March 2012
50 posts
“The fact that you’re engraged is amusing to me. Don’t worry pumpkin, one day...”
– So I made a post on my book blog recommending some graphic novels/comics for my readers, partially as a response to seeing a whole bunch of guys lately (more so than usual) insisting that girls don’t read comics and comics aren’t for girls anyway.
I got one comment. From this dude. And I had to...
February 2012
24 posts
ofanotherfashion:
This family portrait was taken in 1900 in Gainesville, Florida. It’s part of a collection at the State Library and Archives of Florida.
Feminist Disney: POC stereotyping in sitcoms...... →
feministdisney:
I read an interesting piece about POC representation in Macleans yesterday titled, “Three stereotypes walk into a diner…are walking ethnic cliches better than no cliches in sitcoms?”
I don’t always like how Macleans discusses things, but I have to give them props for quoting some really good…
“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light)
Of Another Fashion: It’s 1956 in San Francisco and... →
ofanotherfashion:
It’s 1956 in San Francisco and this is my grandmother, Encar Villanueva. She’s standing next my grandfather’s cadillac. Today, my grandmother or lola (in Tagalog) lives in a nursing home in San Francisco in the late stages of Alzheimer’s. But when this photo was taken, her personality was…
I love glimpses into the lives of women, because so often this is the history...
“We kissed, we held each other, we lay on top of each other in bed… and there...”
– John Barrowman on ‘Torchwood’ (via roseandthebeast: cocknbull)
“This genre is rooted in the epic — and the truth is that there are plenty of...”
– —N.K. Jemisin, “Dreaming Awake,” an essay on being a woman of color writing fantastic fiction (via matociquala
)
Range of Ghosts excerpt →
matociquala:
The web-pixies at Tor.com have posted an excerpt of Range of Ghosts, in which we meet a young semi-nomadic warrior named Temur, who is having an exceedingly bad day…
By “bad day,” I mean that it starts with vultures.
And goes downhill.
The cover copy says:
Temur, grandson of the Great Khan, is walking away from a battlefield where he was left for dead. All around lie the...
