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Online Again: a Critique of Sword Art Online, Seasons One and Two
If you watch anime at all, you are probably already aware of the massively popular Sword Art Online. For those who are not familiar with it,…
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A Night in the Night Vale
A genial yet sonorous voice echoes over the radio in a quiet desert community as we all casually avert our gaze from the shadowy horrors lurking…
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The Girl with a Sword.
I can’t remember when I first encountered her. Maybe I saw her on a kids’ cartoon. Maybe she was in one of the animated movies…
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Appall To Appeal: the Nature of Sexual Violence Against Women in Game of Thrones
Warnings: spoilers for Game of Thrones (up to mid season 4); discussions of sexual violence, rape. I cannot count the number of times a Game…
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Asian (Mis)Representation in Speculative Film Culture
The fact that I had such a difficult time coming up with a list of Asian (especially East Asian) characters in speculative works is a…
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Many Sides of the Same Genes: Examining Diversity in BBC’s Orphan Black
This review contains spoilers up to late season two . Needless to say, when I began watching a show whose core premise was “clones, clones everywhere,”…
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We Need Diverse Books: LGBTQ+ Representation
When I was a teenager, I’d borrow books from the library and then hide them in my closet. I couldn’t search the library shelves for…
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The Invisible Ones: The Speculative Fictions of Mental Health Discourse
I was at a meeting at the start of the 2013-2014 school year and we were at the portion of the day where we were…
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The Quest for Diversity in Speculative Fiction
Since its conception in May, the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign has exploded online, renewing discussion about diversity in children’s and young adult literature with new force. What…
The Spectatorial 