Several pictures of a young woman dressed in trendy, bright, and patterned clothing flash across the screen. Above them is a caption: “me before I stopped dressing for the male gaze”. New pictures appear, this time the clothing is earth-toned, less fitted, and softer. A new caption: “me when I started dressing for the female…

In Ira Levin’s novel The Stepford Wives, and its many adaptations, Joanna Eberhart, a housewife living in Connecticut discovers a dark secret about the other wives in the neighborhood: the women are being replaced by robots built by their husbands. The novel has been described as a “feminist horror” exploring themes of submission and dominance,…

   At that moment I began to write. The weekend grew upon its moments like a tidal wave.  I did quite understand it at its inception per se. Nor appreciate the beautiful manner in which it unfolded, until the moment. The moment the band started to play.  For that was the unifying catalyst, a Saturday…