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She Can Fly: b*tches be crazy
LANGUAGE WARNING I’ve never been comfortable with the word “bitch.” It’s one of a couple words that are implicitly “female” that gives me an uncomfortable feeling in my gut, that makes me squirm and...
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She Can Fly: Don’t Be a Baby
(A/N: This post was originally written in December 2014, after the release of Angela: Asgard’s Assassin) Marvel and DC have both upped their game in terms of female-led titles, with each company having...
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She Can Fly: Be Forceful
The View seems to be Marvel’s new platform for announcements regarding female driven titles. As much as it is bizarre, it’s also kind of an awesome tactic. The View’s primary audience is women 30 and...
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She Can Fly: Girls Don’t Read Comics
For years, comic companies sought the much fought over demographic of white men, 18-35. That was the ideal and the goal, and companies stated many times how that was the only readership they were...
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She Can Fly: The Starfire/Raven Dichotomy
I grew up consuming pop media rabidly; the 90s and early 00s was a great time to love cartoons and comics. Anime had started its journey into the mainstream, classic cartoons were easy to find on...
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She Can Fly: Stronger Than Ever
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt once seemed like the show was broken: with its weird, dark premise (a woman decides to live in New York City after being rescued from the underground bunker of a doomsday...
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She Can Fly: By Any Other Name…
Your fandom doesn’t need a name. The desire to name fandoms could be considered derivative of the label-dependent society we live in, but while personally applied labels for gender, sexuality, and...
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She Can Fly: Great Expectations
While Avengers: Age of Ultron had a record setting first weekend, just $19.7 million behind the first Avengers in terms of all-time opening weekend rankings, the movie has also faced a lot of outcry,...
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She Can Fly: Best Foot Forward
It’s no secret that superhero products are marketed towards women. From “Training to be Batman’s Wife” shirts to the lack of Black Widow action figures in the wave of Age of Ultron merchandise, it...
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Seven for 007: The Next James Bond, Brought To You by The Notorious RBG and...
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has said she wants to see an all-female Supreme Court, because, no one questioned when it was all men. Remember that time when M was a man? Of course, M is...
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She Can Fly: What if I Don’t Want to Wear a Metal Bikini?
Like any child born after 1983 (and many born before that), I was raised on a steady diet of Star Wars movies, toys, and games from an early age. I remember watching the original trilogy with my older...
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She Can Fly: Resolutions
New Year is always a time for resolutions. As I get older, my resolutions are more and more becoming nebulous things I should do, as opposed to concrete things I should stop doing. In the spirit of...
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Mhani Alaoui Interview: Dreams of Blue Boots, Orange Blossoms, and Feminist...
Not such a long time ago, in not such a faraway place, and yet a world so completely different, a girl was born. This girl is the heroine of Dreams of Maryam Tair: Blue Boots and Orange Blossoms, a...
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She Can Fly: What’s Truly Outrageous
I watched the Jem and the Holograms movie. And I liked it. The movie wasn’t mind blowing, but it was a sincere coming-of-age story that took cues from what it means to grow up in a world where you can...
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She Can Fly: Oh What a World
Truly, we live in a geek renaissance. Not only is it cool to read comics, play video games, and follow television series with bated breath, but all those things are absolutely in vogue. No longer do...
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She Can Fly: Don’t Need a Cape to be a Hero
Lois Lane is a hero. Lois Lane is a hero, all on her own, without the strength of Superman, or the speed of Flash. Lois Lane is one of the strongest female characters in the DC Universe. Lois Lane is...
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She Can Fly: This Joke isn’t Funny
The Killing Joke has never not been surrounded by controversy. The almost 30 year old graphic novel by infamous author Alan Moore and artist Brian Bolland attempted to portray the Joker as a...
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