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Weekend Reading List: Ordinary women and overblown wingnuts

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.

Weekend Reading List: Cat burglars and consenting cuddles

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Sarah Michelle Gellar recently did a Reddit AMA, and her answers are pretty great (except for the whole preferring sadsack Angel thing). [Pajiba]
This comic by Stjepan Sejic finally explains why female superheroes wear such revealing outfits, and also features what is perhaps the best sound effect ever committed to the page. [Fashionably Geek]
Dating advice for the modern monster. [The Hairpin]
In celebration of National Pig Day, I wrote about the best pigs in literature for Quirk Books.
There’s going to be a new Cree superhero joining Justice League United, based on Attawapiskat activist Shannen Koostachin. She looks pretty great so here’s hoping everything works out well! [DC Women Kicking Ass]
It’s not a secret that I love the Toast’s Femslash Fridays series, but this week they’ve paired Miss Scarlett and Carmen Sandiego and the little 90s girlchild with a penchant for boardgames and kids’ geography trivia shows in me is DYING.
The Toast also writes a love letter to Twin Peak‘s Audrey Horne, and I cosign it.
What happens when you combine Beyoncé lyrics with fighting the undead? Magical things. Art project Beyoncé vs. Zombies is a treasure.
The New Yorker has a new biography of Tove Jansson (of Moomin fame) that really showcases how delightful and incisive the writer/illustrator really was.
HBO’s about to release their Catch the Throne mixtape, featuring Big Boi’s “Mother of Dragons.” Despite some weird comments about reaching “multicultural audiences,” it’s pretty great. [Slate]
The new trailer for Oculus looks wonderful and scary, but I’m mostly focusing on how much I love that Starbuck is Amy Pond’s mom.
Toronto Comic Con is happening this weekend, and the ridiculous “Cuddle a Cosplayer” advertising, as well as their subsequent cluelessness when dealing with people concerned with issues of consent at conventions, is putting a damper on things. [The Mary Sue]
As part of Women’s History Month, Open Road Media has put together a great video in which their authors talk about their early experiences in science fiction.

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Weekend Reading List: Ordinary women and overblown wingnuts

Weekend Reading List: Cat burglars and consenting cuddles