Time traveller from the present. Fluent in: English, JavaScript, Pakuni.
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screenThe actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zoneswww.thetimes.com
Fuck this forced white male working class populism bullshit. If there’s any silver lining to this disgraceful horror show, i hope it puts that shit to bed forever. The working class is overwhelmingly composed of women, latinos, and immigrants in 2026. So they must finally represent the movement.
This doesn't just have resonance with today's repressive Christian cultures, it's a devastating critique of hundreds of years of storytelling of "rescuing" women who don't want to be rescued because life fucking sucks for them back in "civilization." substack.com/home/post/p-...
Puritans Wouldn’t Eat Pussy, So They Invented the WesternHow a sex problem became a propaganda machine, and how that machine built the most durable myth in American culture.substack.com