Dykes to Watch Out For

and her neighbours David and Suzie McBride were faced with severe aftermath of Hurricane Hazel, and how they worked together to get to safety. As the storm gets worse the children must think quickly and wisely. Soon the phones go dead, the power goes out, and they lose all contact with the outside world. Before the children know it, freezing water is flooding their house, and their neighbourhood is being destroyed right before their eyes. Although Safe As Houses features young children, the…

Much of the credit for that can go to Alison Bechdel, an American cartoonist who invented the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in films. It first appeared in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. Bechdel credited the idea to a friend, Liz Wallace, to the writings of Virginia Woolf. The Bechdel test asks “whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement…

unprofessional would this look? But if we kept the idea of post-modernism maybe it would work. But without any doubt my inquiry of time meant being timeless; I drew this picture of a watch without any numbers or hands just so I can make connections to my thinking of time being timeless. When I went to the dykes in Richmond I took out my notepad and sketched the beautiful sunset and thought this is what time is no one telling you a certain time, you made your own investigation of what time was. I…

researched on LGBT youth discrimination happening in school reports that “Over 30 percent of all reported teen suicides each year are committed by gay and lesbian youth”. It all starts from school. In school, LGBT youth is called “faggot”, “queer” or “dyke”. Students use gay as to describe something stupid. I can’t even imagine how destructive and hurtful this word can be and certainly it is leading to lower self-confidence in LGBT youth. There are several stories of gay student being harassed…

especially in the form of death, is impossible to wholly understand losing my Amma challenged “…the fundamental conditions that sustain [my] actual lived experience, undercutting [my] broad sense of meaning and coherence” (Neimeyer, Burke, Mackay & Van-Dyke, 2010, p.74). More simply put, my personal integrity and identity were shaken, penetrating the core of my being with fears, questions, guilt, and…

culture in Canada, there are many others hidden in plain sight throughout the book. The one, aside from culture, that seems the most prominent is gender. As he weaves in and out of different narratives, it seems obvious that King has something to say about gender; more specifically women. And yet, while he seems keen on bringing out the topic of gender it is almost as if he’s contradicting himself with his characterization. With such prominent characters in that of Alberta, Latisha, Babo, and…

cohesive group. It harms no one when they are thrown a good complement offering some emotional support every now and then. There scene where Torrance goes to Missy’s house after being judged for her appearances is a good example of a person helping out an apprehensive member. Torrance took the extra step to follow Missy home, to persuade her to join the squad. After listening to what the Torrance had to offer with being a member of the team, Missy agreed to join the squad. Torrance…

he'd never before contemplated, the offer of joining him in his spree, not, as she may have thought, as a partner, but to Pete, as a witness. A live human being, to be there as he raped and tortured his victims before he ended their lives, someone to watch as he perpetrated his acts, and caused them to beg, cry and crawl, and scream for mercy. Sure, Pete's acts received attention on the evening news, but no-one knew it was he…

There are few things I know for certain in this world. The sky is blue, everybody dies eventually, and I am gay. My parents were way more accepting of it than I expected. After spending nearly half my life in the closet, I let it slip out one night. Bowling, of all things. You have to understand— I’m the world’s worst bowler. I can’t throw the ball down the middle of the lane to save my life. And so, after yet another toss into the gutter, I turned around and announced to my parents that…

means of protest and a riot used for the protection and fight for people’s human rights, in North American culture, has turned into a celebration. The people who are present range from “visitors to pride parades line the streets to cheer drag queens, dykes on bikes, leather bears, buff boys, marching girls, gay parents with their kids, gay and lesbian school children and many more” (Johnson 2005 p.1). Johnson gives the descriptions of only some people who communicate…