Columns
Florence Price, Delia Derbyshire & Wendy Carlos
Welcome to Canon in She, a column about female composers of Western classical music, and a few major trailblazers in electronic music as well. Today, I present three brilliant women from the 20th century.
14 July 2020
Spilling a Little Tea on the Fast Fashion Industry
So, yesterday, I saw a Facebook post that said, ‘Sis, you still crying over a guy with only four sets of clothes?’.
13 July 2020
The Curtain Calls For You to Think
If I would say one thing about Come From Away, other than that it is worth every minute and dollar, it would be that it highlights that amidst suffocating hate, it is possible to find that lemon-drop of kindness in you.
23 April 2020
Sex: A Third Culture Kid’s Experience
Every sexual experience that I have had has boiled down to one governing emotion: guilt.
23 April 2020
Badass Women
Eleanor pauses in her tracks, sucking in a breath as she turns not to face the man, but the arched windows that line the passage.
Aquitaine stretches out before her, its beauty incomparable to filthy, cramped Paris.
Lonely Hearts of the Animal Kingdom
Bonjour, mon amour! I think perhaps you are the muse I’ve been searching for.
25 March 2020
The Cherryman: The Boy from Stormwater
The first child born to a god brought the moon back.
25 March 2020
The OTHER Theory of Evolution
In science class we only celebrated successes. But for every scientific superstar there’s a generation of equally intelligent scholars who got it wrong.
23 March 2020
Barbara Strozzi
Welcome to Canon in She, a column all about women composers, their fascinating lives and brilliant music.
3 March 2020
Menstrual Cups: Yay or Nay
Menstrual cups, the lesser-known alternative to managing periods have recently come to the spotlight as climate crisis is becoming more evident, and public participation to the matter is resulting in positive and effective turns (ngl, we woke).
3 March 2020