- Disney princesses with beards. It’s pretty self-explanatory. [Buzzfeed]
- This isn’t strictly about SF/F, but everyone should watch this conversation between the legendary Melissa Harris Perry and bell hooks. They do talk about black women’s representation in film, though, so it’s not totally off topic. [Bitch]
- Were you in Chicago yesterday? Did you go to the Star Wars Episode VII casting call? [Hollywood Reporter]
- Kotaku’s got the inside scoop on the upcoming Warcraft movie, and the concept art looks amazing.
- I’m a huge sucker for biomimicry design, and even though these cocktail accessories are admittedly kind of useless, they’re still pretty and I want them. [MIT Media Relations]
- My friend E. K. Chan wrote some powerful, eerie fiction, and you should give it a look. [The McGill Daily]
- The Frisky has a roundup of the best movies about female relationships. How many have you seen?
- Over at Planet Quirk, I wrote a blog post about literary-themed origami in honour of Origami Day. Now there’s no excuse for making the same boring crane over and over again.
- Want a Neil Gaiman-penned short film about a girl who can fly? Of course you do. [Project Imaginat10n]
- I haven’t even begun to make a dent in the new issue of Ada, a journal of gender, new media, and technology, but its theme is “Science Fiction and the Feminist Present” and it starts with the Donna Haraway quote “the boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.” So you know it’s going to be good.
- “What Does it Mean that Most Children’s Books are Still About White Boys?” asks the Huffington Post. Nothing good, is the answer.
- The Hairpin has a great interview with Hyperbole and a Half blogger Allie Brosh. She talks about her book, her depression, and her dogs.
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