Role Reboot

What Buffy The Vampire Slayer Taught A Generation Of Feminists

Just like dusting vampires one at a time will never rid the world of evil, we’re not going to take down rape culture by throwing individual rapists through plate glass windows.  Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered twenty years ago last Friday. If that makes you feel old, you’re not alone. I’m approaching 30, and that […]

Why I Want An All-Girl Ending For ‘Gilmore Girls’

I want to see Gilmore Girls resist cultural taboos that tell women we need men in order to be affirmed or successful, or that a family absent of men is somehow less of a family than one composed solely of women. My mother died in April 2002, the same week cherry tree blossoms unfurled outside […]