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• Hey there kids, let’s start off with some good old Ghostbusters coverage:
  • The Mary Sue is here for all your recapping needs.
  • Author Jenny Trout thinks the rebooted movie is better than the original. Bold words, my friend.
  • Autostraddle gives us Holtzmann’s ten gayest moments, and, in fact, posits that all the Ghostbusters are secretly gay.
• The Steven Universe panel at SDCC sounds like it was so fun and charming, with creator Rebecca Sugar publicly coming out as a bisexual woman, and the cast leading a sing-a-long! [Autostraddle/LA Times]
• The Mary Sue asks what it would take to decolonize space exploration in our science fiction.
• “Why Elaine Fairchild [from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood] was my first feminist role model.” [The Establishment]
• Also from the Establishment, a piece on witches, women, and the narratives that give us power.
• Thirty years after Alien first came out, Little White Lies takes a look at its enduring legacy.
• BUST tackles the history of the portrayal of women in the original Star Trek, hoping that the new show will do a better job at representation than the current films.
• Go read “your white cisgender boyfriend can’t save you from the end of the world,” a poem by Kai Cheng Thom (who, full disclosure, I know in real life). [Plenitude]
• Also from people I know IRL, journalist/artist Hera Chan chats about intersectionality in Game of Thrones on CKUT 90.3 FM’s Free City Radio.
• The New York Times published a comic by Lynda Barry, in which Heidi (from Heidi) and Carrie (from Carrie) become friends.
• Angry Asian Man is justifiably excited for the multiple men of colour populating Star Wars: Rogue One.
• True to form, Jacobin explores the capitalist implications of Pokemon Go.
• “Margaret Atwood on Donald Trump, witches, and flying cats.” I’m currently reading her book about science fiction, In Other Worlds, so I can at least confirm that flying cats are a lifelong obsession, as well as the subject of her upcoming graphic novel. [Lithub]

Image: “Who you gonna call,” Delaney Januzzi