Those of you who know me know that I love the Hunger Games books and that my favorite characters are all the female tributes. (Yes, all of them. Yes, even her. Yes, I've heard that before, and I'd like to see your evidence that you or any male person would behave better-- whatever your definition of better might be--in her situation.) And you ( Read more... )

I've never been a sports fan, so I never paid that much attention to sports team logos and mascots. I became aware at some point that naming sports teams "the Indians" or vaguely Native American/American Indian-associated things like "the Chiefs" or "the Braves" was a thing. I never liked the thing, and I agreed that those Native-themed team ( Read more... )

Y'all, the concerns expressed in this post summarize a lot of the reasons why I'm having mixed feelings about the casting issues for Catching Fire. When the people in charge of casting The Hunger Games decided to make Katniss white, they opened the floodgates for a lot more skeezy racial issues than just the most obvious one-- issues that they ( Read more... )

I have fan bracelets finished for Annie and Katniss. I started one for Rue, but my eyes decided they'd had enough for the day, so I'm planning to finish that one this coming week. That's the good news ( Read more... )

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1) DC treated Alan Moore quite shabbily, and the people in charge should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to exploit his work, in light of that history ( Read more... )

Trigger warnings all over the place! Attempted murder, intimate partner violence, sexual coercion of people in vulnerable positions, attempts to shaming/guilting women into disliked sexual acts, racism and classism of an extraordinarily snotty kind, WON'T SOME WOMAN PLEASE THINK OF THE MENZ?1!, violence against women, and OH YEAH THAT ATTEMPTED ( Read more... )

Read this article about Melungeons with the links to short articles on other tri-racial isolate populations in the South. It should clear up a few misconceptions, like the idea that there are no people of color in Appalachia and the idea that a multi-racial man who married a blonde, blue-eyed white woman couldn't possibly have one dark-haired, ( Read more... )

Yet another fandom has recently been rocked by shocking news of character blackness: Click for evidence of how far we as a society have not come The linked post collects evidence of racefail, plus some gayfail in case the skeevy race issues weren't disappointing enough.

Two significant characters in The Hunger Games are obviously described as ( Read more... )

Two reports via Shakesville:

Topeka, Kansas repeals law against domestic violence "It's costing victims: there have been 35 reported incidents of domestic battery and/or assault since September and eighteen people have been released without charges; none of these cases are being pursued."

Tennessee voter ID law disenfranchises woman who has ( Read more... )