Writea: Story of Writers: Listen to Criticism - Briana Lawrence and Jessica Walsh -
Woke up this morning to an interview being posted! You can check it out at the link!
Interview about our book together, “Seeking the Storyteller.”
This Wednesday, Marvel comics released All New Marvel Now #1 which featured the first super hero appearance of Kamala Khan, the new Ms Marvel who will be getting her own series next month. She is the first female Muslim character to receive her own series from either of the big companies, and because of this some people are saying this is all a stunt, that this is just something Marvel is doing to get attention. And you can say that all you want, but today two Muslim women who had never come into my store before came in and asked for the new book with Ms Marvel in it. We gave it to them and they started flipping through it and they both had the biggest smiles you could imagine on their faces. In fact I would describe both of them as being “giddy” even. So you can say its a stunt all you want, but end of the day thanks to the new Ms Marvel, those two ladies now have a super hero that they’re excited about, and that’s pretty awesome.
REPRESENTATION MATTERS
It really, really does.
It’s that feeling you get when you’re a young girl playing video games where you have to save the princess always or the entire cast of fighters is men… then suddenly Chun-Li is there in the roster.
It’s that feeling you get when you’re a young, black girl and you see a black lady shopping in a mall in the cartoon that looks cool and suddenly she transforms into Storm.
It’s that feeling of being the overweight kid but seeing women like Queen Latifah, plus sized, female rapper, actress, not seen as lazy or pathetic , but actually successful and beautiful.
It’s that feeling you get when you flip through a comic or watch a cartoon or anime or movie or whatever and a boy kisses a boy, or a girl kisses a girl, and it’s o.k. It’s quite all right. It’s fine.
It’s being thirty and cosplaying Tiana, and walking past the little black girl with her dad, and she stops and stares up at you. And you smile and you kneel down and you hug her. And her dad smiles at you.
Representation matters :)
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Anonymous asked: Why are Asian names so weird? I can't get into your book cause I keep thinking long duk dong from 16 candles and laughing.
OMG. Thank you for reminding me of the most awful racial stereotype in Hollywood movies since Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Thank you for reminding me of why my parents gave me an American name after having their Korean names mocked and ridiculed. Thank you for reminding me of all the similar racial crap I heard when I was trying to get my book published. Wow.
And now I shall wait for the next anonymous email complaining about how you aren’t a racist and how I’m over reacting.
There was a post a while back similar to this with black names. Or should I say “ghetto” names. You know? "La so and so" and whatnot? There was a post that went into the significance of such names but how they’ve been downgraded to this, “LOL Maury guest number 502 lookin’ for her baby daddy” status in our culture now. It was really interesting, sort of this moment of, “…. oh. Snap.”
True friendship is introducing your friends to Attack on Titan and watching them suffer.
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Anonymous asked: What is your opinion on these tumblr feminists?
I haven’t really run into any so I’m not sure what you mean? Is there something different with them versus a normal feminist? Because to me, feminism means being for equality for EVERYONE. Feminist (myself included) aren’t out to make the world dominated by women, which is what I think the stereotype is: that we hate men, and we are out to destroy them. I suppose these are called extreme feminists or… something?
But that’s not what we want. That’s not what feminism is about.
We want equality for everyone. Everyone should have the same rights regardless of gender, race, sexuality, and everything else :)
We’re also not out to tell women how they should live. I’ve seen some posts of groups like, going to fashion shows and messing with the models to spread their message and no, that’s not what feminism is. We’re for EQUALITY and CHOICE! A woman has a CHOICE in what she wants to do. If she wants to stay at home and be married and have children, fine. If she wants to go out and work, that’s fine too. Both of these are fine as long as it’s her decision. I don’t have any right to go to a woman and say, “Gasp, you should be working, don’t let this world oppress you by staying home,” when she WANTS to stay home. Hell, I want to stay home and write and craft and cosplay and have dinner ready for my wifey. That’s the choice I’m making, that doesn’t make me less of a woman.
So… if a tumblr feminist is someone who believes in equality for all and choice, then I’m cool with that. But if it’s someone who is harmful towards a group to reach their goal, then no, I’m not cool with that.
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xander6981 asked: Blab, Psst
Blab: Three secrets I’m keeping
Urm… I can’t actually really think of anything. Is that bad? I really can’t >.<
Psst: Three things that I’ve always wanted to tell you
1. You are one of the sweetest guys I know and I think anyone would be lucky to have you. I await for the day where some amazing guy finally sees how wonderful you are :)
2. I want you to cosplay. And you should. Like now.
3. Your opinion on the things I do means a lot to me :)
clairelaferret asked: You would be lovely cosplaying Elsa.
I still need to see Frozen ;__;
