Tag: Television

• Subvert the dominant paradigm: link roundup

  Here’s a roundup of online reading I’ve been doing lately around issues fo diversity, gender equality, and culture change. Enjoy! Why gender equality is good for everyone — a very interesting TED talk by Michael Kimmel. Twofer from the New York Times this Sunday — when can women stop looking perfect? (hint: now) and it’s payback time […]

  Shannon Turlington

  January 11, 2016

  Notebook

  Angry White Men, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Atlantic, Basic guaranteed income, Brigid Schulte, Conference panels, Daily Life, Diversity, Emma Paling, Feminism, Gender equality, Harper’s, Huffington Post, Jennifer Weiner, Judith Shulevitz, Lauren Bacon, Laurie Penny, Michael Kimmel, Motherhood, New Stateman, Normalizing, Pinup calendars, Quartz, Rebecca Solnit, Sexism, Shonda Rhimes, Star Wars, Subvert the dominant paradigm, TED Talks, Television, The Guardian, Wikipedia, Women, Work

• Hell is repetition: The theme of cycles in science fiction

  Recently, I have become fascinated with the notion of cycles. We humans tend to regard everything linearly, with a beginning and an end, because that is our individual experience. But taking a wider view, we can see that events tend to happen in cycles, that an end leads inexorably to another beginning. It’s easiest to […]

  Shannon Turlington

  May 14, 2009

  Notebook

  Apocalyptic literature, Battlestar Galactica, Cycles, Dark Tower, Death and rebirth, Jerry Pournelle, Ken Grimwood, Larry Niven, Lost, repetition, Science fiction, Television