I’m baaaaaack!
I’d like to be able to say that I’m back and rarin’ to go, but honestly, I’m still pretty run down. It’s been a hell of a month. Months. Year. And what I’d like to do more than anything else is call in to work and curl up under a big, fluffy blanket with [...]
December 2nd, 2007
Categories: Personal, blogging, meta, writing . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
Inside Out is going on vacation to give me some time to recharge, wrap up the Art Et Cetera Auction, and work on a couple other projects.
The column will resume–on its new biweekly schedule–in mid-November. Seeya then!
October 21st, 2007
Categories: Girl-Wonder, Personal, blogging, meta . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
Whew, what a week! What a month, really. Or couple of months. This week’s post is going to be a series of short newsbits while I play catch-up from two operations, the death of a good friend, three family visits, and the convention season; and get ready to go to a friend’s wedding across the [...]
October 4th, 2007
Categories: Girl-Wonder, Personal, blogging, conventions, meta . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
Oh, my! I am awash with blushy pride, for the fine folk of The Hathor Legacy have awarded Inside Out a Thinking Blogger Award!
The deal with Thinking Blogger Awards is as follows:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this [...]
July 17th, 2007
Categories: Personal, blogging, fandom, meta . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
The white feminist comics blogosphere–me included–has been ignoring and pussyfooting around the issue of race for way too long. It’s time to stop.
Please take the time you’d normally spend reading my column to read this post by Cheryl Lynn, if you haven’t already. Stay off the defensive. Just sit down, shut up, and listen to [...]
July 8th, 2007
Categories: blogging, race . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
Today, boys and girls, we’re going to talk about Misty Lee’s body. She’s been talking about other people’s, so it seems only fair.
Misty Lee’s body has nothing to do with her credibility as a person and a commentator. The color of her eyes does not influence what they perceive. Her weight-height [...]
June 25th, 2007
Categories: blogging, characters, fandom, feminist stuff . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments
I’m not gonna talk about the Mary Jane Watson Parker Comiquette statue. Honestly, everything that can be said about it has, at this point. But I am gonna talk about Occasional Superheroine’s oh-so-novel suggestions in response to that discussion:
I mean, the MJ and Stephanie and Power Girl discussions, they’re a good [...]
May 16th, 2007
Categories: blogging, feminist stuff . Author: Rachel Edidin . Comments: No Comments