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Tag Archives: feminism
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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Nyota Uhura: One More Black Female Character Fandom Wants To Be Strong and Single Forever
I need White Feminism (which exists to benefit whiteness and white womanhood) to stop telling me that Black female characters are better off when they’re single. I need White Feminists ™ in fandom to stop pretending that they’re protecting or promoting … Continue reading
Posted in Fandom, Rants
Tagged fandom racism, feminism, Nyota Uhura, shipping culture, star trek, star trek beyond, white feminism
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Wonder Woman Earth One Is Far From Wondrous
Content warnings: This post contains descriptions and images of sexual assault/harassment from the comic that may be triggering or upsetting to readers. With every reading of Wonder Woman: Earth One, I hate it a little bit more. Grant Morrison has … Continue reading
Maggie Stiefvater’s Got An Issue With the Star Wars’ fandom’s focus on Poe & Finn
Obviously, this post has spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And some of them might be above the cut. Earlier yesterday, The Raven Cycle author Maggie Stiefvater took to tumblr (in a response to a message sent from one … Continue reading
Posted in Book Talk, Fandom
Tagged fandom, feminism, Maggie Stiefvater, race, The Force Awakens
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[Rant] When People on Pedestals Fall Off: MCU Cast Edition
This post contains mentions of sexism-as-humor and uncensored gendered slurs. I’m pretty sure that everyone that cares about the Avengers or hates sexism has heard about what happened with Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner when doing press for Age … Continue reading
Posted in Rants
Tagged age of ultron, chris evans, fandom, feminism, jeremy renner, MCU, sexism
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Her Universe and the DC’s Super Hero Girls Initiative
Today, I woke up to two interesting things going on in comics. Both things revolved around women and girls in comics. I have thoughts on both but I’m a wee bit grumpy about them weirdly enough (thankfully, some commentary from … Continue reading
Posted in Rants
Tagged comic books, DC Comics, dc super hero girls initiative, fashion, feminism, heruniverse, Marvel, representation, the avengers
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[Film Review] Fast & Furious 7
While short, this review does contain spoilers for Fast & Furious 7 both in the text and in the video accompanying it. If you haven’t seen it yet, this isn’t the review for you. I loved the original premise for the … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged fast & furious 7, feminism, furious 7, michelle rodriguez, movie review, representation
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