Revista Íconema, Cultura Contemporánea

Why and How Male-Driven Films Can (and Should) Be Feminist Friendly

Last time, I took to task the male-driven film, Manchester By the Sea https://iconema.com.mx/oscar-winner-bechdel-test-loser-manbabies-by-the-sea/?lang=en for aggrandizing bad male behavior while…

Devi Snively (en)

Oscar Winner/ Bechdel Test Loser: Manbabies by the Sea

It was a week after the Women’s March in January of 2017 when I went to see Manchester by the…

Disseminating

A Rising Star: Does Homo naledi Challenge our Ideas of Human Exceptionalism?

IntroductionWhat makes us human? This fundamental, philosophical question drives our motivation to understand past human behaviour within diverse fields from archaeology and palaeoanthropology to biology, cognitive…

Devi Snively (en)

A Feminist-Friendly Film That Doesn’t Pass the Bechdel Test

A number of critics have denigrated the Bechdel Test and not without good reason. As previously addressed, it’s a funny…

Epiphanies

We are Coyotes

One day at work... Mexico City has several areas with significant economic flux. When there are no people or sales…

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Three myths that feed white supremacism

Following the Buffalo hate massacre, a recent example of a global surge in terrorist attacks by white supremacists, there is…

Epiphanies

Culinary delights

I have been abroad for more than twenty years and when they ask me what I miss the most about…

Epiphanies

Memories of a Barba Azul fichero: Part II

When love comes like this. One is not to blame.Over the years, the few places that had the same focus…

Epiphanies

Memories of a Barba Azul fichero: Part I

A notification on Facebook indicates the upcoming opening of Barba Azul, with no confirmed date yet. More than fifty opinions…

Epiphanies

Of the body and objects, of the self and of the other

Even though the body itself is an evolved ‘organic design’ that has allowed human beings to interact with their environment,…

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The domestication of plants: the human cultural niche in the sustainable relationship with the environment

It is estimated that between 15,000 and 12,000 years ago, humans began to domesticate plants around the world, which led…

Epiphanies

Wars and Migration: The Basque Diaspora Archive

Language Español / Euskera Those of us who are lucky enough to work on the exciting task of telling stories…

Devi Snively (en)

Passes the Bechdel / Fails Feminism: Bridesmaids Revisited

By now I hope we can all agree that just because a film features female characters who speak with one…

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How to kill a mockingbird and, incidentally, eurocentrism

Recently I read an article in a British newspaper about the decision of a Scottish school to cancel from its…

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What spiders can teach us about the way we interact with the material world

A spider sits at the centre of a web. The web that she wove, from strands of silk secreted by…

Epiphanies

Sama Abäj; much more than stones under water

Traditionally, human groups have felt a particular fascination for settling near mountainous enclaves, not only because of the beauty that…

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New uses for sacred places

When we think about religion, one of the first images that comes to mind is that of the temple, an…

Epiphanies

Traces of pain. An encounter with COVID-19

More than a year after the confinement that plagued our realities due to SARS-CoV-2 began, and even without seeing a…

Epiphanies

Soccer: From business to what really matters

A few weeks ago, those of us who have a crush on football (soccer) received the news that Florentino Pérez,…

Devi Snively (en)

How to Watch a Film from a Feminist Gaze

We’ve now explored the meaning of feminism and, in broad terms, what does and doesn’t constitute a feminist-friendly film (https://iconema.com.mx/author/dsnivelyen/?lang=en).…