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Is Wonder Woman Too Muscular for the Silver Screen?

Movies post by Holly Derr on June 12, 2013 - 4:40pm; tagged Avengers, comics, she-hulk, superheroines, Wonder Woman.

She Hulk comic cover An old issue of wonder woman with the titular lady riding a horse

This is a dark summer for geek girls. Though superhero and comic book-based films are all the rage these days, it’s male crime-fighters who get all the attention: there are no films starring female superheroes on the horizon.

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Why Do People Keep Calling my Sexuality "Noble"?

Sex and Sexuality post by Hanna White on June 12, 2013 - 1:40pm; tagged asexuality, movies, romance, sex.

When I was 12, I was in an abstinence-only sex-ed program where I learned that I should only have sex with someone to whom I was married. Then, in high school, some of my friends and I decided that premarital sex might be okay as long as it was with someone we were really, really in love with.

Now, most of my friends have decided to simply have sex with whomever they choose. But I haven’t.

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On Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup

Bitch HQ post by Hannah Siobhan ... on June 12, 2013 - 9:26am; tagged ENDA, gender-neutral bathrooms, Las Vegas, lesbian history, trans feminism, You Can Touch My Hair.

Happy Wednesday Bitch readers! Here's what on our radar today:

Progress! Multnomah County, Oregon becomes one of the first in the nation to require gender-neutral bathrooms in all new construction projects. [Oregon Live]

In Las Vegas, a cop sexually assaults a woman then arrests her for protesting. [8newsnow]

Lady-loving ladies: Autostraddle presents 150 years of epic photos. [Autostraddle]

Why the feminist movement needs to center a trans feminist take on gender, and recognize that woman ≠ vagina. [Feministing]

You Can Touch My Hair: a recent public art exhibit in New York City brings attention to the hair-touching phenomenon and its troubling, racist history. [Racialicious]

There are only 16 states in the US where you can't get fired for being transgender, but the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) could change that if passed this year. [Huffington Post]

Stay tuned!

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"Queer is Hardly Just Who You Sleep With": Q&A with Masha Tupitsyn

Books post by Jessica Hoffmann on June 11, 2013 - 3:51pm; tagged art, gender roles, queer.

Artist Masha Tupitsyn and the cover of her new book, Love Dog, which is white with an abstract photo
Masha Tupitsyn writes about film, feminism, love, and being human in a media-drenched culture. Her new book, Love Dog, is a multimedia print version of a one-year blog project on love. The text is interspersed with film stills, URLs for movie clips and music videos, and more.

Love Dog feels like (one version of) what a book should be right now—a print text that's constantly in conversation with other texts and people and mediums.

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The Rise (and Periodic Decline) of Women in American Comedy

Women Aren't Funny post by Gabrielle Moss on June 11, 2013 - 1:09pm; tagged women in comedy.

the cover of "we killed" featuring many female comedians

Though the media seems to “discover” women in comedy once every few years, the truth is that they’ve been there from the beginning. From early stand-ups like Phyllis Diller and improv pioneers like Elaine May, through today’s breakout television stars like Mindy Kaling, women have played a crucial part in every era of modern American comedy.

Yael Kohen’s comprehensive oral history We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy (which comes out in paperback this October, with a new introduction by Kohen) follows a vast and varied cast of over 150 comedians, writers, actors, directors, and others, who together provide a definitive look at the lives, careers, successes, and struggles of female comedians in America.

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