On HU
Featured Archive Post: Mahendra Singh illustrates Wallace Stevens.
For Thanksgiving I posted on America’s participation in Indonesian genocide.
I posted my complete 50 Shades/Cthulhu mash up. Enjoy the thrashing bosoms and heaving tentacles.
I sneer at the design of one page in Maus.
Emily Thomas on what the Nao of Brown gets wrong about mental illness.
Chris Gavaler on chess for androids and evil geniuses.
I explain what I think I’m doing with HU.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At the Atlantic:
—I talk about the documentary At Night I Fly and whether art is a salve for prison.
—I review Homefront and talk about the link between home and violence.
At Splice I argue that a documentary about working dogs in Iraq leaves out some things.
Other Links
Tucker Stone and Abhay Khosla on harassment in the comics industry.
Laura Hudson on harassment in the comics industry.
Ashley Fetters on short guy, tall woman in the Hunger Games.
Mikki Kendall on black women, feminism, and concern-trolling Michelle Obama.
The disclaimer was my favorite part of the Stone/Khosla piece. That’s not a knock on what followed… I just really liked the disclaimer.
Anyway, I liked that they managed to implicate the industry as a whole without letting the individuals off the hook.
I’m glad you paired it with the Hudson piece too (since her’s was released earlier in the month).
That was such a good article.
“Tucker Stone and Abhay Khosla on harassment in the comics industry.”
Call the police, a weak little joke’s been beaten to death by two guys with sledgehammers.
It’s a pretty good joke, I think.
i especially liked the disclaimer too — abhay’s a lawyer, right?
the one thing i’d say in response to that article is that those two guys need to look at their own behaviour as well, particularly abhay. he makes a lot of jokes about porn, which doesn’t exactly help make the comics internet a less hostile place for women. (not that that’s on the same level as any of the guys whom they are in no way, and certainly in no legally actionable way, talking about in that article, but it still matters.)
You should maybe mention that on the article comments over there? I bet Abhay would at least think about it.
Comments don’t seem to be enabled on that article.
Abhay maintains an active presence on Tumblr, and I suspect he’d respond if queried. As for Stone, his humor skews dude, but he seems pretty thoughtful on gender issues.
Daniel’s right, no comments — an eminently fucking sensible move given the context.