Wonder Women
The fight for female superheroes in Hollywood.”
The Fred Rogers We Know
Soraya Roberts mines the CBC archives to view the first images of Fred Rogers on television in 1963 — hosting Misterogers, a fifteen-minute black-and-white children’s program made in Canada — to get a deeper sense of the man who made it ok for people to be valued and loved, exactly as they are.
Vanity Foul
After a hundred years of performing the so-called “hand job” of journalism, the puff piece is giving way to a more enlightened form called the power piece. The successful power piece acknowledges the white cis male status quo and can help reshape the world its subjects and readers inhabit. When it fails, it perpetuates the same old same old it claims to subvert, puffing up activism instead of celebrity.
A Diamond and a Kiss: The Women of John Hughes
Revisiting the women of John Hughes’ ’80s teen films, whose complex characters were unable to avoid the trap of aspiring to domestic ideals of how women should be.
How Winona Ryder Became the Face of ‘90s Nostalgia
Grunge-era Ryder might be the last great pre-internet icon. Will we ever let her move on?
Alanis In Chains
Before Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette was a teenage pop star. So how did she transform into the “patron saint of mainstream grrrl power”?
