Weekend Reading List: Movies, Mockingjays, and Metroid
Sammus is a New York-based rapper who is trying to make a Metroid-inspired album while being all badass and defying both gaming and hip hop gender norms. You should check out her kickstarter.
Ever the purveyor of 90s nostalgia, Buzzfeed’s got a roundup of Daria’s best observations. Like you need a reason to love that wonderful snark-machine more.
Have you watched Standard Action? You should watch Standard Action. It’s an RPG-themed webseries that got funding for a third season, so catch up now! Plus you get to look at beautiful Vancouver forests.
Evan Rachel Wood got mad when a scene of her receiving oral sex got cut from her upcoming movie and, as the Province reports, she gave a pretty great Twitter takedown of the Motion Picture Association of America. If you’re interested in learning more about the sexism and homophobia that plagues movie ratings, I highly recommend the documentary This Film is Not Yet Rated.
Want to read about the summer a queer teen of colour went to an all-white, Christian, outdoors camp? Want to read about it in comic form, with lush, Miriam Katin-esque coloured pencil drawings? Then As the Crow Flies is for you!
