Monthly Archives: January 2012
Master Post: Women In Refrigerators 13 Years Later
In 1999 Gail Simone asked the comics industry and fandom a question: why does this keep happening? Why do so many female characters keep turning up dead? Why are they so often tortured and raped? That was the start of … Continue reading
Roundup five
In our fifth and final roundup for Women In Refrigerators: 13 Years Later, our contributors are looking at life after WiR. Our Princess Is In Another Refrigerator, by Fuck Yeah Black Widow. The flipside of that is that people cry … Continue reading
Roundup four
Two updates in one day, can it be true? Well, yes. Defrosting the DCnU (or not), by Jess Plummer. You probably already know this too, but this past September, DC canceled their entire line of titles and (conditionally) rebooted their … Continue reading
Roundup three
A couple of posts for your lazy weekend delectation: Elisabeth Pfeiffer has posted the second part of her article on sexual violence against women in comics: I have created a list of women in comics who have been sexually manipulated/abused/molested/assaulted or raped. … Continue reading
we interrupt this carnival, for some adminstrivia and miscellany
Let’s the boring stuff out of the way first: Ladies, we’ve registered the domain womenwriteaboutcomics.com for your linking convenience. Traffic to that address will now redirect here. Your old links will continue working just fine. We also updated our Twitter … Continue reading
Roundup the second
We’ve got some great posts by smart ladies for you today… and some thoughts on WiR from guy (yes, we promised we’d link to your contributions too, guys). First off, certainshadesoflight reflects on the difficulty of just responding to the … Continue reading
Our first roundup post!
Our first roundup post is short on links, but not on ideas. First off, didyoueverstoptothink of Tumblr and WordPress reflects on the difficulty of responding to this week’s theme, Women In Refrigerators 13 Years Later: Women In Refrigerators, the site, … Continue reading
ladies, we are live
Today marks the start of Women Write About Comics (Part The First). Throughout the week, participants will be posting their contributions on their blogs, tumblrs and journals. Track the tag #womenoncomics (both Twitter and Tumblr) if you want to see … Continue reading
Still seeking inspiration?
Suffering from writer’s block? Not sure what you can contribute to the carnival? Options, you have them! To get your brain juices flowing, here are two very different response to Women In Refrigerators. First, a poem. the value of daughters … Continue reading
Are you writing about comics? How’s that going?
The Carnival approaches! Is your contribution ready? Have you… even started it? Never fear procrastinators, you still have a week! Some reminders: You can post your essay/vid/comic/interpretive dance at any time during the week of January 22-28. If you don’t … Continue reading
