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Why I’m Glad Doctor Who Changed Davros

CN: spoilers and discussions of ableism On November 17th, 2023, Doctor Who’s short “Destination: Skaro” aired during the Children in Need telethon. This was the first time the iconic villain Davros stood and walked and was not scarred or using a wheelchair. As the current showrunner, Russell T. …

Doctor Who

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Why I’m Glad Doctor Who Changed Davros
Why I’m Glad Doctor Who Changed Davros
Doctor Who

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Subverting Authority and Gender Binaries in Macbeth

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”…

Macbeth

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Subverting Authority and Gender Binaries in Macbeth
Subverting Authority and Gender Binaries in Macbeth
Macbeth

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Dune’s Intellectual Ableism as a Function of Its White Supremacy

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…

Dune

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Dune’s Intellectual Ableism as a Function of Its White Supremacy
Dune’s Intellectual Ableism as a Function of Its White Supremacy
Dune

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Orphan Black’s Neolution is Tryborg and Eugenicist

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…

Orphan Black

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Orphan Black’s Neolution is Tryborg and Eugenicist
Orphan Black’s Neolution is Tryborg and Eugenicist
Orphan Black

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Explorabook and Earthsearch: 1990s Kids’ Science Books as Vectors of Ideology

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…

Critical Theory

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Explorabook and Earthsearch: 1990s Kids’ Science Books as Vectors of Ideology
Explorabook and Earthsearch: 1990s Kids’ Science Books as Vectors of Ideology
Critical Theory

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5 days ago

Book Riot Quiz and Even More on Doctor Who

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…

Doctor Who

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Doctor Who

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Nov 9

Updates, Disability Literature and Theory Interview, and Random Thoughts About Doctor Who and OFMD

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…

Doctor Who

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Updates, Disability Literature and Theory Interview, and Random Thoughts About Doctor Who and OFMD
Updates, Disability Literature and Theory Interview, and Random Thoughts About Doctor Who and OFMD
Doctor Who

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Oct 6

Some Thoughts on Online Ableism

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…

Ableism

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Ableism

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Jun 2

Our Favorite Books — That Don’t Exist

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? …

Books

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Our Favorite Books — That Don’t Exist
Our Favorite Books — That Don’t Exist
Books

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Mar 23

The Apotheosis of Paul Atreides

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…

Dune

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The Apotheosis of Paul Atreides
The Apotheosis of Paul Atreides
Dune

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