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Who We Love
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This adaptation of his short by director Graham Cantwell is a well
intentioned if rather clumsy drama about Dublin teens negotiating school,
parents and b...
Winter Again: Harbin film review
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The South Korean historical action thriller Harbin opened recently in the
US and as expected it’s a gorgeously appointed piece of commercial cinema.
Based ...
The taste of fire
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The view from my house on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 by Cynthia Wands January
11, 2025 It’s Saturday afternoon. I’m writing this while I’m watching the
smoke...
Don’t miss Horizon’s Gala at Cal Academy!
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Horizons is the world’s first community foundation of, by, and for LGBTQ
people. Their Mission? ‘We invest in LGBTQ nonprofits, strengthen a culture
of LGB...
Ready for Turkey?
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October ended up scurrying away from me this year. And here we are in
November with turkeys on the horizon. We'll see if I can make two posts
this mont...
Battle Cry
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- The Touch Issue
- sailor moon
Rosa Cartagena
[image: Sailor Moon, a girl with long blonde pigtails and a feminine sailor
costume sits in a...
Split This Rock Enters Fallow Season
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[image: Over a white background, bold black text with a yellow outline
appears that says “Fallow Season July 1, 2021 - April 1, 2022.” Under this
text is...
Rouzie Hassanova & her 'Radiogram'
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Rouzie Hassanova at work
Rouzie Hassanova’s award-winning Radiogram is #directedbywomen #aotearoa’s
first screening for 2020, at Parliament on 16 March.
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Interview: Penny Jackson & Kathy Gail MacGowan
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The Battles of Richmond Hills, a new comedy from Penny Jackson (I Know What
Boys Want at the Lion Theatre; A Different Place in the 2017 FRIGID
Festival) a...
Emma Thompson drops out of “Luck”
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British actress Emma Thompson has dropped out of the Skydance Animation
film “Luck”. She expressed discomfort in a letter to Skydance about working
with Jo...
Posters! Posters! Posters!
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Poster making workshop at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe NYC! Are you ready
for Women's History Month 2019? Book your poster making workshop with
Aphra Be...
Story
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Again, here's a handout I use in my fiction/prose narrative classes that I
thought might be useful to others. Feel free to use these guidelines in
your wor...
Music Monday: An all girl band in Afghanistan
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*They sound like a mix of Devo and Chicks on Speed to me. I don't even know
what they're called, but I want to buy the full album.*
*Anyone know what the...
Separation Anxiety: Babai
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At its international premiere at this year’s Jubilee edition of the Karlovy
Vary International Film Festival, Visar Morina’s intense and immediate
father/s...
Wow! New things are happening in 2015!
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Hello world! Away from the online journal here at Timeless Rhythms Studio,
I have been growing my life in different directions for some time now! For
examp...
Ada & After: Women Do Science [Fiction]
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Coming soon...
in partnership with
BFI Sci-Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder and Film London
20, 21, 22, 23 November 2014
ICA/Hackney Picturehouse/ Aubin Cine...
Perfect Pussy
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I found this article in the Dallas Observer kind of interesting about a
Syracuse band, Perfect Pussy. I didn't read the comments that people
wrote, becau...
New Home for Counting Actors
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As of this month's post, the monthly report from the Counting Actors
project moves to the Works by Women San Francisco blog. March's post is
linked below....
Review: Robocop (1987)
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SPOILER WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS In a dystopic, but
recognizable future Detroit, powerful corporations are primed to “bring
back Detroit” wit...
UPDATE ON MIRA'S LIST AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Greetings long lost friends,
I am still alive and kicking but not doing this blog anymore. I do,
however, go around the country and speak about the things ...
Let's...NOT talk about sex...?
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So a friend of mine recently experienced some sexual harassment and had the
courage to write about it publicly. I’ll give you a moment while you go and
r...
Hijab no longer will block elite weightlifter
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*by Thomas Roberts.*
After a hard-fought battle in the name of her faith, Muslim weightlifter
Kulsoom Abdullah is now able to compete without violating her...
Laurie Anderson, PIFF-Blessed/Chosen-Grateful
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In Joan Rivers new documentary, despite the over-arching theme of her
heroic battle to maintain eroding celebrity, she talks a lot about being
chosen. Yes,...