest piece on Medium, which digs into the way Marvel Studios' Captain Marvel slices straight to the heart of what makes Patriarchy tick: The ‘Patriarchal Tool’. It sounds like a turn of phrase you might use to refer to a misogynist troll on Twitter, or even an unpleasant and entitled... Continue Reading →
Fear, Truth, And Writing: Lessons From My First NaNoWriMo (An Excerpt From Medium)
November 2018 saw me undertake my first ever NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org). This is the National Novel Writing Month challenge that tasks writers with penning a minimum of 50,000 words in the month of November. The idea is that writing that many words will result in you having a complete first draft of a novel, on which... Continue Reading →
The Culture Of Correcting Women (An Excerpt from Medium)
An excerpt from a recent piece I published on Medium: "Twice in the past week, random men have inserted themselves into my parking process. On two occasions, while reversing my car — perfectly safely, with the kind of ease and precision demonstrated by an adult human with 20 years driving experience — a man suddenly appeared and tried to... Continue Reading →
“Have You Tried Having Your Nipples Tweaked?” (An Excerpt From Medium)
My recent piece on Medium, delving into ten of the most nonsensical pieces of unsolicited advice you can hear while pregnant. "So, you’re pregnant. Congratulations! You are embarking on a magical journey of wonder, excitement, worry, and high anticipation. You’re also about to learn the most earth-shattering lesson a parent can know: You have a... Continue Reading →
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