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Reader, I’ve been remiss. When I started the Badass Female Project, I wrote about trying not to read so many things written by white men. I did a pretty good job finding badass female protagonists written by female creators. But I failed to dig in to some of the most compelling examples out there— work... Continue Reading →
SPOILER ALERT: The Testaments I wrote about “June”/Offred before. Now, in The Testaments, set 15-ish years after the main narrative of The Handmaid’s Tale, we have a trio of female narrators (and I could write about any of them, TBH). But the one I want to talk about is Daisy (or Jade, or Nicole). Daisy is living... Continue Reading →
“I create dystopia in literary forms. I leave it to the government to create the real ones.” SAID MARGARET ATWOOD, AT A RECENT LECTURE AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
Yet my thirst for smash-the-patriarchy feminist literature persisted. I’ve talked about prioritizing women creators of novels and movies— but you know where else female voices are still pretty consistently drowned out? Comics. And that’s where Bitch Planet comes in.
RBG. She’s a real-life figure, but now with her own documentary, biopic, workout book, fan-bio, and iconography, in addition to her legal scholarship, she’s a bona-fide phenomenon. What makes her stand out?
Meg Murry is an early (1962!) female sci-fi heroine of children’s literature: Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is a true classic. I remember reading this book as a kid and really loving it, but I didn’t remember it as science fiction. Yet it clearly is. To me, that suggests how much it succeeds. And this... Continue Reading →
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