unfridged

• First up for your viewing pleasure, an “X-wear Through the Ages” poster! [modHero Tumblr]
• Felicia Day, always delightful, takes to her blog to explain the difference between complaining about Michael B. Jordan being cast as the historically-white Human Torch, and being disappointed that the role of Tiger Lily will go white actress Rooney Mara in a rebooted version of Peter Pan.
• GitHub engineer Julie Ann Horvath recently left the company, and shared her hellish experiences dealing with the social network with TechCrunch. There’s intimidation, a lack of respect, sexual harassment, all that good stuff.
• So the Veronica Mars movie continues to be a great success, so much so that a sequel is already being proposed. Kristen Bell is apparently on board, and creator Rob Thomas says the next film would centre more on the unsolved case and would maybe resemble Chinatown. Also there may be a Dick Casablancas-centered web series. You know, just for fun. [TVLine]
• The Atlantic takes an amazing, in depth look at gender parity in the workplace, putting together international statistics on math skills, unpaid labour, executive positions and more.
• The Nerds of Color really want Marvel to cast an Asian American actor as Iron Fist, and have some solid character-building reasons to back it up.
• Despite the nostalgia surrounding Street Fighter II, it was undeniably racist as hell. [NPR Code Switch]
• This New York Times piece, titled “The Apartheid of Children’s Literature,” tackles the heartbreaking lack of characters of colour in the stories children are exposed to, and includes some really wonderful sentiments, among which: “Children of color remain outside the boundaries of imagination. The cartography we create with this literature is flawed.”

Image by Kris Anka.