Tag Archives: Anita Blake

Too White Bread for This Shit: Race and Racism in Laurell K Hamilton’s Urban Fantasy Series

Posted on August 7, 2018 by

“I’m so white-bread, if you cut me I’d bleed bleached flour! I have no ethnicity to me, and I’ve always wanted some.” – Laurell K. Hamilton in an interview excerpted from Locus Magazine. I’ve been reading Laurell K. Hamilton’s urban … Continue reading →

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The Great Big Anita Blake Reread: Bloody Bones

Posted on July 18, 2018 by

For this installment of my reread series, I’ll be changing up the format in order to look at “The Good”, “The Bad”, and “The Just Plain Borked” parts of the novel. If this all goes well, this will be what … Continue reading →

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The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead – The Lunatic Cafe

Posted on January 31, 2018 by

Content/Trigger Warning: References to sexual violence, sex work/er shaming, and well… a snuff film in the text that I describe in medium detail. I still can’t believe it was in the book. I cover the ableist language in the title … Continue reading →

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Urban Fantasy 101: Sexual Assault in the Genre – Part One

Posted on December 22, 2017 by

Content warnings: this installment of Urban Fantasy 101 will be dealing with sexual assault in the genre. This means that I will be quoting and talking about sexual assault with vivid and graphic language largely pulled from the books that … Continue reading →

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The Great Big Anita Blake Reread – Circus of the Damned

Posted on October 11, 2017 by

“He’s dead, Richard, a walking corpse. It doesn’t matter how pretty he is, or how compelling, he’s still dead. I don’t date corpses. A girl’s got to have some standards.” — Anita on why she won’t give in to Jean-Claude … Continue reading →

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There’s a really creepy conversation about “Catholic School Girls” in the latest Anita Blake book…

Posted on July 10, 2017 by

Content Notes: This piece focuses on a conversation about child sexual abuse (CSA) by Catholic priests and a joke about “Catholic school girls” alongside talking about rape and CSA survivors in the Anita Blake series and how they’re treated. I … Continue reading →

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Urban Fantasy 101 – Weird Ass Werewolf Tropes

Posted on February 6, 2017 by

Content warnings: This installment of Urban Fantasy 101 contains references to or descriptions of racism, homophobia, heterocentrism, sexual assault, childhood abuse, domestic abuse, other forms of discrimination. There are also tons of footnotes. Werewolves are everywhere in the urban fantasy … Continue reading →

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The Great Big Anita Blake ReRead – The Laughing Corpse

Posted on November 28, 2016 by

Content warnings: ableism, sex worker shaming, abuse and abusive relationships, and racism. The worst part about it was that she was right. I couldn’t just put a bullet between her eyes, not unless she threatened me. I glanced at the … Continue reading →

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The Great Big Anita Blake Reread – Guilty Pleasures

Posted on October 3, 2016 by

Content Warnings: This review of Guilty Pleasures talks about the following content that readers may find disturbing, upsetting, or triggering: racism, internalized misogyny, victim blaming with regard to childhood abuse and sexual trauma, sex worker shaming, connecting sex work with … Continue reading →

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Urban Fantasy 101 – Allegory Overuse (ft. Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake series and JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series)

Posted on August 5, 2016 by

Content warnings: this installment of Urban Fantasy 101 contains very brief mentions historical acts of oppression (largely in vague terms), sexual assault and pedophilia in Laurel K Hamilton’s Anita Blake series, as well as more indepth references to anti-Black and anti-Native … Continue reading →

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