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Reflections

Languishing on Screen

A couple of months ago an article came out in the New York Times that made its round all over my social media. It was entitled, ‘There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing’. As many of you might be feeling, and as the rate of published articles on AvidBards might demonstrate, the urge and motivation to produce has been in short stock in recent months, and this article suggests a reason as to why that is. Described as the ‘the neglected middle child of mental health’, languishing is ‘a sense of stagnation and emptiness. It feels…

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Reflections

Why I Want to See More Intersectional Queer Representation in Media

Visibility matters. It’s a simple enough concept, one we’ve heard time and time again. And yet, there is still a huge gap in mainstream TV and film media that needs to be filled. While I fully acknowledge that it has taken a long time for LGBTQIA+ stories to make their way to small and big screens, we are now at a point where we need to work harder to normalize intersectional queerness. As such, I expect those in storytelling industries to prioritize underrepresented queer voices, because there is simply no excuse not to make queer people of colour, people with…

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TV Shows

5 Shows I Recently Watched (and Loved)

I’ll cut right to the chase: I’ve been watching a lot of TV shows lately, especially with ongoing lockdown orders in place. As a result, I’ve put together a list of my latest TV recommendations of shows, ranging from teen dramas to Marvel to sci-fi and more!

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Reflections

Three Years of AvidBards: A Year with Covid

That’s three years of AvidBards done and dusted. Every year it takes us by surprise that we’ve managed to keep this going for as long as we have. Coming out of 2020, that feeling was incredibly intensified. And at the end of every year, knowing that our yearly round-up post is going to come up, we dig into the statistics. To say that we were surprised would be an understatement. Statistics Total views in 2020: 16,130 Most views ever in one month: Nov 2020 with 1,894 Top posts of 2020: Casual Racism, Sexism and Homophobia in Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Gentlemen’,…

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Lifestyle

How to Plan for 2021

Changing tune today for today’s post, I want to look at how we even begin thinking about planning for the new year after a year like 2020. Everything we have ever known about planning went out the window this year, and one thing was left clear: No matter how much you plan, life will get its way.  So, how to go about thinking about what we want to accomplish in the new year? I will be the first to admit that I felt utterly lost this year, unsure how to measure my productivity and successes when I was struggling to…

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Reflections

10 Shows That Got Me Through 2020

A list of the shows that, quite literally, got me through 2020.

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