FRUITS BASKET and the Nature of Femininity: A Women’s+ Canon Article by N Blanchet
Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya is one of the highest selling manga series in both…
Gillianren
Gillianren is a forty-something bipolar woman living in the Pacific Northwest after growing up in Los Angeles County. She and her boyfriend have one son and one daughter, and she gave a daughter up for adoption. She fills her days by watching her local library system's DVD collection in alphabetical order, watching everything that looks interesting. She particularly enjoys pre-Code films, blaxploitation, and live-action Disney movies of the '60s and '70s. She has a Patreon account at https://www.patreon.com/gillianren
Articles:
Attention Must Be Paid: Miriam Hopkins
One of the effects of the Production Code, intended or unintended, was its changing of…
Disney Byways: “Hawaiian Holiday”
I wonder how much of the outcry from certain people about things in older cartoons…
Art in Time of Plague
The Bubonic Plague’s impact resulted in wide-ranging social, economic, cultural, and religious changes. These changes,…
Joy and Deceit on a ROMAN HOLIDAY: A Women’s+ Canon Article
When I was a sophomore in high school, my English teacher loved film. Just loved…
Celebrating the Living: Tilda Swinton
Okay, so I’m not actually sure I think Constantine is a good movie, though it’s…
Attention Must Be Paid: Matthew Garber
Matthew Garber made three movies in his life, all for Disney. That career, his second…
It’s Just Good Fun: Kenny Rogers, 1938-2020
I don’t really listen to country music. I do listen to Kenny Rogers. Not often,…
Disney Byways: HERBIE RIDES AGAIN
It’s very strange to have a sequel that shares only one character with the original,…
The Need for A Bechdel Test for Books and Why I think that Gail Carriger’s PARASOL PROTECTORATE Series Would Still Pass: A Women’s+ Canon Month Article by Cori Domschot
In researching the topic what made a feminist book I ran across 3 tests for…