January 2011
33 posts
Ladies Making Comics: Poll of Social... →
ladiesmakingcomics:
I’ve been going back and forth about this all month, and I feel like the only way to address it is to get some opinions from the audience.
I’ve been at this blog for almost three months now. In that time, I have profiled 11 women, 10.5 of them have been white (Marjorie Liu being the half-Asian)….
Girl convicted after making false rape allegation →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
Decision to prosecute 16-year-old, 15 at the time of the alleged rape, is criticised by anti-rape campaigners
The headline makes the story sound different than it is. I’m not really clear on what is supposed to have happened or what UK law is. Sounds like the courts don’t really define “consent” the way that we do over here. The article is really...
She even burnt the cookies: Young Justice/"Welcome...
dcwomenkickingass:
The first regular episode of Young Justice premiered last night and it was the first episode to feature the female member of the team, Miss Martian. So how was it?
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I hate to talk about a show that I didn’t watch myself and I will be ultimately forced to accept whatever people who own televisions say but: With regards to the character’s mind-reading...
A Catwoman
evandahm:
oh no this is becoming a Thing
beegirl
calicocomics:
this is a comic i started around this time last year. i stopped working on it because i was gunshy about doing online comics (but now i love ‘em, obvs). i might pick it up again after i finish the other 9 projects i have going on.
Oh gosh, I am in such favor of more Bee Girl! But then the promise of these “nine other projects” is enticing as well. The bottom line...
“While we’re at it, can we stop trivializing decency in discourse by labeling it...”
– Evolution, rape, ovulation, and how to get your opinions labeled “Science.” | Holly, The Pervocracy
THANK YOU for so perfectly articulating why the current use of the phrase “politically correct” drives my ass up the fucking wall!
(via feministlibrarian)
like i said yesterday, the entire concept...
Evan Dahm: Teaching a place →
evandahm:
I’ve mentioned before (and we went on at some length about it on the NEWW 2010 Comics and Worldbuilding panel) that how an invented setting is conveyed is every bit as important as how well it is constructed: In worldbuilding for narrative media (as opposed to for its own sake), the World is the…
