Tag: We Are No Birds

When I was a child, one of my fondest Christmas pastimes was sitting down with my brother to "ooo and ahh" over the Toys R Us Holiday Catalog (known also as "The Big Book"). This was no weekly circular ad: this baby clocked in at eighty to a hundred pages ... Read More

In my third column on Wonder Woman, I wrote that "I was never really interested in superheroes as a kid," mostly because the superhero genre contained, in my opinion, nothing but "a bunch of beefy men beating each other up." I still hold true to the original intent of my ... Read More

Since its inception, vampire fiction has incurred a great deal of criticism. Like any category of genre fiction, vampire fiction has been derided as not “real” literature and nothing more than sensational pulp. The genre has been characterized as immoral and rife with sexual eroticism, containing nothing of literary merit ... Read More

I’ll be honest. I was never really interested in superheroes as a kid. Comics were something that boys read, and besides, they were all a bunch of beefy men beating each other up anyway, so what was I really missing? As I came of age, so too did superheroes, it ... Read More

In Western society, we love binaries. Whether we’re talking about gender (man/woman), sexuality (straight/gay), race (white/black), or even pets (dog/cat), we love being able to sort things as either one thing or the other with no in-between. It makes everything simpler. If you aren’t one thing, then you’re the other, ... Read More

What does it mean to be a feminist? It’s a question you’ve likely heard before, perhaps several times. Perhaps you’ve even asked it yourself. Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines feminism as “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes.” A feminist, then, would be someone who believes in ... Read More