16-Year-Old Girl Develops Early-Stage HIV Test Canadian high schooler Nicole Ticea has developed a low-cost, early-stage HIV test that has the potential to save and improve lives all over the world. For her efforts, Nicole has won the 2015 Intel Young Scientist Award. Learn more over on A Mighty Girl. Prominent Activist Diana Sacayán the Third Trans…
TGIFeminism: Money Matters and Moana
Announcing Bitch Media Fellowships for Writers Bitch Media has announced a series of three-month fellowships aimed at new writers. Fellowships pay a stipend of $1500 and include mentoring, publication, and access to the Bitch Media library. The program’s goal is to “develop, support, and amplify emerging, diverse voices in feminist, activist, and pop-culture media.” Applications…
Kickstarter of the Week: Dates! An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction
Dates! An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction is about positive representations of queer people in history — dating! Miserable Queers of History is a trope that too often dominates queer art and media — especially Miserable Racialized Queers — so it’s nice to see an anthology dedicated to feel-good stories about queer people in love,…
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…
TIFF 2015: Megan and Ardo Go to the Movies
This year the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) celebrated its 40th anniversary! Megan and Ardo look at how the festival has aged while contemplating regrets, past loves, and this year’s worthwhile movie moments. TIFF is middle-aged. Do you think it’s showing its age or better than ever? Ardo Omer: I haven’t been down at the festival as…
Kickstarter of the Week: Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back
Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back is a comics anthology by fourteen Indian women. The 162 page anthology contains personal reflections on and reactions to the 2012 gang rape of a Delhi medical student. The anthology came together as a result of a comics workshop held in the wake of the massive protests that…
Fan Expo 2015: First Con Photo Diary
This year local Toronto fan and photographer, Stephanie Austin, attended FanExpo with me and documented our time at the con — her first ever! — in photos. Steph and I met up outside the con, had a quick coffee and then headed in with hardly any game plan — we knew that we wanted to document the…
WWAC Reflects On Wes Craven’s Smart Subversive Horror
Wes Craven died August 30th, at 76. During his long career in film he directed over 20 films and wrote even more, many of them revolutionary. With his first film, The Last House On the Left (1972), he joined the wave of New Horror directors like John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper, finding the monstrous in ordinary…
Support WWAC On Indiegogo!
Women Write About Comics is finally crowdfunding and we need your help! We are looking to raise $3000 to turn our calling into a business. Independent comics criticism is an essential part of the comics marketplace: we don’t sell or promote comics but we do give them exposure, critical in-depth attention, and create a space…
Phone Game Etiquette: Want a Second Date?
Look around you—someone is playing a phone game. They’re addictive, often free, and do anything they can to keep you coming back. Companies pour tons of money into marketing them, everything from infiltrating your dating apps to throwing boobs at your face. They are apps disguised as games disguised as apps to get you to be…
Television Comes to TIFF: TV at Film Festivals and the Possibility of a TV Festival That’s Good
This year the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will include a block of television programming and I think that’s weird. Its TV programming, Primetime, includes screenings of Casual (USA) from Jason Reitman, CROMO (Argentina) from Lucía Puenzo and Nicolás Puenzo, Keith Richards: Under the Influence (USA) from Morgan Neville, The Returned (France) from Fabrice Gobert,…
Kickstarter of the Week: Couri Vine
Couri Vine is a new kid’s comic Kickstarter from all-woman team of Leah Lovise and Vanessa Shealy, with colouring by Indigo Rael, and it’s pretty darn cute. The comic takes place on the Moon, where the people of Earth fled in 2330 after destroying the atmosphere of their home world. Couri is an eleven-year-old girl with…