Tamara MC’s “The Night Sinéad O’Connor Found Me in a Convertible”
This summer, I am running a series of essays about Sinéad O’Connor to celebrate the publication of our book: Nothing Compares to You: What Sinéad O’Connor Means to Us. Our […]
Training Bras to Hot Flashes: Judy Blume’s Timeless Wisdom on Faith and Growing Up
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Growing up as a Muslim-Jewish girl in an interfaith family in the 1980s, I felt like an outsider in a world that […]
Women Talking: When Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Part
Originally a novel written by Miriam Toews, the film Women Talking, directed by Sarah Polley, won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2023 Academy Awards. (Photo: Michael Gibson/Orion Pictures) Want to listen […]
I Was Raised in a Cult. Like the Duggar Family, We Had Dark Secrets
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Many are stunned after watching Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, a docuseries about the famously growing Duggar family, on Amazon Prime. How could this have […]
FILM / Val is part film. Part memoir. Part art installation. / Tamara MC
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Val Kilmer’s 2021 documentary directed and produced by Leo Scott and Ting Poo fuses 1000s of hours of personal footage—videotapes and film […]
I Hate Dudes Like Bill in The Chair – Guest Post
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! By Tamara MC Dr. Tamara MC is an Applied Linguist and Middle Eastern Studies scholar. She researches and writes about women and […]