Grace Lapointe CN: mention of cannibalism, infanticide, death in childbirth, genitals, sexism, LGBTQIA-misia, antisemitism, and ableism. [Author’s note: In April, my coworker at Book Riot, Leah Rachel von Essen, published a great essay analyzing the origins of Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for Hammer of Witches). The Malleus equated witches with “heresy”…

Content notice: discusses physical and psychological child abuse, racist tropes, colonialism, eugenics, white supremacy, sexism, and ableism in a SFF setting Paul Atreides, the protagonist and controversial messiah figure from the classic 1965 sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert, is a result of the Bene Gesserit Order’s centuries-long eugenics program…

CN: spoilers for all of Orphan Black (the TV series. I haven’t listened to the audio series Orphan Black: The Next Chapter yet.) Trigger warnings: sexual, physical, and medical violence; murder; suicide; eugenics; genocide; ableism Orphan Black was a Canadian, sci-fi TV show that aired on Space and BBC America…

CN: discusses racism, genocide, ableism, sexism, and cis-sexist gender binaries All ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects, by the functioning of the category of the subject. … ideology ‘acts’ or ‘functions’ in such a way that it ‘recruits’ subjects among the individuals (it recruits them all), or…

Here’s my first quiz for Book Riot: Can You Guess the Last Lines from These 10 Classic Novels? [Doctor Who spoilers below, mostly for older episodes] I also blogged about Doctor Who’s recent decision to depict the villain Davros without facial scars or a wheelchair. If Davros invented the Daleks…

New today on Book Riot: I wrote about Doctor Who! I’ve written about Doctor Who before. In 2022, I wrote “The Veil Between the Worlds,” a fanfic about the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler that’s inspired by The Wicker Man (1973) and The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope. I…

CN: ableism, racism, eugenics, mentions physical abuse of humans and non-human animals I recently deactivated my Twitter and listed a few reasons why over on my other blog. I also noticed an increase in ableism on Twitter before I left, including in supposedly leftist and COVID-cautious online spaces. I write…

In this new Book Riot article, I examine several famous, fake books within books (including All of Them Witches in the photo below). What purposes do they serve inside the main narratives, and why do some people think or wish they were real? …

Content notice: spoilers for Frank Herbert’s first three Dune novels, discussions of white supremacy, antisemitism, fatmisia, LGBTQIA-misia, ableism, racism, child abuse, and incest This is a follow-up to my essay “Dune’s Intellectual Ableism as a Function of Its White Supremacy,” which I posted on my Medium blog in October 2022…