So there are some issues with women’s portrayal in comics, yes? From more sexy than logical costumes to being completely underused/undervalued, female characters often leave something to be desired. To celebrate the anniversary of (the amazing) Gail Simone’s “Women in Refrigerators” – the idea that female comic book characters were often killed or depowered for [...]

Just as the title says! Our good buds at Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf are extending their submission deadline until next month!
“We are extending the deadline for Issue #6 to FEBRUARY 1st, 2012!
what better new year’s resolution than to submit that comic you’ve been dreamily drawing to Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf?
Submit a comic to Issue #6 [...]

This talk from Chimamanda Adichie reminds me of what we are working for:

- ACP
P.S. The amount of people that think that Africa is a country is alarming and disturbing.

Introducing For the Birds Book Club, BirdWords. Over the summer (and probably continuing afterwards) we are going to choose a title of awesome feminist fiction to read and ask you to read it as well! We’ll post a blog post with our thoughts and invite you to join in the conversation via email, blog comments, [...]