Film reviews: Twitter edition
I’ve been too busy to blog because I’m working on a long project, but what do you know – I haven’t been too busy for twitter threads. Here are some […]
Author Archives: Katrina Zaat
Film reviews
While I was in grad school I reviewed movies, because it got me into the cinema for free. Film reviews are technically very difficult – at least I think they […]
Domesticated
This essay was first published in the online magazine The Junket in 2015. I was engaged to be married once, and then I wasn’t. An ordinary calamity, but pretty personally […]
Interview with Jacqueline Rose
Feminist psychoanalytic philosopher and literary critic Jacqueline Rose had a visiting professorship at Cambridge last year which coincided with the release of her latest book, Women in Dark Times. Rose […]
Extreme pornography and the law: it’s complicated
The status of violent and degrading pornography is changing under English law. The new legislative approach seems to be having some success, but these revisions to the statues still need […]
In Pornworld: article up at King’s Review
The porn tsunami is upon us. A multi-billion-dollar global industry, pornography is everywhere, much of it getting into the hands of children and threatening to permanently rewire their attitudes toward […]
Some Thoughts on Some Thoughts on Education
A week ago the Guardian newspaper published in full a strange document – a 237-page essay by Dominic Cummings, outgoing special advisor to UK education minister David Gove, which ranges […]
Bully: Gillard vs the misogynists, round 196
There’s a particularly Australian kind of bully – male, laconic,* infinitely entitled. The media’s full of them. Workplaces and schools, too. Berating them doesn’t work, and neither does reason, because it’s […]
Don’t talk to me about Fifty Shades
I was at an excellent symposium recently, and my enjoyment was sharpened when it occurred to me, fifteen minutes in, that we were being addressed by three women and a […]
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