Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alien Gender
This article was originally posted at Feminist Borg. One of the areas in which the male-dominated nature of the media often shows through with dazzling clarity is in the gender […]
This article was originally posted at Feminist Borg. One of the areas in which the male-dominated nature of the media often shows through with dazzling clarity is in the gender […]
Today I’m going to return to the old writing principle of showing, not telling. I’ve previously expressed skepticism about the necessity of always showing. Telling can and does play an […]
This article was originally posted at Feminist Borg. They look like us, but they are not us. They have powers we don’t understand. They don’t trust us. We don’t trust […]
When Pacific Rim came out, many sources praised it for its progressive representation: The presence of non-American, non-white characters in heroic roles and, in particular, Mako Mori, a Japanese woman, […]
Doad says that his impulse-buy threshold is about $2.50. It got free reign during the Steam fall sale, and we’ve had a chance to peruse some of the notable new […]
I finally saw Pacific Rim and, alas, it’s not a major triumph for women’s representation by any means. But it did make me come up with a new theory relating […]
(This article was originally posted on Feminist Borg.) You may have seen this comic that was floating around Tumblr a few months ago. I haven’t been able to locate the […]
Doad and I were lucky enough to see Janelle Monáe last night. If you aren’t already listening to Janelle Monáe (Cindi Mayweather, the ArchAndroid, Electric Lady #1, Android #57821, etc), […]
So we’re five weeks in and by now we can all agree that Agents of SHIELD is okay. It’s not really bad, per se, but it feels very, very safe, […]