Panel Description: Some works of shoujo anime or manga (works which are marketed to females 10 to 18 years old) incorporate fairy tales. What are your favorite anime or manga that use fairy tales, either Western or Japanese? Which ones take fairy tales and play with them to achieve narrative brilliance? Works such as Revolutionary Girl Utena, ( Read more... )

Panel Description: Race and class are two identities that exist in tandem, one never really trumping the other. What are the ways they intersect, diverge, conflict? What happens when our internal race/class state differs from an external race/class assignment-and what factors go into forming internal/external states in the first place? This panel ( Read more... )

Panel Description: Fifteen years ago, the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena was released into the wild. Utena rapidly became the poster child for feminist anime fans in the U.S., a role that she continues to play today. This anime asks the same basic question posed by Joanna Russ's The Female Man: Do you want to be a girl or do you want to be ( Read more... )

The General Assembly has become a familiar practice since the growth of Occupy Wall Street. Anarchistic and radically democratic organizing processes have a much longer history, though, including the Zapatistas, the Spanish student movement, and movements in the history of feminism. For WisCon members, a familiar feeling might have bubbled up in ( Read more... )

Panel Title: A Princess With a Sword Is Still a Princess: Modern Adaptations of Fairy Tales ( Read more... )

So for WisCon, I'm going to be on this panel about fairy tales in shoujo manga & anime.

In an effort to not give into the feelings of, "OMG I SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE ON PANELS, I SHOULD TAKE MYSELF OFF IMMEDIATELY," I'm trying to prepare instead!

Here is the description of the panel:

Some works of shoujo anime or manga (works which are ( Read more... )

Way back in June, when WisCon 35 was still fresh, we had a conversation called WisCon 36 Anime/Manga Programming Idea-Generation Fest. I'd like to pick up some of the ideas we had there, and solidify them into panel descriptions ( Read more... )

Let’s talk about what we would like to see at WisCon 36 for anime/manga programming. Post any thoughts you have, however semi-formed. We can mold them together and form mechas great panels. At WisCon, anyone can suggest panel ideas: People who run the convention, authors, attendees, or people who have never attended WisCon and never will. Thus: ( Read more... )