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DC-Women-Kicking-Ass Tell DC: Pick Up the Money Sitting on the Table
One of the comments I hear a great deal around the internet is that “girls just don’t like superheroes.” While it’s by no means the majority opinion, it’s something that I run into often enough that it...
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GeekGirlCon is This Weekend…See You There?
Be still my heart! There is actually a convention for us girls now! It’s in Seattle, so those of you on the East Coast have a ways to trek it (haha, I made a geek funny), but there is indeed a...
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The Tipping Point: Girls, Geeks, Sexualization and How It Starts So Young
This winter, I wrote a column called “The Tipping Point,” about how geek and nerd society has reached the point where so many women have become involved that even though the resistance is there,...
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Moments Women in Comics Are Awesome
A page from the Catwoman series by Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke, copyright DC Comics Last week, I wrote a post for GeekMom about Women in Refrigerators: Thirteen Years Later about what’s changed for...
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Dear DC Comics: Why Do You Keep Fridging Me?
So why am I behind a desk again? (Image from Superman Adventures Annual #1, copyright DC Comics) To Whom It May Concern at DC Comics: Usually, I don’t have time to write a letter like this because I’m...
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Wonder Woman Gets Dropped by NBC
Was this picture the downfall of Wonder Woman? (Image: Justin Lubin/NBC) The much criticized, much discussed David E. Kelley version of Wonder Women has been dropped by NBC. There has been a lot of...
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GeekGirlCon is This Weekend…See You There?
Be still my heart! There is actually a convention for us girls now! It’s in Seattle, so those of you on the East Coast have a ways to trek it (haha, I made a geek funny), but there is indeed a...
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The Tipping Point: Girls, Geeks, Sexualization and How It Starts So Young
This winter, I wrote a column called “The Tipping Point,” about how geek and nerd society has reached the point where so many women have become involved that even though the resistance is there,...
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Congrats to Young Women Artists! Part Five
Photo used with permission Kelsie Ladd is the second oldest in her family of artists. She is fifteen years old and was kind enough to answer my questions about the Womanthology book and herself. How...
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Wonder Woman: The Comic Needs To Go Back To Feminist Roots
Wonder Woman by Cliff Chiang, from her current series, copyright DC Comics I originally wrote this article during the time that Gail Simone was writing the Wonder Woman monthly comic. Since then,...
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The Cliffs of Insanity: Internet Bullying
Wonder Woman #25 cover by Aaron Lopresti, copyright DC Comics Welcome to this week’s adventures climbing the cliffs of insanity. This week was a banner one for the internet, as a former DC editor who...
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The Cliffs of Insanity: Cake Tastes GOOD
Hello, gorgeous. Where have you been all my life? photo © Marvel Entertainment Welcome to this week’s adventures climbing the cliffs of insanity. In the past week, I suffered through a nasty winter...
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Passion and History in ‘She Makes Comics’
Image by Respect! Films Being a geek is becoming more and more mainstream. Yet there are still stereotypes of what makes a geek a “geek.” Being a comic book fan is a quintessential sign, and often...
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DIY Black Widow Fix for My Daughter: #WeWantWidow Too
I am sure you have all seen the hashtag #WeWantWidow going around, imploring Marvel to include more of the Black Widow character not only in merchandising, but to the collective Avengers movie...
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Geek Speaks..Fiction by Erica Heflin
Erica Heflin, photograph copyright Erica Heflin Today’s guest writer is Erica Heflin. A classic geek, comic book and children’s fiction writer, Erica J. Heflin maintains a questionable degree of sanity...
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