In case any of you ever wonder why I’m always writing about violence against women in my poetry…
um, because it’s still happening?
http://whedonesque.com/comments/13271
Thanks to Mary Agner for pointing out this particular rant by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
On another, lighter note, Kore Press posts a comic in which Wonder Woman meets a feminist theory grad student:
http://www.korepress.org/WonderWoman.htm
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
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Argh!!! re: Dua Khalil and “Captivity.”
Joss Wheadon’s blog bears reading and rereading. Yes, it will—and should—darken the doorstep of any reader’s subconscious. In fact, it’ll not go away until enough of us put the porch light on.
But will we?
Tamara