Role Reboot

‘Halloween’ 2018: A Horror Film For The #TimesUp Era

What might be possible if all women, and their allies of other genders, stood together? What would violent, penetrative, power-mad men do then? In the first act of David Gordon Green’s Halloween, Allyson (Andi Matichak)—granddaughter of John Carpenter’s original film’s Final Girl, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis)—asks why Laurie can’t just move past her trauma. […]

Aging While Female Is Not Your Worst Nightmare

I look like a typical 51-year-old, and it is just bizarre realizing that my appearance is something many young women dread. I’m going to tell you a story that is so common and so troubling it is effectively split off from the emotional lives of young women, tucked away into whatever neural recesses exist for […]