Dear Past Amanda (upon your graduation from high school), Hang on to your hat! Setting aside the fact that these are all spoilers, let me tell you what’s going to happen next: You’re going to live in a castle (what?!) and during your extensive trawling of the internet, you’ll find out about these things that are today…
I’m Loving: Féminin/Féminin
Féminin/Féminin is a new web series written and directed by Chloé Robichaud. Think The L Word having a party with The Real L Word in Quebec, but not annoying. The series follows a group of friends, lesbian, bi, and straight, and their various embarrassing and poignant romantic misadventures. Interspersed with the low key dramedy are…
Interview with Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey of the Nelvana of the Northern Lights Kickstarter
Hope Nicholson and Rachel Richey are mere hours away from seeing their Kickstarter campaign to reprint the Canadian WWII-era comics featuring Nelvana of the Northern Lights come to a close. One of the first female superheroes to hit comics, Nelvana was the creation of Canadian artist Adrian Dingle, with connections to Inuit culture and Group…
Nelvana of the Northern Lights: The Kickstarter Project that Warms My Cold, Canadian, Superhero-Lovin’ Heart
The World War II-era comics starring Nelvana of the Northern Lights are being reprinted! She is Canada’s first superhero, and one of the first female superheroes to exist, even pre-dating Wonder Woman by a few months. The project, headed up by Hope Nicholson and Rachael Richey, is being crowdfunded by way of a Kickstarter project….
Avril Lavigne fights a lobster, mourns tie-wearing dog (mumble mumble, lesbian content)
In her new song Rock N Roll Avril Lavigne revisits Sk8er Boi by way of Def Leopard and Joan Jett, and it’s… a pretty limp track, to be honest. It’s a pre-fab hit in waiting, with too-pat girl power exultations, and it’s going to curl up in darkest region of your brain for a month…