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Feb 26 2014

WWDWD: What Would Dark Willow Do?

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Dark Willow would make the Olympic torch blow up in Putin’s face.
Dark Willow would make hateful picket signs bludgeon the Westboro Baptist Church to death.
Dark Willow would make Arizona legislators sit in a dark room, watching the same Leave it to Beaver episode on loop for all eternity, Clockwork Orange-style, since they like the 1950s so much.
Dark Willow would put all claustrophobic bigots in closets for years, see how they like it.
Dark Willow would deny any involvement in the mysterious disappearances of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and the entire Red Pepper editorial board.
Dark Willow would bury Cecil Chao in 6,500,000,000 pennies.
Dark Willow would cross over to the Firefly universe, find Jayne, and shoot him with Vera.
Dark Willow would reanimate Cece MacDonald‘s attacker, just to flay him. (Staying on brand, you know?)
Dark Willow would shove a microphone down Rush Limbaugh’s throat. Or a basketball. She’s not picky.
Dark Willow would stick her hands into her laptop, track down hacker douchebags, and short their circuits.

Tagged Arizona, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cece MacDonald, Cecil Chao, Dark Willow, Firefly, Jayne, Olympic Games, Red Pepper, Rush Limbaugh, Uganda, Westboro Baptist Church, Willow Rosenberg, Yoweri Museveni

Jan 10 2014

Weekend Reading List: FemLove and fitting in

I don’t know how I wasn’t aware of The Toast’s Femslash Fridays, but now I am and I wouldn’t have it any other way. You want Buffy/Faith? On it. Kaylee/Inara? Done. Harley Quinn/Poison Ivy? You got it. Rory Gilmore/Paris Gellar? Sure thing. Sansa/Brienne? You’re welcome (and oh what a pair they make).
Disney princesses as World of Warcraft characters. I never thought I’d type the phrase “Snow White is my favourite,” but there you go. [Kotaku]
Disney princesses as college students. They are now much more relatable. Who knew I spent four years reenacting Sleeping Beauty? [College Humor]
Aromaleigh Mineral Cosmetics has a new line of eye shadow inspired by women in antiquity. Give it a look, if only to read the great descriptions of badass women we don’t hear nearly enough about.
The Guardian reviews Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, by Peter Bagge, and makes me more excited about it than I already was.
We now know more about the sex life of Cretaceous flowers. [Geekosystem]
Tamagotchi app.
This one’s from a little while back, but Spock’s answer to a little biracial girl still warms the cold, jaded cockles of my heart. [Buzzfeed]
The 1992 documentary Black Sci-Fi might be lost, but there are some great clips still floating around, including interviews with Octavia Butler, Nichelle Nichols, and Mike Sargent. [Tor]
There’s actually a lot of good stuff on Tor this week, including articles expressing disappointment with the character of River Song, and explaining why Labyrinth is a classic.
These travel destinations are so absurdly beautiful they look otherworldly, science fictional even. [Buzzfeed]

Tagged A Game of Thrones, A Song of Ice and Fire, Aromaleigh Mineral Cosmetics, Batman, Black Sci-Fi, Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buzzfeed, College Humor, Cretaceous, DC, Disney, Doctor Who, Faith, Femslash Fridays, Firefly, Geekosystem, Gilmore Girls, Harley Quinn, Inara, Kaylee, Kotaku, Labyrinth, Mike Sargent, Nichelle Nichols, Octavia Butler, Paris Gellar, Peter Bagge, Poison Ivy, River Song, Rory Gilmore, Sansa Brienne, Spock, Star Trek, tamagotchi, The Guardian, The Toast, Tor, Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger story, World of Warcraft

Sep 27 2013

Weekend Reading List: Russian rebels and pretty floral bonnets

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Years ago I went sailing in British Columbia’s Desolation Sound, and for a whole day the water was totally choked with little white jellyfish. They were so thick that it seemed like there were more jellyfish than actual ocean. By evening they were gone though, so I figured we’d passed them by and I could go for a pre-dinner snorkel. I jump in, stick my face in the water, and what do I see? Not even six feet from the surface, WALL OF JELLYFISH. Cue hysterical underwater panic attack. All of this to say that I might not be totally unbiased when it comes to jellyfish, BUT, you guys, ZOMBIE JELLYFISH EXIST, and also there are lots of different kinds that can kill you in minutes and they’re TAKING OVER THE WORLD. [Grist/The New York Review of Books]
I’ve started playing Winterstrike, a text adventure written by Yoon Ha Lee over at Storynexus, and I can’t recommend it enough. In the game, you explore the ice-locked city of Iria, trying to figure out what happened during the cataclysmic winterstrike, and a highlight for me is definitely that many of the characters you encounter—merchants, duelists, and militia members—are women. You can also choose to be ambiguously gendered, which doesn’t happen often in games. It’s details like that that are really meaningful and make the world richer.
WE ARE GETTING MORE FIREFLY COMICS. THIS IS STARTING TO DAMAGE MY CALM. [Comic Book Resources]
Racialicious asks if, in all the hullaballoo about the new Miss America, we’re forgetting that she’s super geeky.
Would you like a $100 3D printer? Kickstarter’s got you covered.
How does a 15 year-old shoot her way out of a Nazi interrogation room? Find out more about Zinaida Portnova at the Toast.

Top image by Jake Lawrence of Timecowboy!

Tagged British Columbia, Comic Book Resources, Darkhorse, Desolation Sound, Firefly, Grist, jellyfish, Kickstarter, Miss America, Nazi, New York Review of Books, Racialicious, Serenity, Storynexus, The Peachy Printer, The Toast, Winterstrike, Yoon Ha Lee, Zinaida Portnova

Sep 20 2013

Weekend Reading List: Final Girls and Wonder Women

Anyexcuseformorezoe

Vulture talks to Gina Torres about her work, being the tallest person in the room, and the campaign to have her play Wonder Woman (which I am totally on board with, because Gina Torres is already the Wonder Woman of my heart).
Discover reports that men who present themselves as less stereotypically masculine have lower rates of heart disease. It’s not a perfect article, but it’s always great to have more reasons to talk about how rigidly we still define gender and how much value we still attribute to hypermasculinity.
This really wonderful discussion on queerness in the Black community and the stigma of loving trans* women features Orange is the New Black‘s Laverne Cox as an added bonus. [Colorlines]
US servicewomen were asked what they thought about their portrayal in video games, and their answers are fantastic. They pull no punches and draw some interesting parallels between women fighting misogyny in the military, and women fighting misogyny in gaming. [The Jace Hall Show]
We may get a horror drama in which Jamie Lee Curtis recruits a bunch of “final girls” from horror movies, bringing them together to “channel the stress and scars of their experience for some greater good.” Just let that bit of awesome sink in for a moment. [Deadline]
The 6th World is a short film that follows Tazbah Redhouse, a Navajo astronaut on her way to colonize Mars. The short, by director Nanobah Becker, is a really cool blending of science fiction and Navajo origin stories, with some environmental overtones thrown in. You can watch it here.
According to Native Appropriations, the Canadian iTunes app store has begun censoring a racial slur—even though it’s the name of a certain American football team—setting a pretty great precedent.
And à propos of absolutely nothing, someone used pictures of James Franco as covers for classic books, and I love it. [BookRiot]

Top image by drawing-bored.tumblr.com/

Tagged Apple, Colorlines, Deadline, Discover, Final Girls, Firefly, Gina Torres, hypermasculinity, iTunes, Jace Hall Show, James Franco, Jamie Lee Curtis, Laverne Cox, Nanobah Becker, Native Appropriations, Orange is the New Black, Suits, The 6th World, Vulture, Wonder Woman, Zoe Washburn

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