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Friday Links’ Eyes Are Up Here
From the Mary Sue: Does the Marvel Cinematic Universe Play to the Female Gaze? Well sure, sometimes. Most TV action shows are learning this lesson too – why else do Arrow & Dig whip their shirts...
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Friday Links is Blue and Gold
The news of the week as far as I’m concerned is the return of Ted Kord as Blue Beetle, my all-time favourite male superhero, to DC Comics. And yeah, Booster’s coming too. I am officially going to start...
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Friday Links is Still a Feminist in case you were wondering
So this has been the week of Emma Watson, who gave an impassioned speech at the UN (full transcript here) about the responsibility of men to support and promote gender equality. The #HeForShe campaign...
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Friday Links is a Small Business
Yes there will be a Wonder Woman movie. Still thinking through my thinks about this one. But it’s well overdue, so… Hark! a Vagrant has updated this week with a great piece on the noir trope of the...
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Friday Links is Kissing Under the Mistletoe
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these! That means some of the links aren’t terribly recent but they are all things that caught my attention. No Award has put up their Holiday Gift Giving...
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Friday Links is Going Retro
Since Christmas we’ve been embracing the joys of the 1966 Batman series, with its stately Wayne Manor and Bruce’s obsession with Dick’s education, and Aunt Harriet sneaking off to find out nightclub...
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Friday Links Has Many Companions
Companion Piece, the new ‘Chicks Dig’ essay collection from Mad Norwegian Press, has just announced its official Table of Contents. Edited by a wonderful assortment of Lizes (L.M. Myles of the Verity!...
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Friday Links Are Hiding in Plain Sight
I love that people send me links to articles about Roman women turning out to be extraordinary! In this case, a scholar of Trajan’s Column is talking about the relevance of female figures on the relief...
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Friday Links is Batty About You
Is Valentines Day even a thing in Australia? My 5 year old is weirdly obsessed with it. Me, I love the geeky Valentines that pop up at this time of year (Pinterest and Tumblr, what did we do before...
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Friday Links Don’t Own Me
Our family has been Batman-obsessed since my honey received the entire Batman 1966-68 box set on DVD for Christmas. My five year old is deeply attached to Julie Newmar to the point that she howls with...
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Friday Links is a Secret Princess Story
I haven’t watched Jupiter Ascending, but I have been fascinated by the meta commentary around about whether it’s a bad film or not, and whether it’s an anti-feminist film or not, and so on. The Fangirl...
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Friday Links is a Prime Number!
37 is a prime number, right? It’s my birthday which makes it very easy to remember that a year ago, I launched the Musketeer Space project. Since then I’ve written and published 52 chapters of the...
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Friday Links Directed Twilight & All She Got Was This Cupcake
It’s Friday! This week, I’m excited about my new short story publication “Fake Geek Girl” in the Australian Review of Fiction, and also my new author newsletter which you can sign up for here. Next...
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Friday Links Rides With Lady Justice
It’s been a week full of rainbows. Thanks to the US Supreme Court bringing in equal marriage, Australian politicians are finally acknowledging that it might be worth asking if that’s what our country...
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Where Have All The Friday Links Gone
My Fridays are so much more jam-packed than they used to be so Friday Links have fallen by the wayside. Whoops! I have so many juicy bits and pieces saved up, though, I had to do one today. Judith Tarr...
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Friday Links Can Temper Steel
I was fascinated by this article about a trans woman’s history with the art of blacksmithing – how she originally used it as a kind of ‘free masculinity points card’ to make herself seem like a less...
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Friday Links Loves The Gallifreyan Shopping Network
20 years on (wow), the Mary Sue looks at some of the ways that Xena: Warrior Princess changed television. Also, a message from Lucy Lawless. Xena is the definitive best. Thank goodness for my DVD...
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Friday Links is Coming Up Tansy
Because I’m lazy, this week’s links are all things I should have blogged about this week. Crowdfunding now! And Then: The Great Big Book Of Awesome is at Indiegogo. I really want this book to go ahead...
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Friday Links Has Feelings About Frankenstein
Sady Doyle went off on a magnificent Twitter rant aimed at the director who thought the original Frankenstein novel was boring – she lays down some important lit crit and historical context about Mary...
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Friday Links is Holding Out For A Hero
It’s been all Jessica Jones all week for me! Here are this week’s episode reviews, which cover Episodes 6-11: Jessica Is Her Own Worst Enemy Jessica Jones Wants You To Do The Hero Thing Jessica Jones...
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