Tag Archives: Adrienne Keene
- The Mary Sue asks what Star Trek even means as a franchise in its current, depoliticized state, and what it would take to make the show groundbreaking again.
- The Toast on Ghostbusters 2016, science fictional diversity, and how only a certain type of women is seeing notable advances.
- I’m also really into how the Toast has been riffing on the tired “is it feminist?” question, now asking “is It! (the Living Colossus) feminist?”
- Native Appropriation’s Adrienne Keene is getting a lot of coverage for her critique of JK Rowling’s North American magic, as the CBC continues to report.
- Autostraddle just celebrated their seventh birthday (happy birthday!) and is doing it with these really great retrospective pieces. Here’s the top seven lesbian, bisexual, and queer tv shows of the last seven years, but you should go poke around the site. They’ve got lots of good stuff, like lists of all the queer women on television who have died, and who have lived happily ever after (predictably, a much shorter list).
- “Queer Indigenous rapper Dio Ganhdih shared extraterrestrial video for ‘Pussy Vortex‘” [The Fader]
- The Xena reboot will feature an openly gay warrior princess! [Out magazine]
- “The witchy feminism of modern music videos.” Beyoncé, and Azealia Banks, and FKA twigs, oh my! [Bitch]
- There’s going to be a new Feminist Frequency show! It’ll be called Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History and it’s funding right now!
- The town of Vardø, Norway, unveiled a monument in memory of the 91 people killed for witchcraft. [The Daily Beast]
- Want to see a caricature that combines Donald Trump and Attack on Titan? You’re welcome. [Otaku USA]
- Writer Mey Rude is the one responsible for Autostraddle’s great witchy content, and here she is on Bitch‘s podcast talking about sorcery, cultural appropriation, and the best witches in pop culture.
Tagged Adrienne Keene, Anita Sarkeesian, Attack on Titan, Autostraddle, Azealia Banks, Beyoncé, Bitch, Bitch Media, CBC, Dio Ganhdih, Donald Trump, Feminist Frequency, FKA twigs, Ghostbusters, Harry Potter, It! The Living Colossus, JK Rowling, Mey Rude, Native Appropriations, Ordinary Women, OtakuUSA, Out magazine, Star Trek, The Daily Beast, The Fader, The Mary Sue, The Toast, Vardø, Xena, Xena Warrior Princess
- Oh look the Hollywood remake of Ghost in the Shell cast an actual Asian actor. Still whitewashed as all get out though. Still mad about it. [Angry Asian Man]
- The new all-lady Ghostbusters remake has been contentious right from the start, and while a lot of the criticism amounts to garden variety manchildren blubbering about cooties, Racialicious has some very valid concerns about Leslie Jones’s character, who is the only woman of colour, and the only Ghostbuster without a scientific background.
- A musical ode to the clitoris that you didn’t know you wanted, but now must see. [Refinery29]
- The New York Public Library, an institution that clearly knows what the people want, has a companion reading and resource list for the film The Witch.
- “Witch, queen, mom: fairytale lessons for surviving borderline parents.” [The Establishment]
- Bitch has a great roundup of magical girl zines, and I’m not just saying that because I stumbled across the first one on the list, Queer Sailor Moon Fan Fiction Saved My Life, while in a doctor’s office waiting room (but also I kind of am).
- Nola and the Clones is an independent Irish film about a young homeless sex worker. All the men Nola encounters bear a striking resemblance, and it’s that sort of magic realism that lends itself well to a movie that looks truly unique (and is available in its entirety online).
- Janelle Monáe will be co-starring in a movie about the women behind the American space program! Omg omg omg! [io9]
- “International Women’s Day: why women can thrive in sci-fi.” [BBC]
- I really wanted to give JK Rowling the benefit of the doubt when it came to her interpretation of North American magic, but as Adrienne Keene of Native Appropriations lays out thoroughly, she really missed the mark. The Mary Sue, quoting Keene, is similarly unimpressed.
Tagged Adrienne Keene, Angry Asian Man, Bitch, Ghost in the Shell, Ghostbusters, Harry Potter, io9, Janelle Monáe, JK Rowling, NASA, Native Appropriations, Nola and the Clones, Queer Sailor Moon Fan Fiction Saved My Life, Racialicious, Refinery29, the Establishment, The Mary Sue, The New York Public Library, The Witch
- I hadn’t visited Adrienne Keene’s Native Appropriations in a while, so I was really pleased to stumble upon her letter to JK Rowling, where she expresses concern about the upcoming American wizarding school and the inclusion of indigenous magics.
- 13 homoerotic horror films! [Out]
- Bitch also delves into the queerness of horror films, going over some of the heavy hitters like Rebecca and The Haunting, and also the long, long list of lesbian-tinged vampire flicks.
- “The feminist power of female ghosts.” [Bitch]
- Jezebel’s Kitchenette section does these great illustrated cocktail recipes, and the two most recent are the Dark Incantation and the Graveyard Tryst.
- Over at Quirk, I put together some book recommendations for Jem and her Holograms, you know, to read while they’re on their outrageous tour.
- “Learning the controls: how Nintendo helped me live with Asperger’s Syndrome.” [The Toast]
- Also from the Toast, a wonderful piece on Star Trek, academic sexual harassment, the Hugo Awards, entitlement, and space babes.
- Relevant to your interests: 11 witch costumes that skip the pointy hat. [Autostraddle]
Tagged Adrienne Keene, Autostraddle, Bitch, Bitch magazine, Bitch Media, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Hugo Award, Jem and the Holograms, Jezebel, JK Rowling, Kitchenette, Native Appropriations, Nintendo, Out, Quirk Books, Star Trek, The Toast
