By Annaham on 14 December, 2010
K__ at Feminists with FSD: Notes on MTV’s True Life: I Can’t Have Sex Actual, proper terminology was used throughout the show. Chronic pelvic pain conditions were named, but some conditions that overlap were not mentioned at all (interstitial cystitis, for example, was not explored in this episode. This is a shame – interstitial cystitis [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged alternative medicine, asperger syndrome, autism, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, cancer, cancer treatment, chronic pain, death, female sexual disfunction, fraud, media and pop culture, pain, personal stories, reality tv, sexuality, television, the secret, tv, vulvodynia
By s.e. smith on 27 August, 2010
Content note: This post contains spoilers for season one, episode seven of Covert Affairs, ‘Communication Breakdown.’ I am nothing if not scrupulously fair to shows I enjoy shredding, so when numerous people informed me that I had to watch this week’s episode of Covert Affairs and write about it, I complied, although I confess I [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, representations | Tagged Auggie, blind characters, Covert Affairs, disabled characters, television
By Ouyang Dan on 1 July, 2010
Moderatrix Note: This is a post from my “Summer of Buffy” series (or “Season of Buffy” for my Southern Hemisphere friends, who want to be MONSTERS and have different seasons and ruin my pun, but you are my favourite people EVAH and I love you!), which I thought was appropriate for cross posting, due to [...]
Posted in intersectionality, media and pop culture, mental health, television | Tagged Buffy the Vampire Slayer, coping, death pisses Buffy off, depression, Joss Whedon, media and pop culture, mental health, mental illness, pop culture, television, When She Was Bad
By Anna on 14 February, 2010
About two or three weeks ago, I finally got around to noting the existence of the show The Good Wife. And then I watched every episode I could, as quickly as I could, because wow is this show good. It’s one part legal drama, one part family drama, and one part mysterious conspiracy theory drama. [...]
Posted in bodies, feminism, representations, television | Tagged media and pop culture, television, the good wife
By s.e. smith on 28 December, 2009
This is part four and final of a multipart post on Glee. Previous posts included the introduction to the series, “Women and Race on Glee,” and “Disability and Sexuality on Glee.” What we’re told about Glee, over and over, is that the show is critiquing these tropes by depicting them. That the show is confronting [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged glee, television
By s.e. smith on 24 December, 2009
This is post three of four in a multipart series on Glee. Previous posts included the introduction to the series and “Women and Race on Glee.” Before I begin, I would like to highly recommend access_fandom’s representation linkspams on Glee, which have links to numerous writings on Glee from a variety of perspectives. I wanted [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged glee, television
By s.e. smith on 21 December, 2009
This is post two of four in a multipart series on Glee. The previous post was the introduction. Glee‘s core message about women seems to be that they are all manipulative, evil, lying sneaks. The show includes not one but two deceptive pregnancy plots, interspersed with numerous depictions of women as nags, from Quinn pressuring [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged disabled women, glee, television, violence against women
By s.e. smith on 18 December, 2009
This post contains spoilers through the Glee midseason finale, “Sectionals.” It also got really long, so I am breaking it up into multiple parts so that it will not be an impenetrable Wall of Text. This is part one of four! Now that the midseason finale is officially over, we think it’s an appropriate time [...]
Posted in media and pop culture, television | Tagged glee, television
By Anna on 15 November, 2009
I know people are searching for our responses to the Very Special Disability Episode of Glee. I’ve got something going up Monday, but I wanted to highlight a few very good responses from other people to the episode, specifically people who are actually knowledgeable about the disabilities presented on the show. So, obviously no one actually associated with the show itself, because they seem pretty clueless.
Posted in media and pop culture, recommended reading | Tagged glee, kevin mchale, media and pop culture, television
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