Women Writers and Banned Books–Reflections from the Brooklyn Book Festival
“Lois Lowry is a WOMAN!?” This surprised exclamation came from my best friend, looking at a bookmark I have tacked up on my wall from this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival. And her surprise came as no surprise to me. What do these Y.A. authors have in common? S.E. Hinton K.A. Applegate J.K. Rowling
Feminism and Health in The Hunger Games
This post originally appeared on my blog Writing Not Raging about a year ago. I was inspired to write this post by a chapter in  Cyberfeminism 2.0 – “Beyond Democratization and Subversion: Rethinking Feminist Analytical Approaches to Girls’ Cultural Production on the Internet” by Rosalind Sibielski. Sibielski, talking specifically about the production of fan videos by […]
Insulin Pumps: Designed by men, for men?
Though my insulin pump is not a common piece of technology, for me it’s an integral part of my day-to-day life and the first thing that comes to mind for me when I think of technology (after the usual suspects of computers, smartphones, TVs etc.). What’s an insulin pump? For those of you who don’t […]
