Sierra Santiago is an artist. Her current project? Beautifying the development that was abandoned by scurrilous developers and would-be gentrifiers in Brooklyn. Sierra thinks a big, badass dragon would send a good message: don’t try to take our neighborhood from us. When her ailing grandfather and other family friends keep mysteriously encouraging her to finish…
Poetry Doesn’t Have to be the Worst: Three Contemporary Poets to Get You Started
When I tell people that I read poetry—and even worse, if I tell them I write poetry—I sometimes get some strange looks. Or at least, a raised eyebrow that seems to say, “Well aren’t you so fancy and smart?” Poetry as a whole has a bad reputation for being boring, snobbish, and hard to understand….
Dogears: Korean Jane Eyre, Polish Fantasy, and Everyday Barf
Re Jane Patricia Park Pamela Dorman Books May 5, 2015 Despite the book’s problems—you know, the colonialism and portrayal of Bertha Mason—I have always loved Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. I loved how independent and even snarky she could be for a 19th century heroine. Jane’s return to brooding, jerky Rochester at the end of the…
Reading Diaries: What We’re Reading this Summer
Angel: I’ve been pretty focused on upcoming books recently, and a current favourite is The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet, based off The Lizzie Bennet Diaries webseries character. I liked it much more than Lizzie’s book, which was released last year, because Lydia felt more real and like she had potential to explore beyond the…
You can’t go home to Yugoslavia again: Girl at War reviewed
Girl at War Sara Novic Random House May 12, 2015 “‘What kind of question is that?’ he asked after a while, his voice raw. ‘Of course we want to go back. Of course we’re going home.’” At the heart of Girl at War is the idea of home. Debut novelist, Sara Novic, tells the story…
The Lord of the Rings, The Magicians, and Finally Learning How Not to Nerd-shame
I’ve always had a lot of opinions about The Lord of the Rings and all of them were always correct. Between the ages of 10 to 15, The Lord of the Rings books were my books. I read them every summer—thanks to my less-than-great school system with no summer reading requirements—and thought they were the…
Dogears: The Next Generation of Unapologetic, Obstinate Busybodies
How it Went Down Kekla Magoon Henry Holt and Co. October 21, 2014 Do you know the phrase, “there are two sides to every story?” Instead of two, this book presents about a dozen. The only facts of the story—presented in a foreword titled “The Incident”—are that black teenager Tariq Johnson, was shot twice by…
Reading Diaries: Un-Pretty, No-Make-Up Emotions
Once a month the members of Women Write About Comics get together to chat about what they’ve been reading. Here’s what we liked (and what we didn’t).
#ToyLikeMe and the Angelica Doll: A Push for Representation in Toys
Representation is such a simple concept: you want to be able to see yourself in many different forms and media. It’s idea that we often think about in relation to movies, books, and comics, but not always in toys. One community of parents and one very driven mom are trying bring children with disabilities and…
Supporting Geeky Indie Crafters: A WWAC Shopping Guide
We have some pretty talented crafters here at WWAC, but for those of us who are less crafty inclined or just want to support other crafters, we are sharing some of our favorite indie geek crafters.