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Freshly Pressed: “Wibbly-Wobbly Sexy-Wexy: Queer Comic Anthologies”

Posted in Art, Gender, Media, tagged Anything That Loves, comparative geeks, freshly pressed, No Straight Lines, queer comics on 2013/10/20| 1 Comment »

My guest post on Comparative Geeks about queer comic anthologies is freshly pressed today!

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“Wibbly-Wobbly Sexy-Wexy”: Queer Comic Anthologies

Posted in Art, Gender, Race, Visual Culture, tagged American, Anything That Loves, comics, feminism, Gender, graphic novels, LBGT, LBGTQIA, No Straight Lines, queer, queer comics, representation on 2013/10/16| 3 Comments »

I usually focus on Japanese media on this blog, but I did a guest post over on Comparative Geeks today about queer American comic anthologies. Enjoy!

Comparative Geeks

Guest post by Leah of The Lobster Dance, a blog about Japan, gender, media, and culture (with a heavy dose of manga and geekery) and I’ll Make It Myself!, a food blog.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey… stuff. — Doctor Who

“Wibbly-Wobbly, Sexy-Wexy”…: sexuality, like time, can be looked at from a “non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint.” —Anything That Loves, based on a comment at Comic Con

My taste in comics has always run a bit queer*of the center. If a comic has a sword-fighting woman or an androgynous character (or both at once if you please), I’ve probably read it. And much to the horror of misogynist nerds who think nerd girls do it for the ships (and what of it?!), the one thing guaranteed…

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Japan Gender Reader: Sept. 2013

Posted in Culture, Gender, tagged Anything That Loves, dudebro, dwango, j-jobs, japan, joshi-mane, Korea, non-binary sexuality, patriarchy, Self Defense Force, sexism, sociology on 2013/09/29| Leave a Comment »

In this Japan gender reader: Dwango grabs some girls from the steno pool circa 1950 and puts them in tracksuits; how the koseki (family registry) continues to ostracize residents of Japan; and is the patriarchy dead–a qualified NO. Read on!