This post is for Keely, whose idea it was, and without whom I would likely have let both Love Your Body Day and Fat Talk Free Week slip by without noticing. But! Luckily for me (and you), Keely is more alert than I, and thanks to her, you get a roundup of Five Characters Who [...]
I spent last weekend at the Emerald City ComiCon (which is awesome, by the way, and which I heartily recommend to anyone who hangs out in the Pacific Northwest or is interested in heading in that direction for a few days), mostly working at the Dark Horse table. It was pretty low-key–we weren’t doing any [...]
Africa is basically one large country, split into nation states for reasons of plot convenience. There are few or no cultural or geographic difference between its regions. All Africans practice the same religion, which is ambiguous and animistic and can occasionally produce super powers. All Jews are deeply observant. Eastern Europe is almost entirely undeveloped. [...]
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 [...]