On HU

Featured Archive Post: Ng Suat Tong on Joss Whedon’s signature covering (defacing) a comics cover.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics in early 1942: Wonder Woman, Walt Kelly, and cover eye-candy.

I interviewed artist and comics creator John Jennings about race and superhero comics.

Kim O’Connor in praise of The Toast and the worth of unserious things.

Madeleine Gavaler on how Whedon helped her get through high school.

We started our Joss Whedon Roundtable! Index to all posts is here.

Tim Jones on the insufferable cleverness of Cabin in the Woods.

Cédric Le Merrer on how Whedon substitutes violence for politics.

Utilitarians Everywhere

At the New Republic I wrote about restrictions on professor’s speech. Hint: main threat is not liberal students.

At Playboy

—I wrote about the documentary Cam Girlz and how camming is a lot like freelance writing (though with more stigma.)

—I interviewed Vron Ware about her book Beyond the Pale, white women, feminism, and racism.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Art Spiegelman’s crappy New Statesman cover and free speech as speaking for women’s bodies.

—voting reform, and how partisanship is more likely to bring it about than bipartisanship.

And I wrote about the lovely fantasy anthology comic Cartozia Tales for Urban Faiths’ summer reading list.

Other Links

Alyssa Rosenberg on female robots.

Tracy Q. Loxley on what’s wrong with the campus rape discussion.

Jonathan Bernstein on how ignorant citizens can be good citizens.

Britney Cooper on McKinney, black girls, and white “safety.”

Track of the Week

Thought I’d maybe start posting a video every week, because what the hey. I’ve been obsessed with this track by July Talk. Reminds me of the Pixies; not enough things remind me of the pixies.

Wonder Woman News

Natalia Mehlman Petrzela reviews a bunch of Wonder Woman books, including mine, at Public Books.

The Dartmouth student newspaper is confused about the subject of the talk I gave there.
 
On HU

Janell Hobson and the context of global racism.

I am bitter that Paul Krugman gets to write pop culture crit at the NYT.

Should I try to run a patreon to write my book?

Kim O’Connor writes an open letter to Art Spiegelman about the PEN awards and Charlie Hebdo.

James Lamb with a long post on why diverse superheroes are an impossibility.

Chris Gavaler on how the KKK fit the definition of superheroes.

Phillip Smith on Saga and trauma.

Donovan Grant on the possibility of black superheroes.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Guardian I wrote about Wonder Woman, A-Force, and how super sexy may be better than super violent.

At Urban Faith I reviewed Robert Marovich’s history of Chicago gospel.

Jordannah Elizabeth interviewed me to ask me what I think I’m doing, anyway.

At Raivshly I made a list of lesser known torch singers.

At the Reader a little review of Jason Eady, the best country singer out there now.
 
Other Links

Nicole Cliff with a list of books all white men own.

Dianne Anderson on the demand that Christian bloggers be nice.

Tressie McMillan Cottom on how if academic institutions want their scholars to be public intellectuals, they need to support them when the social media firestorm erupts.
 

 
Wonder Woman News

I am giving a talk at Dartmouth Sat. morning on WW; maybe even as you read this.

Matthew Cheney gave me a really nice review on his blog.

Joan Hilty reviewed my book at the Wellesley Women’s Review of Books.

On HU

Featured Archive Post: James Romberger on Marie Severin.

Me on how the success of Louis Armstrong doesn’t disprove Jim Crow.

Should I do a kickstarter for my next book?

Ibrahim Ineke with a devotional reading of Frank Miller’s Dark Knight.

Aaron Kashtan on whether comics geekdom can become more inclusive.

Chris Gavaler on the Nepal earthquake and superhero Orientalism.

Roy T. Cook on the paradox of comics; reading pictures and drawing words.

Nix 66 on 8 minutes, sex workers, and getting truth from women’s bodies.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Guardian I wrote about how the Black Widow/Hulk romance sucked.

At the Atlantic I reviewed an excellent historical comic about the Civil War.

At Playboy:

—I talked about cell phone’s important but limited role in holding police accountable.

—I reviewed Maya Rodale’s Dangerous Books for Girls, about why people hate romance novels.

—I wrote about how Age of Ultron is a slave narrative and you should root for the robots.

—I wrote about how you can’t have feminist liberation without choice.

At Quartz I reviewed Sam Magg’s Fangirls Guide to the Galaxy.

At Splice Today I wrote about how My dog is dumber than my cat.
 
Other Links

Katherine Cross on choice feminism.

Tara Burns on how sex workers killed 8 minutes.

Juniper Fitzgerald on discrimination against sex workers in academia.

Paul Thomas on the disappointing black Captain America.