image taken from @petejordiwood instagram Looking back at the past, it seems, at first glance, there are no queer fairy tales. Now, one writer and illustrator has found a queer story that has survived through the test of heteronormative academia to be told once again in modern times. Cornish writer and illustrator Pete Jordi Wood, through searching through over 600 fairy tales in the archives, discovered The Dog and the Sea, a tale about one man who becomes a sailor, goes thr

As we near the beginning of September, schools for all ages are starting to reopen their doors, despite the COVID-19 Pandemic still ravaging the United States. This includes college students returning full-time to campus for the first time in almost six months. But as many college students reacclimate into this social environment, they are deciding to take the social part too literally in the midst of the pandemic. While it is normal for students to socialize and party, COVID

As summer nears its end, and the end of the COVID-19 Pandemic is nowhere in sight, it has been almost impossible to vacation for the safety of yourself and others. However, instead of giving up on the idea of vacationing, some are taking the vacation home to them. Staycations are becoming the hot new thing this summer, having all of the comforts of a vacation, but at a more affordable price. First, if you want to experience a Staycation, the most important thing you can do is

Gillian Rose is a recent Manhattan College graduate who lives in Staten Island. Marquis Pickering Staten Island has been the butt of many jokes. Take, for instance, Pete Davidson describing his thoughts on going back to Staten Island for Thanksgiving; “I know Staten Island isn’t all heroin and racist cops, it also has meth and racist firefighters”. Yet funny as it sounds, unfortunately it is one of the many harsh realities that people on Staten Island know to be true. Staten

As we celebrate Women’s Equality Day on August 26th, especially on the centennial of the signing of the 19th Amendment, we often remember the women, such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who lead the fight to the women’s right to vote. These are the women we immediately think of and associate the movement with, yet there are so many unsung heroes that we often forget about. One heroine whom most people often completely forget about is Miriam Michelson, a promin

On the eve of the annual Romance Writers of America (RWA) convention, RWA has announced the opening of submissions for its first annual Vivian Award. The Vivian Award was established this year to replace the Rita, which was canceled last year as a result if a host of issues that had arisen around voting and judging of the organization’s annual award. The Vivian was named after RWA founder Vivian Stephens, who was one of the most influential editors at Harlequin in the 70s wh

Image taken from Women March 2020 Wikipedia Since the ratification of the 19th Amendment a century ago, women all over the country gained the right to vote; however, that was simply not the end of the fight for women’s equality, instead, merely the beginning. For example, many marginalized groups were unable to vote until years, even decades, later due to loopholes and discrimination. Yet the question remains: What really happened after the ratification of the 19th Amendment

For anyone who reads my articles on Disney’s track record of LGBTQ+ representation in their media, you know that I’m highly skeptical, and sometimes even cynical, when Disney states that they are planning on representing LGBTQ+ characters. There’s their track record of representation of an LGBTQ+ character in Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, and their most recent failure in Pixar’s Onward, it makes me wonder, are they ever going to get it right? But t

Recently there was a bit of a blow up on Twitter when a white author questioned the historical accuracy of an Afro-Latinx author’s upcoming series. Because the questioning author was not aware of travel from Latin America to Europe during the period the books are set, she likened them to historical fantasy. Twitter blow-ups aren’t unusual, but I thought I’d write a post about this one because it hits close to my own heart. Specifically, the use of the phrase “historically ina

The membership of the Romance Writers of America (RWA) have elected a new Board of Directors who will begin serving in September of 2020, right after the organization’s annual convention ends. After a year of upheaval exposing racism and inequalities on the board and within its membership that resulted in the entire board resigning in 2019 and a new “emergency” board being elected in February of this year, this new board hopes to be the sign of a new direction for the organiz

images taken from Buzzfeed While the coronavirus pandemic has put a dry spell on the love life’s of many individuals around the country and the world, not everyone has let their romance fizzle by these unknown times. One couple in NYC has discovered a new way to rekindle romance. Jasmin and Dean Gaskin, like most people, had been cooped up in their homes for the past few months, and have had the constant urge to escape their home with two kids. When it came to their fifth wed

It seems happily ever afters don’t just exist for Noah Reid’s within the TV screen as his character Patrick Brewer in Schitt’s Creek, but in real life as well. Last month, on July 25th, 2020, Noah Reid married his fiancée Clare Stone and now he’s ready to show his wedding photos off to the world. Reid joined the cast of Schitt's Creek as Patrick Brewer during season three where his onscreen romance with Dan Levy's character David Rose culminated in their wedding on the emotio

On August 18, 1920, by a vote of 50-47, Tennessee became the last state needed to ratify the 19th Amendment, finally giving American women the right to vote, moving one step closer to women’s equality in America. A hundred years later, we reflect on Herstory to examine how far we have come since then, and what comes next. However, the story starts well before 1920. Suffragists began their fight for women’s equality in 1848 when they demanded the right to vote during the first

Tomos Roberts, a 26 year-old British poet and filmmaker, created a simple “Princess Bride”-esque fairly tale about life before and after the pandemic as a YouTube video that he read to his younger sister and brother and, like a fairy tale itself, he woke up to find that his “The Great Realisation” had gone viral with over a million and a half views. He had even attracted celebrity fans like Jake Gylenhall, Jennifer Aniston, Kristen Bell and Drew Barrymore. He was approached

These times we’re living in are really hard, and there are only so many kitten and puppy videos I can watch to lift my sprits. So, it was honestly heart-warming to watch this post from Anis Mojgani, whose Twitter bio describes him as the “10th Poet Laureate of Oregon. Black Iranian Southern boy,” about a letter his mother received. He posted, “Yesterday was 54 yrs since my moms & 6 other young Black folks were denied library cards in Hattiesburg MS, Freedom Summer. My brother