Meet Japan's plus-size model: Naomi Watanabe. She looks like the first person you should take to a party and the one person who'd maybe cheer you up during the apocalypse. Her mission: to break Japanese stereotypes about women being slim and demure. In fact, she's done a hell of a lot. Not only is she… Continue reading All Female Japanese Ghostbusters
Let’s be honest. The ‘magical girl’ trope used to suck when I was a kid, especially when girls are taught to hate themselves because ‘femininity = weakness,’ and gosh are magical-girl-shows ALL ABOUT showy associations of girliness. As such, the magical girl trope only pleased young girls who hadn’t yet learnt to think ‘girliness is… Continue reading Magical Girls: Internalised Misogyny and Genre Rebirth
Willow H. Wood 