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I'm supposed to be concentrating solely on my dissertation at the moment (also about women in comics though!) but I needed to brain dump/rant after a few articles ran in the last couple of weeks that made me twitch. There was Joe Peacock deciding that hot people women girls couldn't be real geeks; the article in the LA Times telling us "women in ( Read more... )

Evie Nagy on Tarpé Mills & Miss Fury
Heroine Chic


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So after my recent argument with Mark Millar on Twitter about the lack of female guests at Kapow which was eventually resolved (there are small press women guests that they didn't think needed publicised - they do!) and led to a huge thing where people like Paul Cornell are calling for panel parity at comic cons, I headed along to the comics strand ( Read more... )

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I see this come up in comments on open thread Fridays and stuff, but can we collect a list of comics that don't completely fail at dealing with anyone who isn't an able straight cis white man in this post? Bonus points if DC didn't publish it. Fuck those guys. Webcomics count ( Read more... )

Can I post twice in a row? Eep, I feel shifty ( Read more... )

I've been devoting more time recently to trying to break into journalism - difficult! - and realised it had been ages since I'd last written an opinion piece rather than reviews or interviews. I'd been meaning to write about regressive storytelling with respect to the reboot at DC but between my first draft and today's finished piece, my opinion ( Read more... )

This piece is actually inspired by the conversations in this community about the Catwoman trailer for Arkham City. I realised that my own love of Catwoman was overshadowing any critical thoughts I might have about a sexualised character that very much exists within the confines of the male gaze. Were she a real person, then fair enough, or even if ( Read more... )

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