Jennifer Smart is a 2D animator and colorist who has produced projects for the Middle East Institute and National Geographic. Currently a Cinema and Media Studies student at the University of Southern California, her long-term goal is to bring intellectually and emotionally challenging subject matter into the public eye through a marriage of illustrative animation and … [Read more...] about How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Forget the Bomb
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The Femme Fatale in LGBT Science Fiction
The Femme Fatale in LGBT Science Fiction By Sareen Palassian A popular 20th-century trope turned cliché, the femme fatale embodies a misogynistic fear-driven view of women. This “fatal woman” leads men to ruin through her sexuality and feminine wiles, and despite her being a fictional figure, her prominence has spilled over into real-world anxieties and revulsion against … [Read more...] about The Femme Fatale in LGBT Science Fiction