Books
A Short List of Great Resources for Racial Diversity in Young Adult Sci-Fi
This is my last post on the Girls of Color in Dystopia guest blog series. I’ve read nearly 40 books just for this series and was disappointed (but, sadly, not surprised) to realize just how many of them have few to... Read more »
Four Brand New Woman-Created Comics You Should Acquire Immediately
Spring has felt like a blockbuster season for great new comics from my favorite artists.
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Two YA Authors Explore Life After the Bomb
We all know (or should) about the horrific effects of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Authors Ellen Oh and Julianna Baggott both draw from this sickening point in history to explore even more dystopic aftermaths of post-bomb life.
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Marvel Debuts a New Series: The All-Women X-Men
For months, I eagerly awaited the arrival of Marvel’s all-women series X-Men #1. I wasn’t sure what to expect: would the all-woman series be marketed as a comic for girls or just... Read more »
Racial Diversity in Nickelodeon's Golden Age
To anyone being raised in the 90s, whether as a kid or teenager, the new book ... Read more »
Race & Body Issues in Nalo Hopkinson's "The Chaos"
When I first picked up Nalo Hopkinson’s The Chaos last summer, I thought, “Finally! A book with a young woman of color as the protagonist!” Of course... Read more »
Star Trek Into Feminism: Three Ways the Sci-Fi Series Needs to Change
Star Trek has a reputation.
For almost fifty years, the disempowered and the marginalized and the outcasts have held up Star Trek as a show that said, “This is what we can aspire to: a humanity that has evolved beyond inequality and oppression”. The show presents a vision of Earth that has moved... Read more »
The Race of Khan: Whitewashing in the New Star Trek Film
Star Trek: Into Darkness came out this weekend, and like any good Trekkie, I was eager to see the film. And although I came away from doing so feeling satisfied, there was one thing that stuck in my craw.
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The Virtues of Watching Feminist Porn With Strangers
Watching porn in an auditorium filled with people helped me take a critical look at my sexuality.
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Send in the Clones: Two YA Novels' Treatment of Race, Gender, and Cloning
People of color are often seen as the exceptions in predominantly white societies’ mass media, like US literature. Let’s look at race and gender in two dystopic young adult scenarios in which the exceptional group is not people of color, but clones they’ve created.
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