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Tag Archives: black women
[PCA 2021 Presentation] “What Are You Even Doing Here?”: Unpacking The Motivations & Experiences of Black Women & Femme K-pop Fans
I had to change some things because of the YouTube copyright crap – so there’s no music in this version and so I can’t include the edits, challenge, or song I included when presenting this live. But aside from the … Continue reading
[Guest Post] Alison the Beloved (Part Two)
In this part of my essay, I dig into fan characterizations of Alison, using the AO3 corpus as a representative sample. An examination of SotS fan content on AO3 reveals that Alison may be the Doctor’s beloved in SotS, but she’s largely unloved in fandom. Continue reading
[Guest Post] Alison the Beloved (Part One)
The Black companions in the rebooted iteration of Doctor Who have it rough, especially the women. Think of Martha, who suffers Simm Master’s mockery and his enforced servitude of her family in Season 3’s Sound of Drums. Think of Bill, … Continue reading
[Guest Post] Searching for Black Mothers: Looking in the Margins of Black Panther and Into the Spider-Verse
This awesome guest post comes courtesy of Samira Nadkarni! Images in the header are from ComingSoon.net (Spider-Verse) and KissThemGoodbye.net (Black Panther). Earlier this week, I read Zina’s post on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the character of Miles Morales, and the … Continue reading
What Fandom Racism Looks Like: Misogynoir – Introduction
The most disrespected woman in America, is the black woman. The most un-protected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America, is the black woman. – Malcolm X, from a speech he gave May 5, … Continue reading
Posted in What Fandom Racism Looks Like
Tagged black women, fandom, misogynoir, Misogynoir Mini Series
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[Image Post] “Strong Black Women”
Original Post: Nyota Uhura: One More Black Female Character Fandom Wants To Be Strong and Single Forever White Feminism (as an institution) thinks that championing Black women as too strong and too independent to ever “need” a man in their lives … Continue reading
#NowWeRise – Children of Blood and Bone Blog Tour (Moodboard + Blogging Bits)
You know, I think this might be the first time I’ve ever done a blog tour? When I got the email about possibly doing something for the release of Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone in its release week, I … Continue reading
Posted in Book Talk
Tagged black women, Book tour, Children of Blood and Bone, representation matters
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Black Girls Next Door: Four changes I’d like to make in Spider-Man: Homecoming
I loved Spider-Man: Homecaming way more than I probably should love a film that takes a huge chunk of what (little) I liked about Brian Michael Bendis’ origin story for Afro-Latino Spider-Man Miles Morales and… gives it to (a … Continue reading
Posted in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Rants
Tagged black women, Giveaways, Spider-Man: Homecoming, zendaya
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[Book Review] All About Mia by Lisa Williamson
Title: All About Mia Author: Lisa Williamson (Twitter) Rating: Recommended Genre: Contemporary, Black heroine, Diverse, Coming of Age, Young Adult, Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. Release Date: September 12, 2017 Buy Links: AMAZON | BARNES AND NOBLE Note: Please message me if … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged All About Mia, black women, book review, Coming of age, Contemporary, Diverse fiction, Lisa Williamson, Young Adult
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So Long and Good Riddance, Sleepy Hollow
Back when Sleepy Hollow first started, it was basically everything I wanted in an TV show. This was a few months after I’d officially given up on Supernatural as a show so not only did I need a new Urban … Continue reading
Posted in Stitch Watches...
Tagged black women, Fox, race and representation, sleepy hollow
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Women of Color in Marvel Live Action Properties: Claire Temple
Women of Color in Marvel Live Action Properties is an essay series that will look closely at the portrayals of female characters of color by actresses of color in Marvel’s various franchises. I was inspired by the fact that a … Continue reading
Posted in Women of Color in Marvel Live Action Properties
Tagged black women, Claire Temple, Daredevil, diversity, feminism, Luke Cage
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Whose Luke Cage Reviews Matter To Me
I started watching Luke Cage yesterday morning and immediately I found myself bombarded with the thinkiest of thoughts. I have thoughts on respectability politics in the series, on Luke Cage’s old-fashioned everything, on Black womanhood, on the use of the … Continue reading
Letters to the Author – Afton Locke
Note that this Letter to the Author contains graphic descriptions of racism and racist violence (sexual and otherwise) as it relates to the reality of white supremacy in history and historical romances. Dear Afton Locke, I could write you about … Continue reading
Things About Fandom That Stand Out to Me
Originally written in April 2015 for the blog Womanist Glasses, I felt that a repost was timely and necessary as I prepare to talk about fandom and blackness in a couple of posts I’m set to post. I still believe … Continue reading
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