Monthly Archives: April 2011

Mainstream conspiracy theory?

Posted on 08/04/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

Just in time for our read­ing of the Son­nets (and their adja­cent mys­tery of the ded­ic­a­tion, and Mr. W.H., and was Shakespeare gay or not, or maybe not Shakespeare at all?) Roland Emmerich has pub­lished the trail­er for his upcom­ing … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Utterly sad yet utterly typical…

Posted on 08/04/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

The Guard­i­an reports today on the deport­a­tion of Eng­lish chil­dren to Aus­tralia, see­ing as there’s a new movie out, Oranges and Sun­shine, about the Eng­lish social work­er who tracked these events and man­aged to bring the people affected togeth­er. The dis­reg­ard … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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Master Mistress of my Passion

Posted on 05/04/2011 by Therese-Marie Meyer

Twen­ti­eth-cen­tury lan­guage for describ­ing sexu­al beha­viour (and even our tend­ency to pri­or­it­ize sex as a lead­ing human drive) does not fit the beha­viour, or (which is all we have) the rep­res­ent­a­tions of beha­viour of six­teenth-cen­tury males. No one in the … Con­tin­ue read­ing →

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