Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Speculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

First Couple of Rows Might Get Glittered

First Couple of Rows Might Get Glittered. A review of Buffy The Vampire Slayer the Musical: Once More With Feeling at The Theatre on King in Peterborough, Ontario. Produced by Eryn Lidster, directed by Samantha Mansfield. By Derek Newman-Stille. I fell in love with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Once More With Feeling” when I was doing my undergraduate degree....

February 20, 2017

Psychiatric Survivor Superhero

A review of Jeff Lemire’s Moon Knight Vol 1: Lunatic (Marvel, 2016) By Derek Newman-Stille Writing about mental illness tends to be challenging and most authors tend to reify disempowering tropes of mental illness, projecting people with psychiatric disabilities as villainous, problematic, dangerous, and incompetent. Jeff Lemire’s 2016 rewrite of Moon Knight challenges some of the assumptions about mental...

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First Couple of Rows Might Get Glittered

Psychiatric Survivor Superhero