The Internet has been abuzz lately regarding the “Bury Your Gays” trope, escalated by several popular TV shows killing off queer characters, particularly women, and adding to this larger idea that relationships between queer women are unstable at best and tragic at worst. A lot of people are currently criticizing The 100 and Orphan Black… Continue reading Queer Life and Death in Cartoons and TV Shows
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Platonism in Orphan Black
So, I recently took a MOOC about three of Plato’s dialogues (Euthyphro, Meno, and Republic Book 1). By the way, I highly recommend taking MOOCs, especially if you’re a writer and/or also like me in that you miss the structure of college classes, but don’t want the hard commitment of actually going to grad school.… Continue reading Platonism in Orphan Black
Lessons From Orphan Black: The Fridging of Amelia
Orphan Black is one of the best shows that premiered on TV last year, and as it features several women as main characters whose life goals are not primarily finding husbands and having babies, it’s a wonderful relief from most of the crap clogging up the airwaves. The premise is simple: a young woman named… Continue reading Lessons From Orphan Black: The Fridging of Amelia