Earlier this week, we talked about friendships ending: Signs for toxic friendships that need to end, potential reasons for why some friendships end, and how patriarchy can negatively impact our friendships. In Part 2, we continue this conversation by sharing our advice, based on our own experiences, when dealing with the pain and grief that comes…
Drink Your Comics: Betty & Veronica and the Fourth of July
I don’t know about you, but for me, summer means the Cape, the beach, and long evenings sitting with a cool drink out in the backyard. In general, I reach for my tried and true Tanqueray gin and tonic, but if, like me, you want to try a few new flavors, here are a few…
Casually Sidestepping Toxicity: Sex Without Monogamy
We’ve all been lied to about sex. This is pretty obvious: anyone who has been sexually active even once knows that the general, socially-approved narrative of what sex is and what sex should be like is, if not a flat-out lie, at least a glossy, gorgeous fiction. As we grow up and get thrown into…
That Dr. Strange Trailer Sure Is Awful
The Dr. Strange trailer. So… it’s here. We hated it. Here’s why: Megan Purdy: This seems like a trailer for four movies in one: The Matrix, Inception, Eat Pray Love and a watery wuxia ripoff for white America. It’s visually confused and so derivative that it makes no argument for its own existence. It relies…
6 Movie Scores and Soundtracks to Level Up Your Day
One of the great frustrations of being a bookworm, gamer, comics addict, or film devotee is knowing that the real world will never quite measure up to the ones in our favorite fictional worlds. It will never be quite as exciting, dramatic, romantic, or perilous: our world is mundane. The ones we devour through books and…
Buying Flowers for Girls: The Importance of Romantic Friendships
Like most holidays in America, Valentine’s Day has come to stand in for the entire month of February. While romantic love is all good and well (as are cheap chocolates and roses), WWAC Lifestyle is celebrating love of the platonic variety (and the many variations therein) this month. We started with Catie Coleman’s tips on how…
The Writing’s on the Wall and it Ain’t Great: One Bond-Lover’s Opinion of SPECTRE
SPECTRE Sam Mendes Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Christoph Waltz November 2015 Please note, this review contains spoilers. Pretty much as long as I’ve been a conscious being, I’ve loved Bond flicks. I can’t remember what the first one I saw was, and I don’t remember the first time I read Ian Fleming’s novels, but, to date,…
A Redwall Feast: Shrimp & Hotroot Soup, Turnip and Beet Pie, Roasted Apples and Cordial
I grew up on books. Fantasy books, specifically. We had no video games in my house, and weren’t generally allowed to watch much television, but all read voraciously, me, especially. I read everything — classic fiction, Victorian novels, science fiction, encyclopedia entries — and it all seeped in, taught me things, but few ever taught…
TGIFeminism: Bad Feminism, Good Feminism
Welcome back to our weekly installment of feminist news, updates, and resources! Did you know that the reason why Jennifer Lawrence is paid less than her male co-stars is not because of sexism or the social construct that women need to seem “nice” and avoid creating conflict? According to this article by Elisaveta Dolghih, the wage…
Review: Swords of Sorrow – Red Sonja & Jungle Girl #3
Swords of Sorrow: Red Sonja & Jungle Girl #3 Margeurite Bennet (script), Mirka Andolfo (art) Dynamite September 23, 2015 (Disclaimer: This review may contain spoilers and is based on an advanced review copy from Dynamite.)
TGIFeminism: The First!
Welcome to the first edition of TGIFeminism, a new weekly link blog by Laura Harcourt and Megan Purdy. Every Friday we’ll be highlighting feminist issues in culture and politics from all over the world — hard stories, uplifting stories, and food for feminist thought. Thank Goodness It’s Friday, Thank Goodness It’s Feminism Last Sunday, a…
Review: Swords of Sorrow: Red Sonja & Jungle Girl #2
Swords of Sorrow: Red Sonja & Jungle Girl #2 Marguerite Bennett (words), Mirka Andolfo (lines), Vincenzo Salvo (colors), Erica Schultz (letters), Jay Anacleto (cover lines) & Ivan Nunes (cover colors) Dynamite August 26, 2015 In the second issue of Red Sonja & Jungle Girl, Red Sonja and Jana must get down to business fighting off…
