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The authors find that women, as a group, experienced gender-based disadvantage across the key creative roles of opera production, but particularly in the artistic leadership roles of conductor and director. The authors also find that women’s exclusion in the field is being further perpetuated by the sector’s non-standard and overlapping employment structures, which impacts women … Read moreUnequal opera-tunities: gender inequality and non-standard work in US opera production

Fraktur has its origins in folk art traditions from Alsace, Switzerland, and the Rhineland, but in America it became more colorful, elaborate, and freehand, and far more apt to dominate the script it sought to embellish. The genre’s golden age was the period between 1790 and 1830 — a time when the American religious context … Read moreFraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

(Secretly Canadian) If there’s one constant in Cherry Glazerr’s vigorous alt-rock through the years, it’s Clementine Creevy never sounding like she needs to apologize. To describe it in simpler terms: her musical project oozes raw power. But something’s changed in Creevy’s fifth album. While there are raucous barnburners like Touched You With My Chaos and … Read moreMusic Review: I Don't Want You Anymore – Cherry Glazerr

In the 1930s, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, mystic and founder of the multidisciplinary Eranos forum, began compiling a diverse visual archive that would allow dreamers to cross-reference their visions with the entirety of cultural history. Frederika Tevebring explores this grandiose undertaking and its effect on the archivist, as images from the collection began to blur with her … Read moreImages from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive

As children, many of us sat around the dinner table or a crackling campfire, listening to our parents or friends tell us the creepiest stories. We’d surreptitiously glance over our shoulders, ready to run at the slightest creak of a twig or flutter of a curtain. The characters in these stories haunted us. They brought … Read more10 Chilling Stories That Might Just Keep You Up at Night

The mothers in the sample tend to construct themselves in two main ways, as (1) valuable mothers (capable, tireless, caring mothers who are key figures in their children’s lives) and (2) competent professionals. These subjectivities are parasitic on gendered and neoliberal ideals but allow the mothers to undermine neoliberal capitalist work arrangements that were incongruent … Read more“I felt sad then, I feel free now”: a case for examining the constructive resistance of opted-out mothers

Desprez’s 121 engravings illustrate garbs supposedly found the world over in 1562, worn by humans and monsters alike. source

John Steinbeck on the art of receiving and the true meaning of gratitude.  source

The internet is full of “facts” that will just plain blow your mind, and with the rise of social media, we have them at our fingertips more and more. However, often, with things like TikTok or Vine, we only get a tiny glimpse, and the healthy skeptic in us wonders just how much of what … Read more10 Unbelievable Sound Facts with a Ring of Truth

This study introduces five vignettes of “mixed race” women, gathered from a wider study of 27 PhDs and early career researchers in UK higher education. The paper employs Yuval-Davis’ framework of belonging and bell hooks’ approach to chosen versus forced marginality to create a conceptual framework based on fluid agency and empowerment, recognising belonging as … Read more“I’m not white”: counter-stories from “mixed race” women navigating PhDs