I stayed up way too late last night watching events unfold in Ferguson, and doing my best to RT and signal boost ( Read more... )

Clearly I need to step away from the internets and get back to work on the diss. The problem is, when fandom is part of the diss, it's easiy to justify staying on LJ, DW & Twitter all day and calling it "research ( Read more... )

Because this morning, he posted an entry titled "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is."All analogies are flawed, but this is a damn good one ( Read more... )

(I say this because I know several of my friends have recently read and loved A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. Have you read it yet? It's awesome.)

Dear Hollywood: How's That Bigotry Working Out for You?

Until you’re ready to put people who look and act like your audience front and center. Which you aren’t doing. (86% of lead roles go to white males ( Read more... )

What with the King hearings, and that NYT article (trigger warning for rape and victim-blaming like whoa, but the link goes to a petition by change.org asking for an apology) and Cassie being home for the second day in a row with a tummy bug, and the fact that I'm clearly starting to catch it...today has kinda sucked ( Read more... )

I saw a bumper sticker today that said "Uncle Sam Wants You to Speak English." So I swore at him in Latin.

I did a discussion section for Comic Art that started with this image from an early adventure/aviation comic, then moved to ratcreature's scans of Wizard's "How to draw comics," on drawing women in (superhero) comics, and then vito-excalibur's amazing redrawings of ( Read more... )

I'm a fan of The Children's Place on FB. They have a store nearby, and we've been dressing Cassie in clothes from there since she was a baby. It's also my mom's favorite store to buy her clothes.

The fan page on Facebook for The Children's Place posted a link to a Festival sponsored by them, Ford, and People en Español tonight, first in English ( Read more... )

This morning, Cassie discovered one of the DVD cases of Avatar that a former student had lent me. She asked about it, and I gave her a sketch of the plot of the series, and asked if she wanted to watch with me. She asked if it was scary (she's super sensitive to any narrative tension right now. The stepsisters tearing Cinderella's dress off her ( Read more... )

I've been spending a lot of time tonight chasing down and reading up on the reverberations of eBear's post on cultural appropriation. (not linking; I figure you either already know of what I speak, or, if you don't, you can ask for directions.) As an academic working in postcolonial theory, I'm intensely interested; as a white woman, I don't have ( Read more... )

There have been a whole lot of things going on around and in my head for a couple of weeks which have been attempting to combine to form some sort of coherent whole, and I think they might be ready to come out. We'll see...

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the filming of Robin Di Angelo's workshop. It was the same workshop that had inspired ( Read more... )