fantasy
Safe and Seen: Leave Potter Nostalgia behind in Favor of Trans Authors
It’s heartbreaking to learn that one of your icons is transphobic.
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Amanda Leduc and Fantasy Authors Challenge the Trope of “Broken” Disabled People
Fairy tales and their contemporary counterparts—superhero tales, science fiction, fantasy—shape our collective ideas about what it means to be powerful and beautiful.
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No Need for Superheroes: "A Wrinkle In Time" Shows Black Girls How To Save Themselves
Black children don’t have to be endowed with mutant powers to be inherently good.
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Get Out: 9 Black Horror Classics That Will Keep You Up At Night
Get Out isn’t an anomaly.
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20 years of Harry Potter: The Bitch Crew Remembers Their First Time at Hogwarts
Happy birthday, Harry Potter!
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Whitewashing Death Note: Hollywood's Unabashed Bleaching of Anime Continues
Netflix, in whitewashing a series so popular that it appealed to even non-weeaboos, is encouraging white audiences to remember the characters how they want to, rather than how they were actually written.
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2016 Reading Challenge: 50 Books by Women of Color
If you don’t seek out new voices, it’s easy to fall into reading books primarily, if not solely, by white authors.
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Holy Tesseracts! Ava DuVernay Will Direct "A Wrinkle in Time" Film
Disney is producing the film based on the beloved science-fantasy series, which centers on protagonist Meg Murry.
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Rewriting Reality: A Forthcoming Speculative Fiction Anthology Asks Transgender Authors to Imagine New Worlds
It’s been a helter-skelter year for sci-fi and geekdom.
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