This is a new webcomic, and I find the pitch as reported by Karen Healey of Girls Read Comics and They’re Pissed difficult to resist: Also invigorating: Mistress, the new webcomic hosted by Girl-Wonder.org. Author and artist Andrea M. Bell… Read More ›
books & writing
literature, genre, fan-fic, blogging, graphic novels, web-comics etc etc
“Don’t write a poem about rape.”
“Shove It: Part 2” (The Buffaloe Pen) is Julie’s story of having her deeply personal poem about rape rejected by a literary journal editor. But it wasn’t just rejected. The editor, who is obviously a rapist or rapist-in-waiting, wrote her… Read More ›
Quick hit: China earthquake rescue stories in comics
Coco Wang has documented some horrifying, heartbreaking, touching, and even funny China earthquake rescue stories. The stories are presented in the style of a graphic novel, at Paul Gravett’s place. Bring your tissues, and time to compose yourself. My thoughts… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: How to Hoyden Hepburn
Oh, I have enjoyed dipping into this over the last couple of weeks.
Karen Karbo has tapped into the rich vein of enduring fascination with Kate the Great, taking a delightfully fresh approach to a much examined life. She uses quotes and anecdotes from and about Hepburn judiciously and examines the implications with a fond but clarifying eye.
“Any tendency to self-handling at its earliest manifestation will lead the wise mother to at once adopt means for its suppression.”
Another instalment in the 1905 Ladies’ Handbook series! The original post is here. Chapter IV is titled “Sex Physiology and Hygiene“. It’s long, so I’ll break it up into parts. It opens with a passionate plea for early and vigorous… Read More ›
Yesterday’s actual surfing of the Net
From a google alert I follow a link to a blog written by Malaysian student Akmal Azeman and her post Muslims In Another Word which features questions about wearing hijab asked of an Australian high school student by her fellow… Read More ›
Librarything “most often marked unread” books meme
Via willendorf5761 (Who knew there were already 5760 “willdendorf”s on eljay?) What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart… Read More ›
“Thus the disease may be conveyed by promiscuous kissing”
The first Ladies’ Handbook post is here. This instalment, “Syphilis” and “Personal Responsibility”, completes Chapter III: “Outside The Marriage Circle”. [Bold is mine.] I don’t really expect everyone to be as interested in old medical descriptions as I am, but… Read More ›
“…it is not strange that men and women who do not recognise the sacredness of marriage should decide to enjoy what they regard as its pleasures without being bound by its contract.”
Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series: “Chapter III: Outside The Marriage Circle”. The original post is here. The madonna/whore dichotomy is hard to miss in this one. It is the polluted prostitutes that infect promiscuous men, who then carry… Read More ›
Reader question: your pipe dream in print?
Khukuri at “Do you have anything in an aquarium?” discovered this book in a university library: [“Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeeth-Century Caribbean”, B.R. Burg.] Given a fantasy world with unlimited resources and knowledge, and… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 