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Rest In Peace The Mary Sue
I absolutely hate the entire concept of Mary Sue, which I regard as an incredibly sexist device for trying to slam female writers of fan or published fiction, and very ignorant when applied to...
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Diversity Writings That Still Echo
Under a bit of a time crunch today, so I am offering up some links of writing I have found good and interesting on diversity and discrimination that came out earlier this year or previously. People of...
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Diversity Issues Are An On-going Campaign
Normally after I’d done a mini-rant on how Wonder Woman is getting marginalized and washed down, I wouldn’t plop down another group of diversity writing links so soon after, but there’s been a lot...
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Gamesplayers Are A Mighty Wave
Once upon a time, a very angry man teamed up with some anti-feminist frothy guys to get revenge on his game-designer ex-girlfriend. They claimed that she had sex with a game reviewer in return for...
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A Link to a Cool Magazine Issue with some Diversity Links (Dumping Days)
Back last summer, Lightspeed Magazine did a very cool issue of the magazine called “Women Destroy Science Fiction!” featuring stories from women SF writers and a lot of articles about women in science...
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Really Interesting Female Directors
I’m in the soup, but this weekend, I thought this article by Julie Zeilinger for Identities.Mic on female directors of color who are doing and will be doing interesting work was worth bringing to...
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Women in Film, Part 1 — 2014 Review
It’s time again for Women In Film, where we look at blockbusters, action films of all types and big buzz films to see how actresses are doing in terms of prominence, box office moolah, and improving...
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Women In Film, Part 2 — 2015 Analysis
In this Part 2 of Women in Film, we are moving on from 2014 to our new year 2015. 2015 is going to be the year of big returning franchises. Some of the biggest of the biggest are set to hit from now in...
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Stick Aliens Drink Soda
It’s been awhile since I did a post on the trend in advertising campaigns to not just photoshop women in ads into skinny forms, but to literally make them physically alien and insectoid in their...
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Women In Film Take the Stage – Part 1, 2015 Review
It’s time (finally!) for Women in Film, where we take a look at the state of women actors in tackling the serious Hollywood box office – the “summer” blockbusters, tent pole special effects movies,...
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Women in Film, 2015-2016, Part 2 – 2016 Analysis
Note to self: Get film analyses done before the chaotic month of May, especially as the “summer” season now officially starts in mid-March. Actually, with new strategies in releasing animated and...
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I Got Quoted in Academia This Year
Back in 2013, I did a blog post about women SFF authors, “Reality and the Welcome Sign — Gender and SFFH,” in reference to Tor UK’s editorial director Julie Crisp’s blog post at the time about how Tor...
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The New World
Filed under: Life, Women Tagged: civil rights, The Resistance, women's civil rights, Women's March on D.C.
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Jim C. Hines Returns to Modeling
Fantasy author Jim C. Hines took a break from working on his new series to do one of his famous here’s the ridiculous sexist poses they put women figures in on SFF covers for no reason cover poses....
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Women in Film – Part 1: 2016 Review
It’s time to get back into the topic I’ve been trying to do annually for a few years now on how female actresses are doing in box office power in the big budget action, SFF, thriller, action comedies...
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Women in Film – Part 2 – 2017 Analysis
So if women built on momentum in 2016, what is happening this year? A fair amount, given that the “summer blockbuster” season for 2017 started in early March with Fox’s Marvel X-Men entry Logan and...
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I Can’t Even
So I was going to write about some books, really I was, and I will soon, but in the meantime (not counting all the really nasty horrors going about the planet,) we had another one of those incidents....
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Wonder Woman Sails Into Shiny Waters
So obviously a lot has been going on in recent months all about, but I did manage to go see the long awaited and much speculated about Wonder Woman movie, starring Gal Gadot. I enjoyed it overall and...
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Superheroes R Us
So also in the realm of superheroes, the comics side of Marvel has been watching the collapse of its sales model, while dealing with a cross-over disaster that had a far right leaning writer making...
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We Will Miss You Ursula Le Guin
So we got the sad news that author Ursula Le Guin passed away at the age of 88. Le Guin was the only woman and the last of the SF Lions, the authors considered the most monumental, seminal voices in...
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