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Critiques The Patriarchy Barbie #2023 Wants You To Know That You Have Value Just As You
The feminist movie of the summer has dropped, and of course, here at Daughters & Dead Press, we headed into the cinema to watch it several times actually. Get ready for a critical examination of what Barbie can teach us.
“The Writer Has No Creativity At All”, Part 1
Imagine a drama but with characters becoming self-aware that they are, in fact, mere puppets of a comic book writer. Not only that, they soon find out that, contrary to their belief, they are not the protagonists of the story at all, but mere extras written to act as the bridge between the main leading cast. In Extraordinary You (2019) drama tropes are turned on their heads…
Lore Olympus and the Art of Depicting Intimate Partner Abuse, Part One: Apollo
Lore Olympus is an ongoing webtoon created by Rachel Smythe following various goddesses and gods from Greek Mythology. What the webtoon does particularly well is the various ways it showcases how intimate partner abuse is perpetuated: not as a one-off incident – as many may believe – but as a continuum of various behaviours.