Attention Must Be Paid: Wendy Toye
It seems the sparse amount of detail about the life of Wendy Toye, CBE, has…
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:
Disney Byways: Animated Parenting
I read an article this morning about what parents can learn from children’s shows. Obviously,…
Doris Day and the Fine Line Between Feminism and Sexism: An Intersectional Femivision Article by Cori Domschot
When looking at the Doris Day and Rock Hudson romantic comedies Pillow Talk (Gordon, 1959),…
The Code and Women
Neither Joe Breen nor Will Hays killed Jean Harlow’s career. That was, alas, probably uremic…
Celebrating the Living: Stockard Channing
It is not often we encounter people whose TV debut is on Sesame Street. Sonia…
Attention Must Be Paid: Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen seemed such a natural fit for comedy that it’s hard now to remember…
Disney Byways: Teenage Girl Idols
Sure, Disney’s first star, even before there was a Walt Disney Pictures, was four-year-old Virginia…
Ann Rule: The Face of True Crime
True crime writing does not begin with Ann Rule. Joseph Wambaugh published The Onion Field…
Stuff My Kids Watch: Algorithm of My Son’s YouTube Watching
One of the more curious results of the pandemic has been that the kids have…
A Name Change
This year, the Women’s+ Canon Month has been renamed Intersectional Femivision. This is an attempt…