Disney is set to release Big Hero 6, a movie based on Chris Claremont’s Marvel comics, and it looks super cool. The Nerds of Color have some background on the project, and are super excited about what could potentially be the first computer animated Disney movie with a main character of Asian descent. As am I.
Here’s a great piece on the marginalization of black comic creators that takes particular aim at the trend pieces that, full of misplaced outrage, believe these creators don’t exist at all. [Badazz Mofo]
Interested in how fairy tales went from being adult stories passed on from woman to woman to male-controlled moralizing tales for children? Here ya go. [The Toast]
If you only read one thing today, let it be this amazing piece on misogyny, entitlement, and nerds. Making connections between Elliot Rodger and video games, it’s a really important piece on the systematic dehumanization of women in nerd spaces. [The Daily Beast]
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