Crowd Funder of the Week: Nerd Out App
Looking to meet new people to share your nerdy interests? Missing out on nerd-related events in your area because you learned of them too late? Michelle “Elle” Jensen has a proposed solution for your...
View ArticleRad Women Writers You Should Be Reading Now, Part 1: Experimental Prose
Last weekend I was hanging out with the ladies, trudging from one bar to another arm in arm like a miniature dyke march, when I was reminded of something I hadn’t really thought about since college. I...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Zombies on Bicycles
I love a good zombie story. I also love a good science fiction story. Put ’em together, throw in a bicycle and what do you get? Pedal Zombies! Pedal Zombies is a collection of feminist stories that...
View ArticleI’m Loving: Phil Hester and John McCrea’s Mythic
While I am primarily a Marvel reader, every now and then a non-Marvel comic will catch my eye and interest. Right now, that comic is Mythic, a new series by author Phil Hester and artist John McCrea...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week! Strange Wit: Resurrection of a Female Legend
You ever sit in your English class or peruse lists of classics, wondering where all the women writers are? There are a great deal many of them which male-written history has forgotten, but the Strange...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Comare, the Other Woman
Illustrator Ashley St. Lawrence and writer Mario Candelaria, are looking to fund the first issue of a six part mini set in mid-century Los Angeles. Comare is a jazzy, stylish romance comic with edge....
View ArticleThe Best and Worst Boarding Schools in YA
August is coming to an end, and even though it’s been a few years since I’ve had the perversely strange pleasure of picking out new folders and pens, I’m thinking about school. I went to schools of...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Couri Vine
Couri Vine is a new kid’s comic Kickstarter from all-woman team of Leah Lovise and Vanessa Shealy, with colouring by Indigo Rael, and it’s pretty darn cute. The comic takes place on the Moon, where the...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Adult Coloring Books
Were you that kid, too—did your parent know exactly how to get you out of their hair, and all it involved were colored pencils and a book full of empty line drawings? Were you that kid who disdained...
View ArticleI’m Loving Super Junior’s Devil!
Two weeks ago, I fell into a Super Junior sized hole in the shape of their latest single: Devil. I’ve never really listened to K-Pop (Korean Pop music) prior to this and have only had limited contact...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back
Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back is a comics anthology by fourteen Indian women. The 162 page anthology contains personal reflections on and reactions to the 2012 gang rape of a Delhi medical...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Dates! An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction
Dates! An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction is about positive representations of queer people in history — dating! Miserable Queers of History is a trope that too often dominates queer art and...
View ArticleI’m Loving: Hamilton’s Original Broadway Cast Recording
I have emotions for Alexander Hamilton. That’s not really a sentence I ever expected I’d have a reason to say, but actor-composer Lin-Manuel Miranda has a way of swinging the unexpected into one’s...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: The SEA is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia
Retro-futurism can be anachronistic fun for the whole family, so you’d think steampunk would be a good time for all. But the big issue with the sci-fi sub-genre is its often white-centric stories,...
View ArticleKickstarter of the Week: Eyecatcher the Smart Bracelet
“The Smart, Large-Display, Super-Charged Wearable” is how Eyecatcher is taglined. This smart bracelet is not only a fashion accessory, but also a practical item that allows users to design and select...
View ArticleI’m Loving Paranormal Shows
Probably since my obsession with The X-Files in the 90’s, I’ve loved all the paranormal shows on TV. I will pretty much watch any of them and over the past few years, the number of these shows has...
View ArticleRecommended Reading: 5 Books to Read When You’re Newly Unemployed
Whoops, you’re unemployed! How did that happen? Well, however this particular turn of events came about, the fact of the matter is that you now have a lot more free time than you had before. Sure, you...
View ArticleBefore there was Kamala Khan there was Scout Montana: Sophie Campbell & Spike...
Back in 2010, Sophie Campbell published Shadoweyes, a riveting dystopian science fiction superhero comic about a young woman of color, Scout, who is unexpectedly imbued with superpowers and sets to...
View ArticleShort Story Collections You May Have Missed in 2015
It took me a long time to really appreciate the short story. I hated reading them in high school and university, and was convinced my time would be better spent on novels. People would give me...
View ArticleX-Files Gift Guide for the Holidays, or Just in Celebration of the Revival
If the 2016 X-Files revival in January isn’t enough justification for you, Ginnis and Kate have cobbled together a holiday gift guide for the X-philes in your life, including you because you are in...
View Article