Roxane Gay
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Spoonful of Sugar: How Mary Poppins contributed to the Covid vaccine story
- Film
- December 4, 2020, 13:30
One of Walt Disney’s most popular fictional characters has made an indirect contribution to the conversation surrounding the incoming vaccine for Covi(...)

Caroline Calloway: ‘I love fame. I love being written about’
- People
- April 30, 2020, 06:00
It is hard to imagine Caroline Calloway being of any time before the internet – like picturing a present-day Joan of Arc. She laughs when I tell her s(...)

Netflix falling short in ferocious Oscar drive
- Media & Marketing
- February 7, 2020, 16:00
Ballots for the coming Academy Awards are still being tabulated but it already seems clear – this will not be Netflix’s year. The streaming giant wil(...)

Oscars 2020: Stephen King faces backlash over diversity comments
- Film
- January 15, 2020, 10:07
In yet another year of Oscar nominations that saw a paucity of recognition for women and artists of colour, the response has been almost exhausted – a(...)

How to be a good man: what I learned from a month reading feminist classics
- Books
- October 2, 2018, 10:23
“He covered my mouth with his hand and introduced his penis. I thought my last hour had arrived. I had the feeling my stomach was turning.” These are(...)

Roseanne Barr show axed over racist slur
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 29, 2018
ABC television network in the US has cancelled comedian Roseanne Barr’s show after she posted a racist tweet comparing a former Obama adviser to an ap(...)

Kanye West’s slavery remarks: free thinker or racist troll?
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 5, 2018, 21:45
“Once again I am being attacked for presenting new ideas,” tweeted Kanye on Wednesday. Future cultural historians, picking their way through the vast(...)

Donald Clarke: ‘Roseanne’ is the latest cudgel in the brutal culture wars
- TV, Radio, Web
- April 6, 2018, 05:00
The last week would been have quieter if the 10th series of Roseanne had been useless. After all, no op-ed pages worried about that brain-withering Ma(...)

Championing women writers, broadening the mind
- Books
- March 7, 2015, 01:29
Last year the writer and illustrator Joanna Walsh created a series of hand-drawn bookmarks of some of her female literary heroes. Among them were G(...)