Costuming is important in art. Clothing is more immediately communicative than body language, and art communicates. For example, Lana Del Rey’s video for her 2012 release “National Anthem.” It’s all Jackie & JFK pastiche. Towards the very end, there’s that last ride recreated, and Jackie/Lana has on the pink suit. WRONG. She wears goldenrod. Her hat…
The Weight of the Feminist World: Lexi Alexander Will Not Direct Wonder Woman
Last month Warner Bros. announced that they were seeking a female director for the upcoming Wonder Woman project. Geeks everywhere began dream-casting this potential director, and Lexi Alexander‘s name came up on a lot of these lists. Alexander has six director credits on IMDB, the best known of which is Punisher: War Zone—a 2008 adaptation of Marvel’s…
Game Review: Remember Me is Not to be Forgotten
Meet Nilin. She is the star of DONTNOD’s 2013 video game Remember Me, but you may never have gotten to meet her if DONTNOD had conformed to the close-minded vision of some major gaming companies. The fact that Nilin was a woman meant that when the game was shown to potential publishers, many were discouraged…
Concrete Park and Art: Puryear Purloins Painters’ Perfections
It was the cover that caught me. Concrete Park: You Send Me Tony Puryear and Erika Alexander Dark Horse Comics October 1st, 2014 Talking to Bleeding Cool about his “artist’s journey,” Tony Puryear, illustrator and co-writer of Concrete Park, said: I majored in art at Brown [University], loving Gauguin but doing very indulgent, Morris Louis-inspired color field paintings….
#WWACWarriors: Game Developer Brianna Wu on Motorcycles, Fitness, and Being True to Yourself
Brianna Wu. She’s been in the news. Wu is a game developer (Giant Spacekat’s 2014 Revolution 60 is raking in the positive reviews), podcaster, advocate for women in tech, and unapologetic leader in legal proceedings against GamerGate. I first came across Brianna Wu via a Twitter link to a piece in which she discussed her role as employer…
Women Destroy Science Fiction Part 1: Original Fiction
Women Destroy Science Fiction is a special edition of Lightspeed Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to fantasy and science fiction. It is entirely written, edited, and illustrated by women, and was funded by a very successful Kickstarter. Women Destroy was put together because too many of these authors had heard people say that women don’t…
Showdown: Anita Sarkeesian vs. Stephen Colbert
Last night, Feminist Frequency‘s Anita Sarkeesian teased us with a little tweet. pic.twitter.com/nE0gwkx5Sh — Feminist Frequency (@femfreq) October 29, 2014 That’s right. Anita Sarkeesian appeared on last night’s episode of The Colbert Report. The gaming industry scandal has already made it to the mainstream media, but now that Stephen Colbert has his fingers on it,…
Felicia Day is Disappointed In You, #GamerGate, And You Proved Her Right
Last night, Felicia Day — creator of The Guild and all around awesome person — posted a gentle I’m Not Mad, I’m Just Disappointed to members of #GamerGate. Her post is thoughtful, sympathetic, and focused not on the hideous bile spewing from every orifice of the #GamerGate monster, but on the disappointment she felt in herself…
The Power of Tank Girl: One Girl’s Personal Diary
Are you ready for some TANK GIIIIIRL? Many of you may have been born ready. Many of you may know her of old. But if you’re new? No probs. That just means you’re lucky, cos the tank’s full (of comics), and the night is long. Tank Girl is a girl—a woman, in my reading, but…
Baldwin-faced Misogynist: Please Don’t Publish Mr. Gamergate’s Book, Dark Horse
I don’t know if you know this about us, but neither Megan nor I have any time for Firefly. How many times have I bent her ear about the truly absurd & terrible poster for Serenity? So many times! So you’d think I’d be all pleased about an opportunity to spread my seeds of hate….
Karen Abbott’s New “Women’s Magazine” About the Civil War
Karen Abbott is the author of Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for America’s Soul (2007), American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee (2010), and most recently Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy. She is a well-received author who focuses on nontraditional women in history. Basically, she’s…
You Wanted a Movement? #StopGamerGate2014
Yesterday afternoon, Utah State University was sent anonymous threats of violence. “Feminists have ruined my life,” the man claimed. He would shoot up the university, targeting women, especially feminists, if Anita Sarkeesian was allowed to give a planned talk on sexism in video games. The talk was cancelled. To be clear: I didn't cancel my USU…
