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Heroines Against Misogyny: Why Agent Carter (2013) Matters

I left Agent Carter mourning for the women who didn’t defeat super villains and run international intelligence organizations. I mourned for the women relegated to making coffee and fetching slippers...

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SHUT UP, JANE FOSTER WAS PRETTY GREAT!!1

Can we take a moment to recognize that Thor 2 did a pretty great job of making Jane Foster not suck? In fact, Thor 2 shouldn’t have been “Thor 2: The Dark World”, it should have been “Thor 2: Jane...

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The Delicious Irony of Catching Fire’s Promotional Products

The Capitol has created for itself a playground, a world of decadence and exuberance usually reserved for Ancient Rome and Hedonism Bot. It is cotton candy, brightly colored and lacking any substance....

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Just Call it “X-Men: Days of Future Manpain” Already

The entire point of the comic book plot for Days of Future Past is psychic Rachel Summers sending an adult Kitty Pryde to the past to posses her younger self's body and prevent the pivotal event of...

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Tauriel: The Woman Who Defeated The Love Triangle

What I begrudge is the fact that a love triangle was ever thought necessary. I begrudge that the trope is so prevalent that Evangeline Lilly felt it necessary to speak out against it even before...

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No, Kristen Stewart In A Romantic Version Of 1984 Wouldn’t Destroy The World

Ultimately, I’m more disappointed at the level of knee-jerk disgust at the idea. At the fact that people are still treating Kristen Stewart as a punchline rather than a thinking, feeling person. That...

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The Great Untamed Wilderness of Female Heroes

One of the reasons female characters are said to be so difficult to translate to film is that their character or mythology are harder to nail down. Which shows those people don’t have any business...

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Let’s Kickstart She Makes Comics

What I especially love about She Makes Comics is that it not only tells the history of women and comics, but allows those women to tell their own stories, too.

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Fairy Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves: Why Disney’s Tinker Bell Movies...

This heterogeneous female group of characters promote team spirit, tolerance and forgiveness.

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Rachel’s Problematic Faves

It's okay to like Problematic Things, but it is always worth acknowledging why they're Problematic.

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