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On HU
Featured Archive Post: Subdee on Saint Young Men, hipster Jeuss and hipster Buddha.
Joy Putney on the Wicked Witch of the West as superhero.
Tyler Wenger on Superman and Christ.
R.M. Rhodes on Vasari, Kandinsky, narrative art and comics.
Isaac Butler on Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman” and 9/11.
Robert Stanley Martin has an exhaustive history of Steve Gerber’s struggles with Marvel over legal control of Howard the Duck. You can find documents relating to the post here.
Qiana Whitted on Joel Christian Gill’s Strange Fruit and the representation of racist speech in comics.
Chris Gavaler on poet Tim Seibles, Blade, and race.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At the Atlantic I had a post about the Elliot Rodger shootings and building masculinity on misogyny.
I was interviewed about the essay on HuffPost Live and also on Take Two.
Also at the Atlantic I wrote about the Great Greene Heist and how we need more diverse mediocre children’s books as well as more diverse great ones.
At Salon I have a list to prove that 2000s R&B was the greatest music ever.
At Splice Today I wrote about:
— how the Orange is the New Black TV show jettisons the memoir’s political commitment for cheap thrills.
— the cover of the Great Green Heist and seeing and not seeing race.
At the Chicago Reader
— I preview the CAKE Chicago Comics Expo, which is happening right now as you read this.
— I have a brief review of orchestral indie folksters Mother Falcon.
Other Links
Mary McCarthy on living out her stripper fantasies, very briefly.
Amanda Hess on how misogyny is bad for everyone.
Eloise James on the stigma against romance novels.
Jonathan Bernstein on why ideological political parties are a bad thing.
Today is 5/31/14, not 3.
Eh, so it is. Thanks.
The Atlantic piece is great.
Thanks! I was surprised at how much positive feedback it got.
You’d be surprised by how few people managed to account for the role of misogyny in male-on-male anger and violence. There was a lot of binary pontificating on ideology and dim causal argument blaming this or that forum or activist group, all of which was undermined by the opposite, equally dim pontificating and speculation about mental health and individual choice. The notion that all this stuff might be somehow interconnected was lost on most commentators. With reasonable voices in such short supply, I’m not at all surprised that the article was well received.