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Muslim women in comic books—an interesting post over at Racialicious

sm[art] blog post by Briar Levit, August 21, 2008 - 1:41pm; tagged: comics, dust, Jehanzeb Dar, muslim women, x-men.

Female, Muslim, Mutant: A Critique of Muslim Women in Comic Books, Part 1 of 2 by Racialicous guest contributor, Jehanzeb Dar, was a really interesting read. Check it out!

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The Cold Shoulder

Saving Superheroines from Comic-book Violence
The Cold Shoulder
Article by Shannon Cochran, appeared in issue Super; filed under: Books; tagged: activism, comics, heroes, heroins, misogyny, superheroines, violence.

There’s a new Bat in Gotham City. Like Bruce Wayne, she’s a rich socialite by day and a black-clad vigilante at night. And, also like Bruce Wayne, in both incarnations she’s apt to sweep the ladies off their feet. Kate Kane, the new, revamped Batwoman, isn’t the first lesbian character to debut in the DC Comics universe, but she might have the highest profile. Last June, DC Executive Director Dan DiDio issued a press release saying the move was intended “to get a better cross-section of our readership and the world.”

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Female Bonding

The Strange History of Wonder Woman
Female Bonding
Article by KL Pereira, appeared in issue Hot & Bothered; filed under: Social commentary; tagged: Amazon, bondage, comics, heroes, heroins, lesbian, sapphic, superheroines.

“Bind me as tight as you can, girls, with the biggest ropes and chains you can find!” The woman is smiling in ecstasy, plastered against a large wooden beam, ropes and chains taut against her body, as she begs her captors, a group of jubilant, scantily clad young women, to pull her shackles just a little bit tighter. The girls taunt their captive: “We are, Princess, even you can’t escape these bonds!”

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Drawn from Memory

an interview with Phoebe Gloeckner, artist, storyteller, freaky mama
An interview with Phoebe Gloeckner by Andi Zeisler, Lisa Jervis, appeared in issue Fighting Back; filed under: Art; tagged: autobiography, child abuse, childhood, comics, female artists, sexualization.

“I never intended this book to be published,” writes Phoebe Gloeckner in the introduction to her new collection, A Child’s Life and Other Stories. Perusing these finely drawn, mostly autobiographical comic works, which span twenty years, it’s not difficult to see why its creator might be wary of foisting her stories on a public whose idea of an enjoyable narrative is Titanic. Gloeckner’s unsparing memory and painstakingly detailed pen-and-ink drawings of family dysfunction, childhood cruelty, and queasy sex make for seriously disquieting reading. The book takes us through the years with Gloeckner’s alter ego Minnie, whose childhood is dominated by her overbearing, ogling stepfather and whose adolescence is spent on the streets of San Francisco in a morass of unsavory drugs and even less savory men.

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Scrambled Signals

Rivka Ketzel Solomon reflects on a childhood defined by her parents’ activism, Ms. magazine, and T&A tv
Article by Rivka Ketzel Solomon, Illustrated by Hugh D Andrade, appeared in issue Fighting Back; filed under: Activism; tagged: activism, childhood, comics, family, gender roles, media, second wave, socialization, tv, tv women, why pop culture matters, wonder woman.

When i was growing up in the ’60s and ’70s, it didn’t matter that my parents were some of the earliest feminist leaders on the East Coast, that I grew up watching their activism from up close, or that I saw them live (not just profess) equality between the sexes. It didn’t matter that I was a girl hooked on Ms. magazine from the very first year it was out, that I regularly flipped through my mom’s copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves, or that I ravenously collected Wonder Woman comic books.

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