
Author: Christa Blackmon

Controversy is stirring after the wildly successful Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi publicly described his home country of New Zealand as “racist as f**k”. [email protected] host @Duncan
Trolls aren’t just after me, they’re after your rhetorical tools in speech against oppression Days after my twelve-hour suspension from Twitter ended, the trolls have returned under the sa

I told you all about my essay on alien sexuality in fiction appearing in the debut issue of a new feminist punk-rock magazine a few weeks ago. This is the second of my previews of this issue of VENUSz
Creative news from yours truly: my essay on (accidentally) queer alien sex in big bucks science fiction media has been published in the debut issue of the new feminist punk rock art magazine VENUS. Th

Flashback Friday is back! On a Sunday! Freelance assignments overwhelmed me a bit this month, that’s why I’ve largely been absent from LGM. That’s the freelance life though, and hope
A 1948 number one hit written by a California naturmensch and performed by an African-American jazz singer spawns countless renditions. “Nature Boy” was written in 1947 by an early

A silly men’s rights activist holiday is my excuse to post photos of men slaying it in dresses and heels. Yesterday was International Men’s Day, mostly according to people who have a bone
A modest 1970’s hit gets remade into a great spectacle by Grace Jones, Oscar Isaac, and Bahz Luhrman. Last week we took a trip (heh) back into 1960’s drug culture with Grace Slick’s