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Fictional Women Around the World: April O'Neil
SMNTY reports on April O'Neil, and her role as a bridge between humanity and teenage mutant ninja turtles.
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3 months ago
SMNTY Classics: Black Swan and the Horror of Perfectionism
What's the cost of being perfect? Of losing yourself in the name of performance? Why do we applaud women's pain? The film Black Swan sets the stage f…
3 months ago
SMNTY Classics: What the Treatment of Shay and Ruby tell Us
In the wake of Trump's loss in the 2020 election, he and his cronies attacked two Black women poll workers, Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, baselessly cl…
3 months ago
Feminist Movie Friday: Aliens
In honor of Xenomorph Day, we're going back to our feminist movie roots and talking about the 1986 classic Aliens. We explore topics of motherhood, t…
3 months ago
Happy Hour 216#: Fanfiction Specifications
What are transformative works? We scroll through some updates, some questions, and some history.
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3 months ago
Book Club - Weather: A Novel
Jenny Offill's work Weather: A Novel encapsulates the sense of world-ending doom so many of us grapple with, and in a variety of ways. Anney and Sama…
3 months, 1 week ago
Activists Around the World: Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Biochemist, botanist, author and climate change visionary Dr. Diana Beresford-Kroeger has earned the nickname 'The First Lady of the Forest'. We dig …
3 months, 1 week ago
SMNTY Classics: Dana Scully
Skeptic. Inspiration. Fashion icon. After her run on the The X-Files, Dana Scully got not one but two effects named after her. In this classic episo…
3 months, 1 week ago
SMNTY Classics: Women of Hip Hop
Over the years, hip hop has evolved and women have been at the heart of it since the beginning. We highlight some of the legends in this classic epis…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Mystery of Mary Magdalene
Throughout history, the Biblical figure Mary Magdalene has been interpreted and presented in numerous ways, often to serve the religious Western Chri…
3 months, 1 week ago