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Scarlett Harris is a culture critic, author of A Diva Was a Female Version of a Wrestler: An Abbreviated Herstory of World Wrestling Entertainment and editor of The Women Of Jenji Kohan, both out now through Fayetteville Mafia Press. You can follow her on Twitter, subscribe to her Substack, email her at scarlett.harris@y7mail.com, and read her previously published work below.

2024:

[The Cherry Picks] 13 Going on 30 Turns 20: Movies & TV Shows That Feature Women in Media, 23rd April.

[The Guardian] “We’re The Main Attraction”: When Women’s Pro Wrestling Came to Ballarat, 20th April.

[Substack] A Tale of Two Memoirs & One WrestleMania Main Event, 9th April.

[Substack] What’s Black & White All Over? The Crossword Mamma, 26th March.

[Substack] Barbie Was Always About Ken, 10th March.

[BBC] Live Academy Awards Red Carpet Reporting, 10th March.

[The Cherry Picks] He’s Just Not That Into You: How Far Dating Has Come in 15 Years, 8th March.

[Substack] “The Fact That She Could Bring an Item of Such Cultural Importance Overseas at This Time Was Not Soft Power—It Was Power”: Interview with Katie Rogers, author of American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden, 6th March.

[Substack] A Tarot Reading with Rachel Kapelke-Dale, Author of The Fortune Seller, 5th March.

[BBC] Saltburn‘s “Tacky Rich Kid” ’00s Look is Taking Over, 27th February.

[CNN Style] Jawbreaker Is Turning 25, But the Film’s Costumes Still Represent Iconic Teen Fashion, 18th February.

[CNN Style] How To Recreate the Most Famous Fashion Collection of All Time? New Series The New Look Dives Into Dior, 14th February.

[The Meteor] The “Upskirt Decade” Explained, 1st February.

[Interview] Meet Bianca Belair, Wrestling Champ Turned Reality TV Star, 1st February.

[ABC Everyday] Australian Author Jodi McAlister’s Marry Me, Juliet Series is Inspired by The Bachelor Franchise, 24th January.

[Shondaland] You’re Wrong About The Women in Pablo Picasso’s Life, According to Historical Novelist Jeanne Mackin, 22nd January.

[BBC] Has Mean Girls Lost Its Bite?, 16th January.

[Shondaland] It’s Not Your Mother’s Mean Girls. And That Goes for the Fashion, Too, 12th January.

2023:

[Medium] 2023 Was the Return of Fun Cinema, 23rd December.

[Shondaland] BEYONCÉ Stopped the World When That Digital Album Dropped, 13th December.

[Shondaland] Co-Authors Christine Platt & Catherine Wigginton Greene Talk New Novel, Rebecca, Not Becky, 5th December.

[Shondaland] Dolly Parton on Her New Rock Album, New Book & Fashion Advice: “It’s Important to Feel Comfortable in Your Own Skin,” 16th November.

[The Meteor] Love, Actually is Bad, Actually, 14th November.

[Shondaland] Author Stephanie Land on Class: “I Deserve What I’ve Worked Hard For… This Might Be the First Time I’ve Said It,” 8th November.

[Shondaland] She Had Style, She Had Flair: The Costume Designer of The Nanny Breaks Down the Show’s Iconic Looks, 1st November.

[Medium] Britney Spears’ The Woman in Me is About Control, 1st November.

[Scary Mommy] 5 Years Ago, Halloween Almost Gave Us the Feminist Horror Franchise We Deserve, 26th October.

[Fatherly] New Barbie Dolls Feature Three Iconic Ted Lasso Characters—But Somebody is Missing, 24th October.

[Siren Sport] Five Years on From WWE Evolution and WWE Still Needs One, 17th October.

[The Big Issue] Gunflower by Laura Jean McKay review, 13th October.

[ABC Everyday] Shows Like Gen V Are Changing How Periods Are Depicted On Our Screens, 11th October.

[The Daily Beast] “Why Did You Do That?”: Lady Gaga’s “Bad” Pop Song from A Star is Born Turns Five, 10th October.

[The Meteor] A Brief History of the Internet… And The Women Who’ve Been Left Out Of It, 5th October.

[The Meteor] “Parenting in America Feels So Nonconsensual”: Where Rape Culture Meets Motherhood, 21st September.

[Observer] Authors Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel on Melville, Marriage and Writing Dayswork, 18th September.

[Shondaland] Andrew Chan on His New Book Why Mariah Carey Matters: “It’s Hard for People to Process That She’s a Singer-Songwriter,” 13th September.

[The Cut] How Podcaster Karina Longworth Gets It Done, 11th September.

[Observer] Gillian Flynn on Writing, Publishing and The Centre, 6th September.

[Dwell] The Interior Design of Meryl Streep’s Only Murders in the Building Studio is Full of Easter Eggs, 30th August.

[Scary Mommy] And Just Like That‘s Abortion Cop-Out is So Disappointing, 24th August.

[ABC Everyday] Is the Portrayal of Disordered Eating on Physical Helpful or Harmful?, 24th August.

[The Zoe Report] The Trench Coat is a Key Character in Only Murders in the Building Season 3, 17th August.

[Shondaland] To All the BoysCrazy Rich Asians & the Re-Emergence of Substantive Rom-Coms, 16th August.

[Shondaland] Only Murders in the Building Set Decorator Rich Murray on Season 3 Penthouse: It’s a “Planet Hollywood Dedicated to” Paul Rudd, 15th August.

[Scary Mommy] Barbie is the Bubbly, Bright Pink Version of Don’t Worry Darling, 2nd August.

[Medium] The Parent Trap 25th Anniversary—Deeply Problematic, 29th July.

[SBS] Going Against the Rules: Costumer Lynsey Moore on Creating the Look of Anne Boleyn, 28th July.

[She Knows] In And Just Like That…, Charlotte Reconsiders Her Famous “Choice” That Divided Feminists in the 2000s, 27th July.

[She Knows] Barbie Just Might Be Asexual—And the Movie Proves It, 26th July.

[Shondaland] Novelist Laura Lippman on Prom Mom, Tess Monaghan & “the Possibilities of Late Life,” 25th July.

[BBC] And Just Like That…: Are These TV’s Ultimate Mid-Life Looks?, 24th July.

[Medium] This Barbie Didn’t Like the Barbie Movie, 23rd July.

[Fatherly] Ranking All the Kens From Barbie, 21st July.

[Shondaland] What Barbie Means to Me: 15 Women Unpack Their Feelings About the Famous Doll, 21st July.

[The Meteor] Barbie, Child-Free Icon, 20th July.

[Shondaland] Orange is the New Black & Its Legacy, 11th July.

[The Cut] Gillian Flynn Spends Her Days With Some Pretty Dark Characters, 10th July.

[The Big Issue] Wifedom by Anna Funder review, 7th July.

[Shondaland] How a New York Times Nail Salon Exposé Inspired Mai Nguyen to Write Sunshine Nails, 4th July.

[Shondaland] Self-Made: Author Tara Isabella Burton on Her New Book, the American Dream & Influencer Culture, 27th June.

[Vogue] How Does a Book End Up in And Just Like That? The Show’s Prop Master Explains, 22nd June.

[Shondaland] “Reflection”: A History of the Best Song from Mulan, 16th June.

[Shondaland] Ocean’s 8 Made Us Stop #Hathahating—And Spawned the Anne Hathaway Renaissance, 9th June.

[Observer] Losing My Ambition: A Conversation with Author Rainesford Stauffer, 9th June.

[Shondaland] We Should All Be Samanthas: Celebrating the Best Friend of Sex & the City for Its 25th Anniversary, 6th June.

[Shondaland] In Megan Abbott’s Beware the Woman, We Must Beware of Men, 30th May.

[Refinery29] From Yellowjackets to Class of ’07: TV is Giving Young Women Permission to Rage, 18th May.

[Shondaland] Brittany Snow on September Letters, Her Directorial Debut & Mental Health, 17th May.

[Shondaland] Caroline Kepnes Kills Joe Goldberg’s Darlings in Fourth You Book, For You & Only You, 25th April.

[Shondaland] The Impractical Dresses of GhostedPoker Face & The Lost City: “Costume Designers Have to Figure It All Out,” 21st April.

[Fatherly] 15 Years Ago, One Rom-Com Was Way Better Than It Had Any Right to Be, 18th April.

[Shondaland] In Mafia Mamma, Director Catherine Hardwicke is Making Space for Women Leaders and Saying Goodbye to Toxic Masculinity, 13th April.

[Inside Hook] Ted Lasso’s Toxic Positivity, Explained, 5th April.

[Deadspin] Is the New Vince McMahon Biography Worth Reading?, 27th March.

[Fatherly] The Very Best Needle-Drops & Musical Numbers in Ted Lasso, Ranked, 22nd March.

[The Daily Beast] It’s Their High School Reunion—At the End of the World, 21st March.

[Observer] Author Regan Penaluna Explains How to Think Like a Woman, 15th March.

[Shondaland] Everything Everywhere All At Once Solidifies Its Legacy as the Academy Awards Approach, 7th March.

[Shondaland] Smart, Vibrant Female Characters Should Ditch Their Lackluster Love Interests, 21st February.

[Shondaland] The Incredible Bartz Sisters, 16th February.

[Shondaland] Patricia Field Wrote the Blueprint for Fashion on TV, 14th February.

[Fatherly] Magic Mike’s Last Dance is Actually a Fantastic Date Night Movie, 14th February.

[Medium] Groundhog Day Showed Us Who Bill Murray Is, 10th February.

[She Knows] Emily Joins the Canon of Modern Reimaginings of Misunderstood Women Throughout History, 7th February.

[The Daily Beast] Kate Hudson in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Was the Original “Cool Girl,” 3rd February.

[Fatherly] The Best Date Night Show of the Year is the Best Kind of Throwback, 25th January.

[Shondaland] The Rom-Com is No Longer the Purview of 20-Somethings, 24th January.

[Junkee] The Multiverse of Motherhood, 19th January.

[Junkee] A New Wave of TV Refuses To Make Abortion a Big Deal, 18th January.

[Alternative Press] How Glass Onion Uses Famous Art & The Art of Satire to Craft Its Own Disruption, 17th January.

[Medium] Heather Radke: A Profile, 4th January.

2022:

[Fatherly] 25 Years Ago, The Biggest Band in the World Made a Movie You Can’t Believe Exists, 28th December.

[Junkee] Every Famous Person Cameo in Glass Onion, Ranked, 21st December.

[Alternative Press] Beatrice Grannò on Winning The White Lotus & Working with Este Haim, 20th December.

[The Daily Beast] What It’s Like to Have Your TV Show Unceremoniously Canceled, 9th December.

[Shondaland] Rachel Kapelke-Dale Explores a Child Prodigy’s Complicated Past in The Ingenue, 7th December.

[Shondaland] Bring It On is Still Part of the Cheerocracy, 22 Years Later, 2nd December.

[She Knows] Welcome to Chippendales is Just Another Wannabe Prestige Drama That Ignores Its Female Characters, 29th November.

[Lilith] A Jewish Author’s Obsession with Dolly Parton, 22nd November.

[Shondaland] Dead to Me Season 3 is a Lesson in Letting Go, 18th November.

[Fatherly] 30 Years Later, Home Alone 2 is Still Way Better Than the Original for One Big Reason, 16th November.

[She Knows] Five Years After #MeToo, Hollywood—& the Public—Continues to Believe Men, 27th October.

[Shondaland] Amanda Parrish Morgan Unpacks the Stroller’s Impact on Motherhood in New Book Stroller, 26th October.

[The Meteor] Look Both Ways Wilfully Ignores Abortion, 4th October.

[Medium] The Best Reboots Are Still the Cancelled Ones, 28th September.

[Polygon] To Evolve, Law & Order Had to Ax One of Its Long-Running Characters, 22nd September.

[Shondaland] Betty Gilpin’s All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns is For All of Us, 14th September.

[The Daily Beast] Cobra Kai Finally Does Something New: Develops Its Heroes, 6th September.

[Medium] Tracy Flick Still Can’t Win, 5th September.

[Medium] Bad Art Friend in Two Novels, 4th September.

[Medium] The Real Estate Crisis of For a Good Time, Call… Holds Up 10 Years Later, 3rd September.

[She Knows] How Mindy Kaling’s The Mindy Project Ushered In a New Era of Anti-Heroines, 25th August.

[Refinery29] True Crime TV Shows Force Us to Face Society’s Misdeeds—But Who Are They Really Helping?, 15th August.

[Medium] A League of Their Own is the Female Ensemble Comedy We’ve Been Missing, 12th August.

[She Knows] How Ingrid Goes West, Not Okay & Rap Sh!t Portray How Women Perform on Social Media, 10th August.

[Siren Sport] WWE Never Cared About the Women’s Tag Team Championships, 2nd August.

[She Knows] Why the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Has Stayed Off Our Screens Since Ruby Sparks, 25th July.

[Shondaland] Only Murders in the Building Costume Designer Dana Covarrubias on Season 2, 6th July.

[She Knows] Jennifer Lopez’s Second Act Proves She’s Our Modern-Day Elizabeth Taylor, 23rd June.

[The Ringer] Gone Girl, Still Here, 8th June.

[InStyle] The Flight Attendant Season 2’s Wardrobe Pivot Makes So Much Sense, 11th May.

[She Knows] My So-Called Selfish Life Embraces Moving Past the Need to “Come Out” as Child-Free, 6th May.

[Medium] Apple TV+ Dims the Shining Girls, 30th April.

[Medium] Romy & Michele’s 25th High School Reunion, 27th April.

[Elite Daily] Hilary Duff’s Best TV Outfits Are What Dreams Are Made Of, 22nd April.

[Polygon] The Flight Attendant Season 2 Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Kaley Cuocos, 21st April.

[Bitch] From Mrs. Maisel to Rory, Amy Sherman-Palladino Relies on Flimsy Anti-Heroines, 30th March.

[She Knows] Our Disenchantment with the Girlboss is Playing Out on TV, 30th March.

[She Knows] The Penises in Minx vs. Pam & Tommy: A Tale of Two Gazes, 24th March.

[Refinery29] #SpeakingOut: What’s Changed for the Aussie Wrestling Scene Since the Industry’s #MeToo Movement?, 8th March.

[She Knows] Severance Can Only Imagine a World in Which Our Work-Life Balance is Even Worse, 22nd February.

[Insider] How Reese Witherspoon Overcame the ‘Best Actress’ Curse to Build $900 Million Empire Behind Big Little Lies and The Morning Show, 19th February.

[She Knows] Santa Clarita Diet Was an Unexpectedly Honest Portrayal of Modern Marriage, 3rd February.

[Medium] Pam & Tommy Isn’t About Pam At All, 2nd February.

[Polygon] At Least Kristen Bell’s Netflix Crime Thriller Comedy Thing is a Well-Studied Spoof, 28th January.

[Harper’s Bazaar] Meredith Hagner on the Millennial Malaise of Search Party, 24th January.

[Fatherly] Cobra Kai Season 4 Finally Fixed the Show’s Biggest Problem, 13th January.

[Salon] The Power of Jumpsuits on Claws, 2nd January.

2021:

[Polygon] Black Mirror is the Perfect 2021 Christmas Watch, 23rd December.

[FanFyte] Go Home, Women’s Wrestling!: A Conversation with Gene Kwak, 21st December.

[Cosmopolitan] It Took Two Whole Weeks to Create Catherine’s Coronation Dress for The Great Season 2, 14th December.

[Observer] Fresh Perspectives on Old Stories Explore Illness & Chronic Pain, 2nd November.

[She Knows] Amazon’s Canceled Good Girls Revolt Predicted the #MeToo Movement a Year Before Everything Changed, 28th October.

[Fatherly] The Best Fictional Wrestlers in Film & TV, Ranked, 8th October.

[FanFyte] Why is Asuka the Second Fiddle of the Women’s Division?, 19th September.

[Fatherly] Sex Education on Netflix is Essential Viewing for Parents, 9th September.

[Inside Hook] What Heels Gets Wrong About Professional Wrestling, 16th August.

[Observer] Mrs. March Subverts the Dead Girl Muse Trope, 10th August.

[Bitch] Media Exposes Ballet’s Ugly Side, 10th August.

[Inside Hook] Female Rage Has Taken Over TV This Summer, 27th July.

[Fatherly] Why We Need the Non-Toxic Masculinity of Ted Lasso, 21st July.

[Bitch] In Two New Books, Postpartum Psychosis is a Home Invader, 20th July.

[Siren Sport] WWE’s Women’s Money in the Bank Match Needs to Be Meaningful This Year, 13th July.

[She Knows] Legally Blonde Was a Celebration of Underestimated Women Like Kim Kardashian 20 Years Ahead of Its Time, 12th July.

[Siren Sport] World Wrestling Entertainment Doesn’t Understand Women’s Friendships, 22nd June.

[Kill Your Darlings] Pop Culture’s Mythical “Dream Job”, 21st June.

[We Are HorrorScream 3 & the Me Too Movement, 17th June.

[Atta Girl] Younger Series Finale: Liza Should Have Chosen Herself, 13th June.

[Capsule 98] The Women of The Hills Were the Original Influencers, 1st June.

[She Knows] 5 Things The Handmaid’s Tale Needs to Step Up & Fix in Season 4, 26th April.

[Bitch] Younger is Ultimately a Rom-Com About Women, 16th April.

[Your Tango] Zoey’s Playlist & the Problem With Shows About Women That Rely on Cheap Gimmicks, 26th February.

[Capsule 98] An Incomplete Ranking of TV Reboots, From Worst to Best, 5th February.

[Mental Floss] 7 Facts About Los Angeles’ Notorious Cecil Hotel, 3rd February.

2020:

[Observer] Praise the TV Shows Where Women’s “Strength” is Also in Their Muscles, 17th December.

[Bitch] Bad (White) Moms Dominate Christmas Movies, 16th December.

[Sustainability Action Network] Why Haven’t We Figured Out Meal Replacements Yet?, 7th December.

[New York Times] Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love GLOW, 13th November.

[Australian Screen Review] Normalising Abortion on The Letdown, 18th October.

[Mental Floss] 10 Facts About NXIVM and The Vow, HBO’s True Crime Docuseries, 5th October.

[The Guardian] I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: Survivor-Centred True Crime on the Hunt for the Golden State Killer, 11th September.

[Syfy] The Boys Season 2 is a Lesson on Toxic Masculinity, 5th September.

[Capsule 98] Bring It On Doesn’t Hold Up—Until the Clovers Show Up, 21st August.

[Mental Floss] 11 Facts About Coyote Ugly on Its 20th Anniversary, 5th August.

[Mental Floss] 10 Facts About I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, 22nd July.

[Medium] Good Girls Break Bad, 17th July.

[Mic] After Decades of Toxic Masculinity, Professional Wrestling Is Finally Facing a Reckoning, 16th July.

[Bitch] Can The Baby-Sitters Club Reboot Hang with Today’s Teen Shows?, 6th July.

[Harper’s Bazaar] Killing Eve‘s Villanelle Has Millennial Burnout, 1st June.

[Medium] Sex & the City 2 & Women’s Greed, 27th May.

[Power Plays] In Wrestling, Women Are Collateral Damage, 8th April.

[Crime Reads] Blurring the Lines Between Criminal Justice & Popular Culture, 6th April.

[Crime Reads] 8 Books About Male Protagonists by Female Authors, 20th March.

[Junkee] We Need To Talk About How Rich Everyone is on The Bold Type, 27th February.

[Mic] Australia’s Bushfires Made Me Go Vegetarian, 1st February.

[FanByte] As The Good Place Wraps Up, What Have We Learned?, 22nd January.

[Pulp] Wrestling with Menstruation, 17th January.

2019:

[whimn] 2019 Was the Year the Female Gaze Came to Hollywood, 24th December.

[SBS Voices] Why is it So Hard to Volunteer on Christmas?, 6th December.

[OZY] Why World Wrestling Entertainment’s Continued Support of Saudi Arabia is Downright Scary, 29th October.

[OZY] Women Wrestle to Reshape Sport’s Written Narrative, 17th October.

[ten daily] The Charmed Reboot is Better Than the Original, 11th October.

[FanByte] What is the Law & Order Sound?, 27th September.

[Crime Reads] On the Female Archetypes of True Crime, 19th September.

[Daily Xtra] 9 Reasons Why Blanca from Pose is the Best Character on TV Right Now, 19th August.

[Contingent] What Gear Can Do, 17th August.

[Polygon] In GLOW Season 3, The Ladies Wrestle With a Different Set of Challenges, 13th August.

[Junkee] Orange is the New Black is Over, But The Golden Age of the Anti-Heroine Lives On, 29th July.

[Whimn] The One Big Problem with Younger, 12th June.

[Shondaland] The Women of Claws Are Just Like Us: Tired of Being Underestimated, 6th June.

[Crime Reads] Why Women Are Spearheading the True Crime Renaissance, 5th June.

[FanByte] The Charmed Reboot Reimagines “Evil” Women, 23rd May.

[Garage] Is Wrestling the Purest Iteration of Camp?, 2nd May.

[Polygon] Killing Eve is Slowly Killing Spy Tropes, 15th April.

[Whimn] The Female Mentorship on The Bold Type is the Most Refreshing Thing on TV, 10th April.

[FanByte] No Apologies: A Conversation with Becky Lynch, 3rd April.

[Crime Reads] Why Do We Keep Romanticizing Evil Men?, 3rd April.

[Whimn] 10 Things I Love About 10 Things I Hate About You, 1st April.

[Hello Giggles] Chyna Broke Through Professional Wrestling’s Sexism, But Her Legacy Deserves More, 31st March.

[Playboy] The Next Wave of Sexually Fluid Mermaids, 24th January.

[Junkee] Jane Sloan is the Worst Character on The Bold Type, 10th January.

2018:

[Polygon] The Witches of 2018 Summoned an Essential Message, 30th December.

[Whimn] The Big Problem with Penn Badgley’s New Netflix Series, 20th December.

[Film School Rejects] Murphy Brown & The Last Anti-Heroine, 20th December.

[Electric Literature] Goodbye, Dead Girl—Hello, Killer Woman, 4th December.

[New Now Next] Why is World Wrestling Entertainment Hosting An All-Male Event in a Country That Executes Gay People?, 2nd November.

[A Beautiful Perspective] Intergender Wrestling Empowers Women By Pitting Them Against the Men, 1st November.

[Diva Dirt] The Evolution of the Diva, 28th October.

[Digital Spy] Why Total Divas Still Matters After World Wrestling Entertainment’s Women’s Wrestling Evolution, 25th October.

[VRV] The Wild World of Wrestling Weddings, 23rd October.

[Daily Life] Women’s Wrestling Made a Splash in Melbourne, So What’s Next, 20th October.

[Playboy] The Unbearable Straightness of The Bachelor, 18th October.

[Vague Visages] In the Shadow of The Hairy Bird, 15th October.

[ten daily] World Wrestling Entertainment is Relying on Has-Beens to Pack Out the Melbourne Cricket Ground, 4th October.

[GOAT] Australian Wrestling Companies Are Starting to Position Women to be as Important as Men, 28th September.

[Kill Your Darlings] What’s Our Problem With Unlikable Leading Ladies?, 26th September.

[The Independent] World Wrestling Entertainment’s Women Wrestlers Have Been Undervalued for Far Too Long—It’s Time for Them to Strike, 6th September.

[GOAT] The André the Giant Documentary is a Revisionist History of the Wrestling Industry & a Weirdly Timed Rehabilitation of Hulk Hogan, 5th September.

[GOAT] Claws is the Most Fun Show You’re Not Watching, And the Most Revolutionary, 6th August.

[GOAT] UnREAL‘s Picture of Women with Power is Far From Revolutionary, and in Season 4, It’s Downright Ugly, 26th July.

[SBS Life] Why the Martha Whisper Network is a Fitting End to The Handmaid’s Tale, 13th July.

[Playboy] Artist Spencer Tunick is Fighting for the Right to Get Naked, 9th July.

[Fightful] GLOW Season Two Characters Draw Comparisons to WWE Superstars of Present & Past, 29th June.

[Playboy] GLOW Takes Women’s Wrestling Where the WWE Won’t, 28th June.

[Bitch] GLOW Mirrors the Real-Life Violation of Women Wrestlers, 27th June.

[Playboy] How a Hoodie Became Marvel’s Most Powerful Costume, 25th June.

[Whimn] What ’90s Horror Movies Taught Me About Being a Woman, 21st June.

[Whimn] We Need to Talk About the Outfits in Charmed, 21st June.

[Sports Retriever] NXT’s Weak Women, 15th June.

[Whimn] “I Lived Like Carrie Bradshaw for a Year & Wow, It Wasn’t Cheap,” 4th June.

[HuffPost] We’re All Mirandas Now, 27th May.

[Whimn] The Dark Truth about The Handmaid’s Tale, 2nd May.

[SBS Life] The Red Robes of The Handmaid’s Tale Have Gone Global, 11th April.

[Electric Literature] How One of Wrestling’s Biggest Stars is Reenacting a Sexist 19th-Century Plot Device, 6th April.

[Sports Retriever] World Wrestling Entertainment Needs Women’s Tag Team Championships, 1st April.

[SBS On Demand] How Female-Fronted TV is Shepherding Us Through This Political Nightmare, 28th March.

[Sports Retriever] Wrestling While Mothering, It’s Becoming More Mainstream, 16th March.

[Playboy] Rethinking Ronda Rousey, 23rd February.

[HuffPost] Has #MeToo Reached the Wrestling World?, 9th February.

[SBS Life] What’s It Like to Be a Muslim Women’s Wrestler, 7th February.

[The Daily Beast] It’s Time for World Wrestling Entertainment to Close Its Gender Pay Gap, 27th January.

[Playboy] A Literal Battle of the Sexes: Is Mixed-Gender Wrestling Making a Comeback?, 16th January.

2017:

[SBS On Demand] How Barbie Became a Progressive Icon, 15th December.

[SBS Sexuality] Getting to Know Transgender Wrestler Candy Lee, 7th December.

[Racked] In Professional Wrestling, Makeup Doesn’t Just Make You Look Good, 30th November.

[Writers Bloc] Should Writers Subscribe to The Sites They Write For?, 22nd November.

[SBS Life] My “Selfish” Life: What’s the Big Deal About Being a Child-Free Woman?, 27th October.

[Racked] Is World Wrestling Entertainment Finally Recognising the Buying Power of Women & Girls, 11th September.

[SBS Sexuality] Some Queer Storyline Suggestions for World Wrestling Entertainment, 6th September.

[Daily Life] Are the Kardashians Losing Their Skill for Spin?, 5th September.

[SBS On Demand] The Good Fight is the Show We Need Now, 31st July.

[Paste] GLOW Understands Women’s Wrestling Better Than World Wrestling Entertainment, 27th July.

[Paste] Why is World Wrestling Entertainment So Afraid of Intergender Wrestling?, 26th July.

[Paste] Paige & the Redemption & Erasure of Wrestling Trainwrecks, 25th July.

[Paste] Will the Body Diversity of NXT’s Women Make it to the Main Roster?, 24th July.

[Paste] Progressive Heels, Regressive Faces: WWE’s In-Story Politics Are a Mess, 11th July.

[Paste] Four Wrestling Fans React to Netflix’s GLOW, 7th July.

[SBS On Demand] The Handmaid’s Tale is Streaming Right Now: Here’s Why You Should Watch It, 6th July.

[Paste] Ten Years Later: The Chris Benoit Murder-Suicide, 29th June.

[SBS On Demand] How Watching Search Party is Like Looking into a Millennial Mirror, 26th June.

[SBS Life] I Can’t Get a Rental Because I Own a Dog. So Now I’m Homeless, 19th June.

[Writers Bloc] Should I Write a Book?, 6th June.

[SBS Movies] Get Out-Related Roundtable About Race, 12th May.

[Paste] AJ Lee’s Memoir & Wrestling’s Handling of Mental Illness, 9th May.

[Paste] One Year After Chyna’s Death, What’s Changed for Women in World Wrestling Entertainment?, 17th April.

[Paste] Who Has Benefitted Most from World Wrestling Entertainment’s 2016 Brand Extension Draft?, 10th April.

[Paste] John Cena’s On-Screen Proposal Does a Disservice to Nikki Bella, 5th April.

[Bitch Flicks] Rory Gilmore is an Entitled Millennial, 20th March.

[Writers Bloc] All About (Certain Kinds of) Women, 9th March.

[Paste] But What If You’re Not a “Hugger”?, 8th March.

[Feminartsy] We Need Diversity in Podcasts, 2nd March.

[SBS Life] Single in Your 30s: Why It’s Okay to Have No Close Friends, 28th February.

[Paste] A Dearth of Women’s Merch for World Wrestling Entertainment Fans, 22nd February.

[Archer Magazine] Porn: On Regulation, Censorship & Education in the Wake of Prop 60, 21st February.

[Paste] World Wrestling Entertainment’s Sexist “Woman VS. Diva” Problem Remains, 3rd February.

[Writers Bloc] Leaving New York, 2nd February.

[Calling Spots] Has The Rock Lost His Electricity?, Issue 22.

[Writers Bloc] Writing Guilt, 27th January.

[Paste] World Wrestling Entertainment Needs a Women’s Royal Rumble, 26th January.

[SBS Life] Why I Went to Donald Trump’s Inauguration & Washington D.C.’s Women’s March, 23rd January.

[Intergender World Champs] Shine Theory in WWE, 20th January.

[Paste] Supporting World Wrestling Entertainment May Mean Supporting the Trump Administration, 11th January.

[Paste] Why World Wrestling Entertainment Needs Quotas, 3rd January.

2016: 

[F is for Feminism] Why You’re More Than Your University Entrance Score, 10th December.

[Bitch Flicks] Why Lorelai Gilmore from Gilmore Girls is a “Cool Girl”, 1st December.

[Archer] The James Deen Allegations: How Porn Sets the Example for Responding to Sexual Assault, 29th November.

[Bitch Flicks] The Rise of Women with Mental Illness in TV Series, 21st November.

[Intergender World Champs] A Woman’s Place Should Be in the White House—And in the Cell, 9th November.

[Daily Life] Why an Australian Woman Felt Compelled to Go Door to Door Campaigning for Hillary Clinton, 7th November.

[Digital Writers’ Festival] Moving Away Part 1: Leaving Australia, 5th November.

[Intergender World Champs] Smack Talker! Daniel Bryan’s Tiresome Vocal Misogyny, 26th October.

[Feminartsy] Am I A Fool to Travel to America?, 19th October.

[SBS On Demand] White Writers Telling Black Stories, 12th October.

[Intergender World Champs] Nia Jax: Not Like Most Girls, 3rd October.

[F is for Feminism] C is for Child-Free by Choice, 29th September.

[Writers Bloc] Ideas: Between a Blog & a Hard Place, 26th September.

[Writers Bloc] Ideas: Hot Take Culture, 5th September.

[SBS Zela] WWE & LGBTQIA Representation, 21st August.

[SBS Zela] The State of Women’s Wrestling, 19th August.

[Feminartsy] Is Celebrity Feminism Helping or Hindering the Movement?, 16th August.

[Daily Life] Why Celebrities Prefer Empowerment to Feminism, 27th July.

[SBS Life] Sometimes It’s Just Easier Being Single, 21st July.

[Feminartsy] Trading in the Beauty Economy, 20th July.

[SBS Zela] Sports Illustrated Deadnaming Caitlyn Jenner Is Not Cool, 1st July.

[Femmezuigiri] Is There a Place for Total Divas in the Women’s Wrestling Renaissance?, 28th June.

[Junkee] This is the Most Devastating & Political Season of Orange is the New Black Yet, 21st June.

[SBS Zela] Why World Wrestling Entertainment Needs a Women’s Money in the Bank Match, 18th June.

[Feminartsy] Practicing Self-Care Through Pop Culture, 8th June.

[Bitch Flicks] Neighbors 2 May Not Be Feminist in Name, But It’s Feminist in Nature, 6th June.

[The Vocal] Beyonce Makes Us Want to Be Better People, 2nd June.

[Calling Spots] Navigating Kayfabe in the Reality Era, Issue 21.

[The Big Smoke] Chyna & the Wrestling of WWE’s Own Demons, 5th May.

[SBS Zela] Can You Be a Feminist & a WWE Wrestling Fan?, 30th April.

[SBS Zela] Joanie “Chyna” Laurer, A Wrestling Pioneer in Life, Finally Gets That Recognition in Death, 27th April.

[The Big Smoke] Women of The People VS. OJ Simpson, 25th April.

[SBS Zela] 10 Women to Watch in Wrestling, 21st April.

[The Big Smoke] Kim Kardashian: Our Modern-Day Monroe, 14th April.

[SBS Zela] How World Wrestling Entertainment Finally Embraced the Women’s Wrestling Revolution, 14th April.

[SBS Zela] A Diva is No Longer the Women’s Version of a Wrestler, 6th April.

[Harlot] Whorephobia & Misogyny in Wrestling: Still Real to Me, Dammit, 25th March.

[Daily Life] Why Feminist Meet-Cutes Are the Best Thing About Twitter, 23rd March.

[The Vocal] The Internet Can Be the Best Place to Find Your Tribe, 17th March.

[Feminartsy] Who Controls the Meaning of Barbie?, 7th March.

[Bitch Flicks] Attachment Mothering in Room, 29th February.

[Harlot] Does the Legends Football League Have a Place in the Women’s Sport Revolution?,  27th February.

[The Vocal] The Kardashians Are Better Than You, 26th February.

[Calling Spots] In Defence of Eva Marie, Issue 20.

[Bitch Flicks] Suffragette: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same, 18th January.

[Cageside Seats] In Defence of WWE’s Injured List, 8th January.

[The Spectacle of Excess] Why Jem & the Holograms Flopped & What WWE Can Learn From It, 8th January.

[Bitch Flicks] Jessica Jones: A Discomforting Yet Real Portrayal of Abuse, 6th January.

2015:

[Junkee] On Taylor Swift, Mean Girls, Feminism & the Bittersweet Year of #SquadGoals, 29th December.

[Calling Spots] BOSS: The Beginning & the End of an Era, Issue 19.

[Bitch Flicks] Meredith Grey’s Woman Problem, 4th December.

[Junkee] How Caitlyn Jenner, The Kardashians & Total Divas Are Making Reality TV Relevant Again, 13th November.

[The Tag Rope] Are Divas Finally Being Given a Chance?, Issue 6.

[Calling Spots] Queer New Day, Issue 18.

[Junkee] Reclaim Australia, The Dress, #LibSpill, Business Fish & Eleven Other Topical Halloween Costumes That Don’t Suck, 27th October.

[Work of Wrestling] In Praise of Armchair Criticism, Podcast Episode 44, 26th October.

[Cageside Seats] Rise Above Pink, 16th October.

[Cageside Seats] WWE Superstars Who’ll Do Better On the Indies, 16th September.

[Spook Magazine] California Love: Straight Outta Compton, Tupac Shakur & Misogynoir, 11th September.

[Junkee] Rachel Hills on Asexuality, The Sex Myth & Why Female Masturbation is Still a Taboo, 31st July.

[Spook Magazine] I Am Cait Might Just Change How We See Reality TV, 29th July.

[Spook Magazine] Australian TV & the Lack of Racial Diversity, 12th June.

[Bitch Flicks] Is Kris Jenner a Bad Mother?, 29th May.

[Bitch Flicks] Bad Mothers Are the Law of Shondaland, 28th May.

[Writer’s Bloc] Writing About Taylor Swift Ruined My Friendship!, 26th May.

[Junkee] Glee Has Finally Reached Its Series Finale, And Even Fans Are Kind Of Glad To See It Go, 8th May.

[Bitch Flicks] Crossroads Was a Dry Run for Grey’s Anatomy, 12th April.

[Junkee] Forget the “Angry Black Woman” Problem; Does Shonda Rhimes Have a Mistress Problem?, 12th March.

[TheVine] How to Make Sure Your Health & Beauty Products Are Cruelty Free, 9th March.

[Bitch Flicks] Cristina Yang as Feminist, 27th February.

[TheVine] Why Do We Insist On Calling Women Girls?, 24th February.

[Writers Bloc] Wrestling with Obsession, 9th February.

[Bitch Flicks] Body Image on Total Divas, 5th February.

[Bitch Flicks] The Choice to Be a Total Diva, 15th January.

[TheVine] When Your Heroes Let You Down Is It Time to Wave Goodbye?, 8th January.

2014:

[Bitch Flicks] Lena Dunham, Slenderman & the Terror of GIRLS, 12th December.

[Junkee] The Musical Wicked is As Much About Feminism As it is About Witches, 4th November.

[Bitch Flicks] She’s Possessed, Baby, Possessed!, 29th October.

[TheVine] Despite the Name, It’s All About the Women on Masters of Sex, 17th October.

[Filmme Fatales] Debauched Disney, Issue #4.

[Bitch Flicks] Morello’s Fractured Relationship with Romance on Orange is the New Black, 20th August.

[Bitch Flicks] I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Feminism!, 12th August.

[Bitch Flicks] Physical & Mental Health on Orange is the New Black, 5th August.

[Bitch Flicks] Leaning In to Grey’s Anatomy, 15th July.

[Bitch Flicks] Enjoyment Isn’t an Item on The To Do List, 26th May.

[Bitch Flicks] Rape, Lies & Gossip on Gossip Girl, 25th April.

[Junkee] Was Oprah’s Reality Series Bad for Lindsay Lohan’s Career?, 23rd April.

[Junkee] Hannah Horvath and Dan Humphrey Are Basically The Same Person”, 20th March.

[Bitch Flicks] The Power of Work/Life Balance in Charmed, 24th February.

[Bitch Flicks] For a Good Time, Call… A Modern Rom Com About Friendship, 27th January.

2013:

[Birdee] Gossip Girl Makes Me Feel Bad About Myself, 23rd October.

[Filmme Fatales] Good Time Girls, Issue #3.

[TheatrePress] Review: Domestic Warfare at Melbourne Fringe, 28th September.

[TheatrePress] Review: MUST Presents Columbine, 1st September.

[TheatrePress] Review: Patricia Cornelius’ Savages, 19th August.

[TheatrePress] Review: A Very Gaga Variety Fundraising Night, 18th July.

[TheVine] Can a Feminist Love Pro Wrestling?, 14th May.

2012:

[TheVine] Wonder Why They Call U Bitch, 5th September.

[TheVine] The Rise of the Hunk, 9th August.

[TheVine] All Dogs Go To Seven, 9th July.

[MamaMia] The Perfect Vagina: Is There Such a Thing?, 3rd May.

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