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Sep 5
3 min

Review of Lisa Vogel’s 2024 We Can Live Like This…a Memoir of a Culture 249 pp. Billie Books, POB 3828, Berkeley CA 94703.

By Batya Weinbaum This book is dedicated to “all the sisters who forged a new life in the woods of Michigan.” Available through...

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Aug 27
3 min

Octavia E. Butler’s “Eerily Accurate” Prediction For 2024

Given the frequent headlines about wildfires, flooding and record heat, Octavia E. Butler’s vision for 2024 in Parable of the Sower seems...

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Jul 19
2 min

A Worthwhile Fantasy, IF Falls Short of Remarkable

When Bea (Cailey Fleming) goes to New York to stay with her grandmother while her father (John Krasinski) has surgery, she discovers that...

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Jul 9
3 min

KINGDOM of THE PLANET OF THE APES: A Serviceable, Unexciting Reboot

Sci-Fi in scope and post-apocalyptic in theme, KINGDOM of THE PLANET OF THE APES tells the story of young Noa. He and two friends are...

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Jul 2
3 min

Fabulously FURIOSA: Love and the Origins of a Female Leader

George Miller’s futuristic dystopian film FURIOSA is a prequel to 2015’s MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, a production that won six Academy Awards and...

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Jun 25
2 min

ABIGAIL’s ANGST

ABIGAIL opened in theaters April 19th, 2024. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (Radio Silence), the film is said by...

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Jun 18
4 min

Films for Thought: The Evolution of the Blockbuster

Although nothing this summer seems slated to re-create the Barbenhemier effect of 2023, there are a lot of big-name releases planned for...

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Jun 3
3 min

TAROT and TERROR: An Uncomfortable but Profitable Partnering in Film

Maybe it means audience appeal and box-office earnings -- but partnering the age-old and respected art of divination with terror-thrills...

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May 1
11 min

On Stuffed Animals and Sentience

Rachael Grad’s stories in Femspec 24.1 imagine a world in which objects of play such as her children’s stuffed animals, take on sentient...

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Apr 17
1 min

Out soon!: Spring Issue 24.1

See the table of contents for Issue 24.1: Introduction 10-11 Creative...

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Mar 20
1 min

AB Sees Batya Weinbaum at Artist Studio Tour in Historic Kenwood 2024; Alexis Baum

Listen here: https://audioboom.com/posts/8475027-ab-sees-batya-weinbaum-at-artist-studio-tour-in-historic-kenwood-2024-alexis-baum

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Feb 18
1 min

Pre-recorded videos for ReadOUT

To support everyone in accessing the videos, please see this link to view the videos: https://www.youtube.com/@ReadOUTLiteraryFestival/pl...

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Feb 16
7 min

Gretel at Apocalypse: A Review of Leave the World Behind

Mid-February sees the airing of the AARP (PBS, February 17th) and People’s Choice (NBC, Peacock and E!, February 18th) Awards. Because...

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Feb 13
1 min

Femspec 24.1 coming soon!

Skyler Dreams, by Patsi Aguero Table of contents: Creative Contributions Kendall Turner – Golem Girl Critical Articles Merry Byrd –...

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Dec 31, 2023
1 min

Gender ideology is deeply misogynistic and homophobic

The interview discussing Women's Rights Gender Gender Wrong (published by Women's Declaration International) can be accessed here:...

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Sep 4, 2023
2 min

FemSpec 24.1 CFP

Discourse surrounding issues related to the transgender community is currently dominating the contemporary cultural conversation in the...

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Jul 16, 2023
1 min

Femspec 23.2 coming soon! Look for in the fall issue:

Art by Patsi Aguero "Collaboration and Subsistence: Alix E. Harrow's Once and Future Witches through an Ecofeminist Lens" by Nancy...

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May 7, 2023
1 min

Film Festival not to be missed

Cinema Systers Lesbian Film Festival May 25-28, 2023 More information here: https://cinemasysters.com

"Waters of Life: Exploring Mythos, Divinity, Beings and Ecology"

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Apr 18, 2023
1 min

"Waters of Life: Exploring Mythos, Divinity, Beings and Ecology"

"Waters of Life: Exploring Mythos, Divinity, Beings and Ecology" International Conference Association for the Study of Women & Mythology...

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Mar 20, 2023
4 min

100 Years and Counting…

The 100-year effort to pass the Equal Rights Amendment gained new momentum this year with legislation proposed in the U.S. House and...