What is the difference between porn and erotica? If there is a distinction, is it generic or moral? Five WWAC staffers explore the question, their own preferences in sex and sexual media.
Searching for Their Bones: The Little Red Chairs Reviewed
I first encountered Edna O’Brien in an Irish Literature class in college, through her novel The House of Splendid Isolation. Out of all the wonderful works I read in class, that book stayed with me the longest. While making the reader uncomfortable by putting a human face on a character who has committed atrocities is nothing new,…
Mom’N’Pop Culture: Let’s Not Talk About Sex, Like Ever
In my family I would call myself the truthsayer. I don’t hold back, and more than often I tell my kids the truth when it comes to life. If they try to run off in a parking lot, I will quickly tell them that getting hit by a car means they die. If they die,…
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Faith and Five Word Webcomics
For a couple days at the end of last week, a neat trend took over the webcomics hashtag: creators describing their webcomics in five words. Hashtags like these have popped up on Twitter and Tumblr before, and are a fun way to promote webcomics and independent creators, even though boiling a digital epic down to…
Alison Rapp and Speech We Hate: Disentangling an Ugly Mess
When Alison Rapp was hired to work at Nintendo of America, her 2011 undergraduate honors thesis, Speech We Hate: An Argument for the Cessation of International Pressure on Japan to Strengthen Its Anti-Child Pornography Laws, had been publicly available in the Honors Review for more than a year. Then, as now, it was available freely for public, and certainly…
NSFW: It’s Better (For Me) On Top
I own a hoodie that says “It’s better on top” across the front of it. It was my high school senior sweatshirt, now it’s my stealthy queer-coded clothing item. Recently I explained to my mother what it means to be a lesbian “stone top.” Even though my mother is more like an annoying older sister, it…
It’s Porn, But Is It Art? A Lost Girls Retrospective
Content Warning: Discussions of sex, rape, and pedophilia. It’s hard to believe it’s been a decade since the release of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls—and all the controversy that came with it. Part an attempt to elevate pornography as a genre of storytelling, part a celebration of love and beauty in the face…
Mighty Marvel Monday: The End of March Madness
Hey, friends. It’s been a bad week for me, but it hasn’t been a completely awful week for Marvel, so I suppose that’s something. Let’s start off with something interesting, shall we? Like these pictures of Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor during filming for Doctor Strange that were tweeted out. I still have many reservations…
Sunday Art Gala: Meet the WWAC Powerpuff Girls Super Squad!
Learning about a new avatar creator is like a call to action for us at Women Write About Comics. With the April 4th premier of the new season of Cartoon Network’s Powerpuff Girls, how could we resist the opportunity to Powerpuff ourselves–especially when eeeeverybody’s doing it. One of our pet peeves when it comes to…
Weekend Review: Everyone’s Eating Cereal, Coloring, and Playing Avenger’s Academy
For the northern WWAC staff, March roared in like a lion, but we’re definitely looking forward to that lamb-like spring the Weather Network is sort of promising is maybe around the corner.
This Week in WWAC History: Tough Ladies
There is no shortage of tough ladies in the WWAC Archives, whether they are fictional, staffers, or industry professionals. Last April, WWAC spotlighted a few and through these spotlights we hope these tough ladies will gain a few more fans. Enjoy!
Shinbun Saturday: Another Classic Manga Jumps on the Kickstarter Bandwagon
Hello readers! Vernieda checking in from the U.S. Mid-Atlantic, where we’re kicking off April with showers. Hopefully, that means we’ll indeed get flowers in May! Over the past couple years, we’ve been seeing lots of Kickstarters to bring over classic manga like Osamu Tezuka’s extensive catalog and more recently, anime like Escaflowne and Skip Beat!…