The group stages of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are now over. (If, like me, you had only the vaguest notion of what that means, 32 teams from around the world played each other…Continue Reading
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Why Virtue Signaling about #Qatar2022 Won’t Bring Lasting Change
The World Cup in Qatar It’s four days until kickoff for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, the first to be held in the Middle East, the first to happen in November (and not…Continue Reading
Stop Saying There Were No Black People in Medieval Europe
I’m a woman with a doctorate who also happens to love popular culture. Most of the time cinema or television is where my mind goes to rest, regroup and rejuvenate. Sometimes, like last week, the…Continue Reading