Series
Urban Fantasy 101
What I aim for in this post series isn’t actually to name and shame authors for their reliance on tropes I find incredibly harmful (although I know it must look like that with how much I harp about Laurell K Hamilton’s stuff sometimes). My goal is to talk about how the fantasy of urban fantasy can remain inaccessible to many people – often people of color, queer people, and anyone that isn’t cis – and how that negatively impacts the reading experience.
I don’t want to rewrite the genre to my exacting specifications or police what authors write. I just want to make a space for conversations about problematic aspects of the genre, one where education and venting are the main focus.
Urban Fantasy 101: White Savior Stories (2019)
Urban Fantasy 101: Vamp Supremacy (Fall 2018)
Too White Bread for This Shit: Race and Racism in Laurell K Hamilton’s Urban Fantasy Series
Urban Fantasy 101: A Few of My Favorite Fang-Havers
Urban Fantasy 101: Vamping Out
Urban Fantasy 101: A Quick Guide to Shifter Romances
Urban Fantasy 101: Sexual Assault in the Genre – Part One
Urban Fantasy 101 – Weird Ass Werewolf Tropes
Urban Fantasy 101 – It’s A Heteronormative World Out There
Urban Fantasy 101 – Werelions And Tigers And Bears! Oh My!
Urban Fantasy 101: Single White Vampire
Urban Fantasy 101 – Gentry-Fication
Urban Fantasy 101 – Issues of Immortal Morality
The Great Big Anita Blake Reread
The Great Big Anita Blake Reread – Guilty Pleasures
The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead – The Laughing Corpse
The Great Big Anita Blake Reread – Circus of the Damned
The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead – The Lunatic Cafe
The Great Big Anita Blake Reread: Bloody Bones
Radioplay Day
Radioplay Day – Blue Beetle – Episode 1 “Drug Ring”
Radioplay Day: The Shadow – “The Creeper”
Radioplay Day: The Shadow – The Curse of the Cat
Letters to the Author
Letter to the Author – Matt Wallace
Letters to the Author – Afton Locke
Letters to the Author – JK Rowling
Problematic Fave
Problematic Fave – The Authority: Human On The Inside
The Sandman: My Ultimate Problematic Fave
What Fandom Racism Looks Like
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: The Smartest Girl in the World Has To Be A Mary Sue
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: (Not So) Sexy Slavefic (July 2018)
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: White Prioritization (August 2018)
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Only 33 Words in a Trailer
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: #NotAll Fans (November 2018)
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Beige Blank Slates (January 2019)
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Major Misogynoir (Fall Winter 2018)
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Patterns and Preference (Spring 2019)
Dear Comic Fans
Dear Comic Fans: We Get it. You’re racist and racebending scares you.
Dear Comic Fans, Guess What: You’re Still Not Handling Racebending and Diverse Casting Very Well!
Dear Comic Fans, It’s Been Four Years And Y’all Are Still So Darn Angry About Racebending (October 2018)
Fandom’s Race Problem (On-Hiatus Essay Series)
Fandom. you’ve got a huge race problem — An Introduction Post
Fandom’s Huge Race Problem Essay #2: Co-Opted Experiences and Identities in Fandom
“Must Reads”
Wonder Woman Earth One Is Far From Wondrous
Crimson Peak’s pretty but it sure doesn’t look diverse!
Slash Shipping, Pseudo-Progressivism, and Reinforcing Patriarchal Standards in Fandom
Fantastic Beasts & Invisible Diversity in the Harry Potter Series
On Grayson, fandom, problematic media, and the drive to “defend” popular male characters
Black Ladies Deserve Love Too: Lupita Nyong’o, Concern Trolling, and White Feminism
Stitch on Fansplaining’s Two-Part Episode About Race and Fandom!
Grayson #20 and WOC as the “Wrong Choice” Love Interests
The Reality of Bendis Writing Blackness
Fear of Fucking Up: Not Actually A Good Excuse For Erasing Characters of Color
Let’s Stop Giving The Killing Joke More Credit Than It Deserves
Nyota Uhura: One More Black Female Character Fandom Wants To Be Strong and Single Forever
Quit Trying To Make” Forced Diversity” Happen (It’s Not A Thing)
Valkyrie isn’t ‘Male-Coded’ And You’re Kinda Racist
“What if a white guy played Black Panther?”: The Fake Concern of Fake Geek Guys
What It’s Like Being Fandom Critical While Black
“Who’s Super Selfish Here?”: Oliver and Felicity, WestAllen Wedding Crashers
A Quick Quibble: Supposedly “Straightwashing” Okoye in Black Panther
In Fandom, All Villains Aren’t Treated Equally
When White Villains Get Woobiefied: Kylo Ren Is Just A Monster In A Mask
Queer Coded Villains Aren’t That Awesome’
Sacrifice, Heroics, and Dead Characters of Color
Intersectionality Fail: Star Wars The Last Jedi Without Men
In Fandom, All Villains Aren’t Treated Equally
Stitch Elsewhere
Comic Reviews @ Word of The Nerd
“Bond Girl” @ The Mary Sue (Bond Girl page on my site)
- Survival, Slavery, and Suffering in the Graphic Novel of Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’
- “From Black Panther To Moon Girl: A Brief History Of Young Black Brilliance in Superhero Comics“
How It Feels To Be “Cute For A Black Girl”
Women Write About Comics
Anathema Magazine
EFNIKS Magazine
