Like many of you (I hope), I’m practicing social distancing in the hopes of flattening the COVID-19 curve. That is, I’m not leaving our apartment unless I need to for food, for medicine, or to take out the trash; I’m taking precautions like staying 2m away from other people if…
Well, not really in December–as you may notice, we’re barely a week in. But I have to make room for my New Year’s blogs, don’t I? Anyway, here’s an incomplete list of small things–media and otherwise–that have been making my life better this final quarter. STEVEN UNIVERSE MOVIE!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!! :D…
One of my pet peeves is when critics make arguments about characters played by multiple actors (for example, in theatre) based only on the text of the script. We see this kind of argument a lot in when, for instance, historians assess the accuracy of plays that depict historical figures,…
Almost 10 years ago, I got sufficiently bored that I wrote a blog entry about things I decided I was “really, really bad at.” I promptly forgot all about it. But then, because I’m a narcissist/procrastinator who reads my own blog for fun instead of doing work, I came across…
Travelling and seeing new places can be expensive, but the biggest obstacle between me and seeing the world isn’t time or money. It’s gender. Let’s lay some groundwork. I’m a gender non-conforming woman. Although my gender identity coincides with the one I was assigned at birth*, the clothing I wear,…
The Magician’s Nephew was retcon before retcon became a thing. I remember feeling… disappointed when I finally got this sixth Narnia volume from my Scholastic book order in third grade. Up until now, the timeline had been fairly linear. Sure, The Horse and His Boy threw everything on its head…
This summer was particularly great, and this back-to-school season was particularly rough (thanks, High Holidays + revamping lesson plans + new-to-me-course! Also normal political the-world-is-going-to-hell stuff that I’m sure everyone is happy not to be reminded of again here). But here are 9 things that made the greatness greater and…
I am really lucky: going to a major theatre production in a professional venue is a comfortable experience for me. I’ve had opportunities to go to big-name productions since I was a teenager. But plenty of people haven’t been to a live theatre production before. If you’re one of them,…
There are terrible, bigoted things happening every day of the Trump presidency — and terrible, bigoted things that have been happening for a long time but only shamefully recently came to the attention of those of us they aren’t happening to. It seems right to feel angry and upset and…
Happy Chanukah! The last quarter of the year feels about five times as long as all the rest. Daylight gets shorter, the school semester gets more intense (hello, end-of-term papers to mark!), and I get more stressed out. But class is over, and I’m chilling in the eye of the…