Farewell to Shrill: truly radical TV that laughs in the face of fatphobia | Television
[ad_1] Warning: this article contains spoilers for all three series of Shrill on Hulu/BBC Two. “I am not concerned with whether or not fat people can change their bodies through self-discipline and ‘choices’. Pretty much all of them have tried already. A couple of them have succeeded. Whatever. My question is, what if they try […]
‘They killed my best friend for supper!’ Gunda, the farmyard film that could put you off eating meat for ever | Documentary films
[ad_1] When Victor Kossakovsky was four, his parents sent him from St Petersburg to stay with his uncle’s family in the countryside. “It was a cold winter,” he says, brrr-ing over Zoom. “Minus 30 degrees.” Warmth came from the boy’s friendship with a one-month-old piglet named Vasya. They were inseparable – until she became cutlets […]
Olivia Rodrigo: Sour review – cathartic rage at teenage heartbreak | Olivia Rodrigo
[ad_1] Even in a world where streaming’s rise means chart records are broken all the time, the debut single by Disney star Olivia Rodrigo is an anomaly. Upon the release of Drivers License in January, it had the biggest first week for any song ever on Spotify – then hit the 100m streams mark faster […]
‘I’m broken and my only sin was being a woman’ – Gabrielle Goliath’s survivors | Photography
[ad_1] The event that shaped Gabrielle Goliath’s life as an artist happened when she was nine years old: a schoolfriend was killed in an act of domestic violence, the details of which have never been clear. “It would have been an accident,” she says, from her home in Johannesburg, 30 years on. “But, you know, […]
Hanif Kureishi: ‘I’d like to see a British Muslim Sopranos’ | Stage
[ad_1] Hanif Kureishi has been reflecting on toxic masculinity. He has heard a lot about it in the past year and it has entered the fiction he has been writing over lockdown – at quite a rate by the sound of it – and sparked stories about predation, sexual misdemeanour and “what’s going on between […]
Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back | Architecture
[ad_1] When Le Corbusier developed his proportional system Le Modulor in the 1940s, the great architect had in mind a handsome British policeman. His system would go on to shape the entire postwar world, dictating everything from the height of a door handle to the scale of a staircase, all governed by the need to […]
Oh yes! The best books about sex | Books
[ad_1] From sex history and modern erotica to self-help books and the art of penis origami, sex is a topic that spans every generation and culture in the world, so any “best” list can only offer the books that have meant the most to me, personally and professionally, as a historian of sex. Vénus Noire: […]
Shoephoria! The history of footwear – in pictures | Fashion
[ad_1] Shoephoria! at the Fashion Museum in Bath showcases 350 pairs of boots and shoes to illustrate their evolution over the last 300 years, demonstrating the creativity and style of shoemakers and wearers Main image: Glitter wedge-heel shoes by Peter Jensen. Photograph: Peter Stone/Fashion Museum Bath Fri 14 May 2021 05.02 EDT [ad_2] This content first […]
Outrage as male voice actor dubs Laverne Cox in Italian-language Promising Young Woman | Movies
[ad_1] The Italian-language version of Emerald Fennell’s revenge thriller Promising Young Woman has come under fire for giving trans actor Laverne Cox a male voice. Scheduled to hit theatres across the country on 13 May, the release has been pushed back after a clip of Una Donna Promettente was posted by Universal Pictures Italy on […]
Teen spirit in suburbia: Lauren Tepfer’s evocative images – in pictures | Art and design
[ad_1] My Mother’s Daughter ‘I soon realised that to make work that I felt good about, I had to make things that were reflective of where I was in my life. So I turned my camera inwards and began shooting myself, my small town, my friends, family, everything that felt so minuscule and unimportant to […]
