Posted by Cila Warncke London is about to have its first dalliance with a North American-style free newspaper in the form of Snipe and — I’m pleased to say — yours truly will be writing a media column for the bi-weekly publication. Check out their pre-release website. Then look for the launch issue, out 15… [Read more…]
January 5, 2010
Posted by Cila Warncke According to the worthy Ziem, man becomes ambitious as soon as he becomes impotent. It’s pretty much all one to me whether I am impotent or not [but] I’m damned if that’s going to drive me to ambition. — Vincent Van Gogh There are two kinds of ambition. The obvious, socially-approved… [Read more…]
August 20, 2009
Posted by Cila Warncke I wrote this feature on Britney’s conservatorship titled Britney Spears, Daddy’s Little Girl? for UK feminist blog The F-Word. When Britney’s life went into a flat spin two years ago, the tabloid knives came out, not just for her, but also for ‘stage mom’ Lynne. Anytime anything goes wrong with a… [Read more…]
July 2, 2009
Posted by Cila Warncke Tom Wolfe’s famous new journalism is nothing but an abdication of the traditional journalistic ideal of objectivity. What makes him so beloved of white, middle-class, status-quo lovers is that he presents the ‘freaks’ of society exactly as they wish to see them. Peering out from his WASP bubble he offers no… [Read more…]
April 30, 2009
Posted by Cila Warncke I find it very difficult to take seriously an alleged nationwide emergency that I find out about by reading the Guardian website. Surely if swine flu or influenza porcina as the locals call it, were a hovering shadow of death across the fair land of Mexico someone would have thought to… [Read more…]
February 11, 2009
Originally published in The Daily Pennsylvanian, Autumn 2000 Hirsute masses camped around Washington, D.C.’s Reflecting Pool. Stormy-faced libbers incinerating lingerie. Stoic figures reeling under the barrage of fire hoses. And perhaps the most horrific, memorable image of all: stunned Kent State students staring at their compatriots’ bodies on a day that will live in infamy.… [Read more…]
February 11, 2009
Originally published in The Daily Pennsylvanian, Autumn 2000 Columbine. I remember the day that name became a national byword, much in the same way I remember the day Princess Diana died or the way those slightly older than I remember the Challenger disaster. They didn’t know, at first, how many were dead; estimates ran up… [Read more…]
February 10, 2009
I’m very proud to be contributing to Agendered, a new online-feminist magazine aimed at the Oxford Unversity student community. My first two articles are up, one on women writers and the other on my perpetual bugbear – the shittiness of women’s magazines. Lots of other great features too… read it!
October 29, 2008
In 1999 I took issue with Britney Spears. I didn’t like …Baby One More Time and I wrote a column to say so. Some of my views have changed (I like Britney, love the record) and some haven’t (I still object to self-objectification for male titillation). Read on. Once upon a time girls hummed along… [Read more…]
October 29, 2008
Thanks to Google I’ve just stumbled across a column I wrote for the Daily Pennsylvanian some eight years ago. I was their foreign correspondent for a term, while studying at London’s King’s College. An excruciating tutorial there formed the basis for this column. All I could think was that I’ll never be able to open… [Read more…]
May 9, 2010
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