Over the past decade, the reign of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” have shown that comedy news shows just might be America’s favorite way to digest politics.
In an issue that will go on sale in August, Archie Comics will feature a kiss between two openly gay characters, Kevin and his boyfriend Devon. The gay kiss (because just like “gay marriage,” it can’t be just a “kiss,” right?) shows how much the 72-year-old Archie Comics company has evolved amid America’s cultural changes.
Nerds are the kings of our culture these days—but what is a nerd, exactly, and who gets to call themselves one? This show digs into gender, race, and nerdery with an organizer of GeekGirlCon, comedy nerd Phoebe Robinson, music nerd turned Yale lecturer Allyson McCabe, and (of course!) a rigorous discussion of feminism in Star Trek with two hardcore Trekkies. Listen in!
This episode of Popaganda is sponsored by She Bop!
It's almost Friday! Here's all the feminist news on my radar today.
• A record number of American women—40 percent—are their family's sole or primary breadwinners, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. [Pew]
• Check out the new queer webseries "Little Horribles," which just premiered and is full of queer characters dealing with the awkwardness of everyday life. [Autostraddle]
• Maria Popova reviews They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldier in the Civil War, with stunning photographs of Civil War era women who dressed as men to fight in the army. [Brain Pickings]
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For months, I eagerly awaited the arrival of Marvel’s all-women series X-Men #1. I wasn’t sure what to expect: would the all-woman series be marketed as a comic for girls or just another showcase of all the great female X-Men characters?
Like millions of Americans reared in the nineties, I grew up rather mindlessly consuming Nick’s cartoons and teen sitcoms.Slimed author Mathew Klickstein prods viewers like me to revisit the influential channel's beloved shows with an eye on racial diversity, gender dynamics, and the process behind creating each show.
Two years ago, on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains, I saw a white couple at a restaurant with their Asian daughter. Though her father told her to quit staring, I felt the girl’s eyes on me all through the meal. I smiled at her, feeling a strong sense of kinship, a pang of sympathy. As a child, whenever I saw another Asian person – which I hardly ever did – I used to stare, too, hungry for the sight of someone, anyone, who looked like me.
This new installment in artist Erika Moen's entirely NSFW comics series about sex toys takes a knotty turn. While Erika recover from too much traveling and sickness, her awesome, talented friend Lucy Bellwood fills in with a gorgeous tutorial about rope bondage!
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