On HU
Featured Archive Post: Mette Ivie Harrison on Bella as a Mormon goddess in Twilight.
Me on how shirtless Henry Cavill will seduce you to the good.
Julia Serano on why gender isn’t performance.
Nora Olsen on the history of YA.
Virgin talks to virgin, a discussion of male and female virginity.
Rahawa Haile on Godzilla, the emotionally reticent engine that could.
Michael A. Johnson on empathy and iconicity in comics.
Orion Martin on figuring out how to get from panel to panel in comics.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At the Atlantic
— I argue that OITNB is unadventurous sexually and politically compared to the exploitation film Caged Heat.
— I esplain why men should be feminists.
—I argued that YA books can be complex by talking about Stacey Donovan’s Dive
— I interviewed Judy Y. Chu about her book When Boys Become Boys, gender, and childhood development.
At Salon:
—I had a list of musicians who were still making decent music after 40 years.
—I talked about She-Hulk and the problems with hoping for more female superheroes.
I had two really fun pieces on Splice Today. I wrote about:
—the new album by Bok Bok and how it’s just a future past projection of Prince, James Brown, and Louis Jordan
—how my ten year old decided to start sleeping with us again.
Other Links
Osvaldo Oyala with a two-part essay on the X-Men Days of Future Past: Part One;
Part Two.
Interesting Huffpost Live conversation on the YesAllWomen hashtag and minority women
Melissa Gira Grant on Somaly Mam and prostitution rescue fantasies.
Noah, to be clear, you want me to read Stacey Donovan’s “Dive” and not Stacey Donovan’s “Zalman King’s Red Shoe Diaries: Forbidden Zone.” Because I’m willing to try either.
I think it’s possible that there are two different Stacey Donovan’s…..
Nope, same woman. I suppose, in the name or research, I’ll just have to work my way though the corpus. :-)
I think Amazon has them listed under the same author…but I think that’s not necessarily accurate.
The X-Men Osvaldo link doesn’t seem to work. Just got home from the movie, so I was curious.
Argh; sorry; should be fixed.
Ah, Noah, you’re squeezing all the smiles out of my already-only-marginally-amusing aside. ;^)
They’re the same. I wonder what pushes people out of the YAL business. Limitless reasons, I’m sure, but Nora’s post raised a number of business- and marketing-related questions.
I’ve been binge-watching OITNB Season 2, and I just came across another sign of the creators’ lack of political interest. In one of the flashbacks, the left-wing nun talks about traveling to Nicaragua in the 80s with a guy who wants to OVERTHROW the Sandinistas. Apparently, no one who works on the show realized that the Sandinistas were on the left and the Contras were on the right.
Hah.
I need to watch it in the hopes of writing about it and getting paid…but Christ I don’t want to. 13 more hours of cutesy sit-com crap masquerading as edgy political commentary — I don’t know that I can hack it.
Yeah, I’ll admit that it’s not so great, but I got sucked in. There are a couple of interesting touches, like former villains becoming sympathetic and the suggestion that the warden sees herself as a liberal reformer. Anyway, I wasted my whole weekend on Piper and her friends.
NOAH just UNFRIENDED me FOR NO REASON on FACEBOOK! What a WEIRD WORLD!
Hey Darius…I don’t think I did? Facebook confuses me, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t….