In 2019, Disney refused to allow grieving parents to place an image of spiderman on their child’s gravestone.  In 1989 , they sued a children’s hospital for depicting Disney characters on their mural to comfort sick and dying children. When it comes to intellectual property, The Mouse is harsh and that’s all I’m going to […]

Pat Barker’s The Women of Troy is a sequel to her previous book, The Silence of the Girls. It continues the story of Briseis, and I can see more books in the pipeline, as further ramifications of the Trojan War unfurl. In some ways The Silence of the Girls can be read as a feminist […]

Considering how much of my existence revolves around the media I consume, I can’t say I’ve ever found something that I can truly relate to. If you spend as much time online and reading analytical articles as I do, it’s almost impossible not to come across someone talking about a game, movie, novel or TV […]