If there’s one thing the 90s left me as a legacy, it’s an undeniable weakness for boy bands. My tween existence played out against background music from *NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys, and a couple one-hit wonders that ended up on mixtapes I’d make on Sunday afternoon. As I’ve grown up, those Sunday afternoons sometimes involved…
I’m Loving: Alex Winston’s Music and Being
I discovered Alex Winston in 2012 because I am obsessed with Fundamentalist Mormonism. In my limited free time I read anything I can find about this sect of Mormonism. When one branch of information runs out, I turn to Google, which led me to Winston’s song “Sister Wife.” (Content Warning: The following video contains blood…
Get Your Game On Wednesday
Howdy Wednesday, my gaming lovelies! The sun is shining and I’m trying to figure out what my next mobile game should be. If you have any suggestions, shoot them my way in the comments. Video game inspired nails blog Lost in Lacquer is a sweet little blog on nail design with its own section for…
Diversify Tabletop: Finding Diverse Designers Among the d20s
Recently, I noticed a new hashtag pop up on my Twitter feed: #DiversifyTabletop. I took notice because I’ve seen a couple of attempts to make lists of tabletop games made by women, PoC, and members of the LGBTQ community. The assumption is that these type of creators are not as visible as the traditional straight…
Starfish Comic And Gaming Expo: A Con for Special Needs Adult Geeks
As a member of the Texas Creative Community, I get to meet and hear about a lot of awesome and inspiring projects and plans from a variety of creative folk, most of whom identify as geeks. I recently learned about the Starfish Comic and Gaming Expo, a con for special needs adults, from creative geek Walter…
Can’t We Just Call It The Miss Piggy Show: A Review of The Muppets
Have you heard? The Muppets are back. Again. This time they are coming to you during primetime, and competing with shows such as NCIS and Scream Queens. But this isn’t The Muppets Show variety-sketch format of olden days (by olden, I mean 1970s to 1980s). This version of The Muppets will take us into their…
Tales of the Captain Duke Author Rebecca Diem Talks Steampunk, Writing, and the Joys of Airships
My behind-the-scenes job at this year’s Fan Expo Canada didn’t leave me much time to visit the show floor, but in a fortuitous moment, someone from the show floor happened to drop by. This is how I met steampunk aficionado and writer Rebecca Diem and soon after that Clara and the Captain Duke with whom…
Join The Babysitter’s Club: A Review of Kristy’s Great Idea by Raina Telgemeier and Ann M. Martin
The Babysitter’s Club #1: Kristy’s Great Idea Raina Telgemeier/Ann M. Martin Scholastic I, like many other young girls growing up in North America in the late 1990s, identified with a member of the Babysitters Club. Kristy, Mary Ann, Claudia, Stacey, and the rest of the Club were some of the first contemporary literary heroines I…
Screen Daze: Religious Webcomics to Binge On
September is a busy month for Jews. It’s our New Year (l’Shana Tovah!), we go through some redemption, we pray and chant and eat. So religion’s on my mind a bit and I started looking around for religious webcomics as a result. Readers, have any suggestions for me?
Incredible Indie Tuesday: Ignatz & Ron Wimberly Being Amazing Per Usual
The big news of the week is, of course, the winners of the Ignatz Awards that were announced at Small Press Expo (SPX) over the past weekend. All women winners too! What strikes me look at the awards list is how diverse all the winning works are; sure, they were all created by women but…
Feminism Gets Real: An Interview with Kelly Jensen
Call it the power of social media: every day, advocates of diversity, feminism, and intersectionality find their people on networks like Twitter. Librarian and editor Kelly Jensen is just one of the people who have not only found a community on social media, but also created a way to keep those conversations going. She is…
Sex, Drugs, and Being Whole : Welcome to the World of Gangsta
It’s hard being an older fan of manga and anime. Think about the most popular titles: Naruto, Attack on Titan, and Noragami. Do you notice a pattern? About their protagonists maybe? That’s right. They’re teenagers. Even up-and-coming Tokyo Ghoul features young college students. That’s nice and all, but what about those of us who are…
