Wonder Woman News
Nice piece at the History of BDSM site summarizing my arguments about WW and bondage.
On HU
Featured Archive Post: Sarah Shoker on high fantasy as subversive literature.
Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics from mid 1948.
Petar Duric on the Sly Cooper games and class hierarchy.
Chris Gavaler on comics inking and Henry James.
On Xasthur and the circle of metal.
A short piece on loving to hate/hating to love Mandy Moore.
Me on Stendahl Syndrome and never getting out of the patriarchy.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At Slate I wrote about Jojo Moyes and romance with a sad ending (and a happy one.
At Playboy
—I interviewed Mistresse Matisse, about her work in sex work activism.
—I wrote about Meryl Streep’s T-shirt and suffragette’s history with racism.
—I wrote about the Kunduz hospital bombing and how atrocities are always going to be part of war (which is why you shouldn’t go to war.)
At Pacific Standard I wrote about Alison Bass’ book Getting Screwed and how laws against sex workers were less harsh in the past than they are now.
At the Rumpus I talked about Percival Everett’s new book and the good and bad of African-American literature’s marginalization.
At Splice Today I wrote about
—how Lawrence Lessig is an idiot.
—A.O. Scott and conventional snobbery.
Other Links
Justin Lehmiller on the relative health of people in monogamous and open relationships.
Tim Sommer on why Kraftwerk should be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame.
Rebecca Thorpe on how rural representatives vote against prison reform to keep jobs in their districts.
The blurb at the end of your Slate article here says you’re “writing a book about the original Wonder Woman comics.” Sooooo, are you writing another one, or is that a typo?
Oh; they must have used the old blurb; it’s been a while since I wrote for them. Thanks for the catch!