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Madison Farkas

Madison Farkas is a graduate of Mount Royal University’s journalism program and the content manager for over 100 community magazines across Canada. Her work has appeared on CBC, Global News Calgary, Avenue Magazine and the Calgary Journal. She has a background in local investigative journalism, and is a yoga lover, amateur chef and sometimes painter. She enjoys overanalyzing TV shows, and her greatest pain is that she can’t read and write at the same time.

Fingersmith: Dickens, but with lesbians and good pacing

By Madison Farkas • Publications

I came to Sarah Waters’ 2002 historical crime thriller Fingersmith having already seen Park Chan-wook’s South Korean film adaptation The Handmaiden, which is (loosely) based on the book. While the …
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1 year ago

No Homo Sapiens: The Terrifying Truth of Male Fragility

By Madison Farkas • Essay

I love my male friends to pieces, but their group dynamics have been fascinating to observe over the years. If there’s anything I’ve found, it’s that when it comes to threats against their masculinity, straight cisgender men are so delicate it would be hilarious if it weren’t so horrifying.
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