Results for: comics
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Set Your Phasers To Awesome: Autostraddle’s At Comic Con
I was there for you and I wanted to buy everything.
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A Lady Doctor Who, And Some Other Hopes and Dreams
The show began airing in 1963, with a hiatus and then a reboot in 2005. All in all, 11 actors have played the alien of everyone’s dreams. Every single one of those 11 actors has been a white man. (Also, as River Song says, spoilers).
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All The Small Things: Comic-Con Dug Into Some Progressive Politics, Other Cool Shit
At the San Diego ComicCon’s smaller events, your free swag is knowledge.
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Team Pick: Genius Young Women Create Feminist Superhero Trading Cards To Fight Racism and Gossip
Sarah’s Team Pick: A Grrlz Club has made female superheroes to fight against racism, “nerd discrimination”, and gossip and it’s the best thing ever.
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So Many Cunning Hats: “Firefly” Superfan Attends ComicCon’s “Firefly” Reunion, Loves It
“If I can get through this without cryin’ it’ll look a lot cooler.”- Nathan Fillion
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This Is A Bubbline Appreciation Post and Gallery
I would rather slowly pull out all my teeth than write about unconfirmed lesbian subtext in any teevee show ever. But I actually think we’re moving from the realm of wishful thinking into the realm of actual plot/canon. Here’s why.
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Supergirls Like Us: Batgirl’s Alysia Yeoh Is Trans
“It’s important not just to have characters that challenge ideas about gender and sex, but to also have them in realistic settings.”
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“Wonder Women!” Is An Awesome Documentary About Women, Power and Diana Prince
Finally, some fantastic cultural analysis about women in power and women in patriotic spandex leotards saving the day.
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Cats and Feminism and Cartoons! Wheeee!
Ali’s Team Pick: Feminism, cats and cartoons all in one happy place.
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Art Attack! An Introductory Guide to Comics for Ladygays
The comics industry is a big, crazy, complicated, ever-changing world with a lot of history — and some of that history is about queer characters.
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How Sailor Moon Made Me A Feminist: An Ode to Magical Girl Shows
Maybe it’s the influence of Sailor Moon that is part of what made me a feminist, someone who didn’t think that being a girl was a weakness but was, in fact, a special kind of power.
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New X-Men Relaunch Will Feature an All Women Team, Albeit Still Drawn By Men
Jubilee is heading up a female superhero team. Yay!
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Kate Leth Draws Comics, Knows What We Want: The Autostraddle Interview
Queer comic artist Kate Leth (of Kate or Die! fame) talks about drawing, women, drawing women, and why filthy comics are the most fun. Also, she made a sexy drawing just for you!
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Some Light Nemo Reading: Everything You Never Knew About the Technology of Storms
A lovely weather technology link round up to keep you entertained if you’re snowed in, or even if you’re not.
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The Comic Sans Project Rethinks Your Least Favorite Font
Whitney’s Team Pick: Thought you needed more Comic Sans in your life? No? Well, here’s some anyway.
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Super T&A: The Problem with Starfire, DC Comics’s Controversial Superheroine
DC’s new comic series, ‘Red Hood and the Outlaws,’ reboots a beloved female character as a one-dimensional buxom sex doll. What this means for gender in comics and the girls who looked up to her (including me).
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Batwoman is a Lesbian: DC Comics’ Gay Superheroes Stepping Out of the Subtext and Into the Light
DC Comics announced last June that they were starting fresh. The Advocate interviews DC Co-Publisher about precisely how gay this fresh start is gonna be.
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Intern Grace’s Team Pick: Comic “Three’s Company” is queer, adorable
Includes queer love, food puns, an alternative lifestyle haircut, and the phrase, “Wow, I forgot how much I liked Sleater-Kinney!”
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Taylor’s Team Pick: Bonus Doodles from Nedroid Comics on Tumblr
Cartoons to make your day considerably more whimsical.
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Birds of Prey Reboot Features Potential Lesbian, Is Also Potentially Problematic
DC’s comic book series, “Birds of Prey,” has a hard-hitting, whiskey-swilling, Betty Page-lookalike who miiiight also be a lesbian. WHAT.